Her life is like a puzzle

Like a dizzying maze

So complex, so paradoxical

Hard to figure

Where it's going

Never an easy way out

Does she really want out

Or rather find her safe haven

Inside, whereby she can curl up

Like an unborn child

Safe in tacked

In her mother's womb

Where nothing can go wrong

Sometimes she wants to scream

To the God of the Universe

Why me, why me

Don't you think

I had enough

But she won't dare

For He has been kind

She keeps her faith

Unbroken and stalwart

She would rather weep

Hoping her tears reach the Heavens

She's a Rock

But she opted not to fight

Instead she embraces death

Her choice to escape

The chaos of the mind and heart

She welcomes impugning energies

To freely run through her being

Thrashing deep

She preferred to bleed

Allowing everything to flow

Till she's drained and empty

Purging every grain of memories

To a deep slumber

Perhaps never to wake

Her untended heart

A runaway, she retreats

Into the abyss of solitude

Her comfort zone of peace.

By Cynthia Fonacier Capunitan

Harbor City, California, USA

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