Rachel Bentley, STONE BY STONE

I have a wall you cannot see

Because it's deep inside of me.

It blocks my heart on every side

And helps emotions there to hide.

You can't reach in;

I can't reach out.

You wonder what it's all about.

The wall I built that you can't see

Results from insecurity.

Each time my tender heart was hurt

The scars within grew worse and worse.

So stone by stone

I built a wall

That's now so thick it will not fall.

Please understand that it's not you;

Continue trying to break through.

I want so much to show myself,

And love from you will really help;

So bit by bit

Chip at my wall

'Til stone by stone it starts to fall.

I know the process will be slow;

It's never easy to let go

Of hurts and failures long ingrained

Upon one's heart from years of pain.

I'm so afraid

To len you in;

I know I might get hurt again.

I try so hard to break the wall,

But seem to get nowhere at all.

For stone upon each stone I've stacked,

And left between them not a crack.

The only way

To make it fall

Is imperfections in the wall.

I did the best I could to build

A perfect wall, but there are still

A few small flaws, which are the key

To breaking through the wall to me.

Please use each flaw

To cause a crack,

To knock a stone off of the stack.

For just as stone by stone was laid

With every hurt, with every pain,

So stone by stone the wall will break

As love replaces every ache.

Please be the one

Who cares enough

To find the flaws, no matter what.

(nádherná báseň, ktorú si vybrala moja spolužiačka na Hviezdoslavov kubín.. ale nikde som ju nemohla nájsť po slovensky.. tak len in english..:) )

Komentáre

iWon napísal(a)…
Som tu asi dlho nebola, ked to tu mas take vynovene, ze... ?:) Ale krasne to tu mas!
Suzy Guru napísal(a)…
tak to teda poriadne dlho.. lebo uz to tu mam tak aspon mesiac.. ak nie dlhsie.. ale dakujem:)
Pauli napísal(a)…
jeeej, "kaameň po kaameniiii.." (p.prof.Rejdovjanová:)
Suzy Guru napísal(a)…
no veru:) velmi sa mi pacila ta basen.. vsak Baska mi uz aj slubila, ze mi ju prefoti po slovensky.. tak mozno aj tu slovensku verziu sem vycapim:)