Welcome to my Book and Poetry Page
Here is one poem from the book Illumination – a griever’s journey through the darkness
And so it seems our lives are not defined by joy alone.
But by magnitudes of loved ones lost.
Whose memories glow bright like specks of gold.
Cast to the sky by winds are caught.
We can hold our loves for a moment’s golden splendor.
But time will move that moment on.
The mind, a kaleidoscope of fragmented pieces.
Of hopes and dreams and laughter’s song.
Yet in that kaleidoscope of memory.
Sits heartbreak in the future lack.
Though joy would bring the heart to glory.
The loyal heart just wants them back.
- Shaleem Dzon
Kaleidoscope Of Memory
I invite you to enjoy three other poems that are not yet published.
Embedded In The Sorrow
It’s true, we don’t get to choose who we love
And we don’t get to choose when they die
And we don’t get to choose that we must
Find a way to someday say goodbye
And we don’t get to choose the pain we sustain
And we don’t get to choose all the love that remains
And we don’t get to simply have the grief go away
Because grief so often over welcomes its stay
Yet embedded in the sorrow
Of broken hearts at sea
Is a distant shore of tomorrow
Whose crossing yet shall be
And gathering up those pieces
Of peace still left behind
There is a sense of moving forward
Into a new self we must define
And what is moving forward
But a soul whose growth shall glean
That love is worth the price of grief
In mourning’s mirrored light is seen
- Shaleem Dzon
What Advice
What advice could possibly bring grace to those shattered moments when grief has come and left a vacancy where love once dwelt?
And grief is not polite. For grief does not just leave an empty place, grief leaves behind the wreckage of broken hearts.
How to speak grace into that pain which cannot be undone or speak strength into the work that must now be accomplished?
And yet, like the hero of any good story, we know that it is going to take time, which means patience. And it is going to take facing fears, which means courage. And it is going to take planting seeds of new hopes and dreams, which means faith.
When there is no other option but to walk the road of grief, then the best we can do is walk it well. And this means with self- tenderness, remembrance, and determination.
And if we walk this road with authenticity, and if we choose not to repress all the pain, then we will begin to find light in the darkness as we adjust to the life changing change.
What advice could possibly bring grace? Perhaps it is as simple as this.
Believe there is potency within all this love that we have for the ones that we miss.
- Shaleem Dzon
And Who Shall Care For The Lost Souls
And who shall care for the lost souls when the tide rolls back from noon
And the place where his footprint was left on the shore is washed by a sorrowful moon
And who shall notice the way sand reflects starlight on shards of broken dreams
After they have been tossed by ocean currents and lay illuminated in her beams
And what if everyone’s pain really did matter, in the hum of a billion minds
That every ounce of suffering we feel has a purpose in the kaleidoscope of time
Perhaps the mournful ones will care for the lost souls, in a place called
Life After Loss Land
Where pain like rocks tossed to the sea
Get worn down to a fine white sand
Perhaps they will gather the bones of broken dreams and put them to rest in a sycamore tree
To sway with the breeze and move through time in the grace of loves tranquility
For diamond hearts found in our midst are shaped in sorrows call
That as our loss transforms to dawn, finds meaning after all
- Shaleem Dzon
