Love Within Poem By Sue Ellson Full text at https://sueellson.com/blog/love-within-poem Tick Tick Tick The time bomb ticks Tick Tick Tick It gets louder Tick Tick Tick It sounds closer Tick Tick Tick It fades as I forget Just for a moment, my years of regret My trauma of torment Tick Tick Tick It gets louder again Triggered by a word Unknowingly said Tick Tick Tick The sound of life The sound of death The sound of time Counted in breaths Tick Tick Tick In blindness I defend The undefendable In awareness I pretend I know what’s possible Tick Tick Tick Here I sit In wretched pain Just waiting for the time bomb To go off again Tick Tick Tick To pause for a moment To feel the pain It feels like I am trapped In endless rain Tick Tick Tick For emotions trapped Within my heart Cursed by addictions I continually start Tick Tick Tick Please stop that tick I feel so sick Put that time bomb away It is causing affray Tick Tick Tick My heart continues to beat Fast then slow As I allow for flow Tick Tick Tick I slowly release Just one small regret Without objection Tick Tick Tick One kind remark Can light a spark Of the fuse within But this is not a bomb It’s love not sin Tick Tick Tick Let that love release Change that tick to a beat Create a rhythm for walking The path that I seek Beat Beat Beat I resist the move But it makes me groove Beat Beat Beat It hurts to feel It hurts to seek More online...