Lena's Timeless Treasures

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Poem: One Day Without You

I’m lying here in the silence

Staring at the stains on the wall

The right side of the bed is empty

I’m waiting here for your return

It’s only one day here without you

And yet it feels likes weeks have passed

What will I do till you resurface

How will I fill my empty day

I wish the sun was peeking through

But all I see are skies of gray

The rain is drumming against the windows

Masking the tears on my face

The wafting breeze is fairly warm

And yet I feel a chill pass through me

Because it seems you’re really gone

And I’m left here without you now

But are you gone

Or are you still here

Won't know for sure

Till tomorrow appears

Written June 10, 2025

Monday, June 2, 2025

Poem: Bittersweet Surprise

The last time I saw you
Was when I tied the knot
The last thing I expected
Was to be by your plot

And yet there you were

Your face behind black

Your hollow eyes locked

Into mine for a sec

I stood there frozen

Lyrics engraved on your stone
The notes beneath them
Your voice mine alone

I hummed to myself

These words to be true
It was a wonderful world

On the day I met you

You're forever the music

That sings from your soul
Always here you'll be
Even though you are gone

The mark that you left

On the day of my bliss

Is something I treasure

Is something I miss

A bittersweet surprise

To see you once more

Surrounded by many

Yet not on the dance floor

Your face a reminder

That the end is unknown

So we must live each day

Like there is no tomorrow

Perhaps I will dance

Through life once again

The way that I did

When I danced with my man

Written June 1 - June 2, 2025

Monday, February 24, 2025

Poem: The Middle of Nowhere

In the middle of nowhere

Far from the main road

A girl hides

From a relationship gone cold

A prisoner of his words

Her heart an empty shell

She makes up lies

To cover up the pain

She doesn’t want to be

In the middle of nowhere

She wants to be in a place

Where her heart is whole

She can’t even trust herself

To make the right choices

At this moment in time

So who can she trust?

To get her back to the main road

To a life she used to have

Before it was ruined

By the one she thought was the one

Written February 23, 2025

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Poem: My Life

I don't have what it takes to make it

No matter how much I try to fake it

There’s this feeling and I can’t shake it

And this fear I just can’t break it

It’s crazy

It’s hazy

It’s not that I’m lazy

I’m just like a daisy

Can’t make up my mind

My life’s undefined

I’m falling behind

Keep hitting rewind

Instead of fast forward

And me moving onward

It seems I’ve gone toward

A life of a coward

Instead of progressing

I’m constantly stressing

And hope for a blessing

Don’t want to be guessing

I’m falling, I’m sorry

I’m making you worry

One moment of glory

I’ll rewrite my story

It may take a while

To dig through the pile

But life is a trial

And filled with denial

You take it

You break it

And you fake it

Till you make it

Written February 4, 2025

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Poem: Words Unseen

I fill an empty page

With words from the heart

Only to have them be invisible

To those that scroll through their feed

My words unseen

They may as well not exist

Written May 28, 2024

Monday, December 19, 2022

I am tired of this place
And my mere existence
I'm tired of pretending
Like things will be different
I don't have it in me
To change what is happening
There is no more spark
Or the drive to do anything
So here I find myself
Inside these four walls again
Letting the days go by
Not really living life
What is the point then
When all the hope is gone
Maybe the time has come
For me to say so long
To the one that doesn't try
To spread her wings and fly

Written December 19, 2022

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Poem: My Eyes Deceive Me

I look toward the bar
And see you standing there
With short gray hair and glasses
Shocked at the sight of you

I quickly look away
Thinking I've imagined you
But when I turn back around
You are still there
Not moving an inch

How can this be
You are supposed to be down below
With your beloved parents
And yet here you are
Gracing me with your presence

I have the sudden urge to approach you
To say hello
To give you a hug I've been yearning for
But then you turn your face toward me
And that's when I realize that it isn't you
But a stranger that resembled you in the distance

Oh how my eyes deceive me
Into thinking you are still here
When you are nowhere to be found

Perhaps this is a sign
But I wonder what it means
To think you are standing there
When it's not really you

Written November 15, 2022