<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358337" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rejection</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fear of rejection-<br>Despite the sunshine<br>And<br>California, dreams-<br>This place where snow never falls, and<br>The ocean exists just outside my back door-<br>This fear and aloneness <br>Not even a prayer would<br>Alleviate, <br>Although one day I met you<br>Walking barefooted in<br>The sunlight’s shadows –<br>A child of God you said you were and<br>That we are all God’s children-<br>Your hand outstretched <br>Reaching for mine- although<br>With some trepidation<br>I walked the path towards heaven<br>By your side as the rain fell-<br>Laughter was infectious, <br>I could feel my bare feet sinking into the<br>Muddy water, as we grew closer<br>Sharing the secrets of our wounded hearts, <br>Life, laughter and these peace filled moments had<br>Me believing I had found a friend in you-<br>It hardly mattered that the rain was falling hard<br>In this place where it hardly ever rained-<br>I would never be alone again…<br>Inside my small cracker box home<br>I would wait for your arrival, though<br>My thoughts, abruptly interrupted by<br>The harsh ringing of the telephone-<br>Life, laughter and peace-filled moments <br>Transformed to shattered hopes and phony expectations-<br>The God you had told me that answered everybody’s prayers-<br>Had different plans for you and I-<br>The hand that had so gratefully reached out to touch your soul<br>Took the wound of rejection, anger and deep disappointment -<br>The profuse bleeding was not the bleeding <br>From nails pounded into the hands of Christ crucified –<br>This God that you claimed had made so many promises, but<br>Was the bleeding of my wounded heart and wrist-<br>From that day on, I would never again repeat the words<br>“In God we trust” as<br>I had been betrayed by your false promises and<br>Forsaken by the God who walked with you-<br>I see blood in a puddle upon the <br>Kitchen floor, <br>Red contrasting rudely with the tile, stark white-<br>Hardly diluted by the tears of rejection <br>I had wept so copiously-<br>The rain has ceased to fall now and<br>The sun is shining again upon this land but<br>Not upon my inner space-<br>Here in my sanctuary, alone, <br>I cannot see the light of day-<br>California dreams have<br>Transformed to nightmares-<br>We are all God’s children, <br>As you had so faithfully said, but<br>I am a child of God who<br>Walks alone in the darkness<br>Towards the rising moon- and<br>They say only crazy people dance in the dark<br>When the moon is full-<br>The rain may have washed my tears away but inside of me <br>Lives an untrustworthy soul that<br>Will never reach heaven’s gates because<br>The God you walk with and in which you have <br>Placed your faith, in my mind does not exist-<br>Blinded by the bright sunlight, and<br>So angry at this world<br>I choose not to live in, I shall<br>Walk outside my back door towards the ocean, <br>Find a seashell and hold it to my ear to listen<br>To the waves roaring as<br>I walk barefooted in the sand alone-<br>Alone, being the only way I can exist-<br>You, God and the sun have not been true, and<br>Darkness had never seemed so beautiful as<br>I dance beneath the full moon during the midnight hours, as I <br>Converse with the voices that echo throughout my mind, <br>Locked behind the doors to my inner space forever, <br>Hidden behind the moonlight’s shadows <br>Perhaps a lost soul, though always dreaming…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Claudia+Krizay">Claudia Krizay</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358337" data-title="Rejection de Claudia Krizay" data-description="The fear of rejection- Despite the sunshine And California, dreams- This place where snow never falls, and The ocean exists just outside my back door- This fear and aloneness Not even a prayer would Alleviate, Although one day I met you Walking ..."></div> </div> </div>

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