Poems and Poetry: It Slammed Into Me Like Hurricane
I've Waited For you For Long
After what a loved one did to me
My emotion started to shut down
I erected walls around my heart
I thought were unsalable
I spent my every waking moment
Picking up the pieces of my life
I’d denied emotion for many years
But I almost hadn’t recognized it
When it had slammed into me
With the force of a hurricane
Love was rarely logical
Sometimes love was by choice
And the other times it wasn’t
Sometimes it fell on a man
Like a ton of bricks whether he
Wanted it or not.
Until now I’d been seeing everything
In black and white, and now there’s
Color all around; it seemed
I’d been waiting for you all my life.