Worrying
The imprints of the world’s worst sorrows
Are laid across your wearied face like
Jagged cracks along a porcelain mask.
Ragged lines drawn by time’s cruel hand
Are deepened by stories of anguish and strife.
Storm clouds trouble your toilworn mind,
Black thoughts darken your wavering soul.
A multitude of angry words and foul deeds
Weigh heavily upon your gentle spirit,
Dragging you down into a sea of despair.
Climb aboard a tempest-tossed ship.
Let tattered sails carry you far away
From the dreadful land of nightmares.
Drop your anchor in a brighter port
And leave your sombre sadness behind.
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Authors: Richard H. Fay. Form: Poem. Length: 15 lines. Editor who accepted this story: Previous Editors. Reprint History: Skyline Magazine, Autumn 2007
Author Bio
Richard H. Fay is a published artist, illustrator, poet, and writer of non-fiction, as well as an amateur medievalist, folklore nut, fan of classic speculative literature, and avid reader of true tales of the supernatural and the unexplained.
Abandoned Towers Content: Cosmic Journey Demons of the Dark Nebula Galactic Road Trip Gothic Window Holiday on Phreetum Prime Infiltration Mother Earth’s Children Nanomite 323 Purple Rain Selected Scifaiku Sorcerous Evolution Speculative Poetry: Past, Present, and Future Temporal Crack The Banshee’s Cry The Birth of Sentience on Aggraboth V The Era of Faeries and Dragons The Faces The Haunted Isle The Maginot Line They’ve Come for me Again Things in the Swamp West Dingleton’s Loss of Humanity When Wizards Dream at Night Worrying
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