Do You Know? Really, I want to know...

How does it happen?

How do you lose your way?

How does one day up in heaven 

Feel like hell another day?

Is it all real?

Is it all true?

Do you just keep on fighting?

Or subside to feeling blue?

One day I was so happy.

Loving me, being true.

Now I feel so lonely.

Alone without a clue.

I try to fight it off.

Masquerading all the pain.

But down deep inside

I feel it rise again.

How does my world

Butterflies and Flowers

Wither away slowly

Losing all its powers?

Will I find my way again?

Is it all just a ride?

Do I just give into it?

And take it all in stride?

Should I learn to live with it?

Squeeze all my lemons dry?

Do what I've learned best?

And hold in all my cries?

How does it happen?

How do you lose your way?

How does one day up in heaven 

Feel like hell another day?

Do you know?  Really, I want to know...

                                                        ~A poem by Mayra Alonso