You’re always singing, yet I always cry. You can dance while I always fall.
Why do you seem so happy and graceful while I feel like nothing at all?
As the years have gone by you’ve always been there.
To let me cry on you shoulder, my burdens you share.
It seems like a dream when you gently pull me to my feet.
I’m afraid to dream; to suffer yet another defeat.
Your hand lifts my face but I still I lower my eyes.
As you set a gentle kiss upon my brow, I finally realize
My eyes look into yours and there are no recriminations that I see.
Just a warm and gentle love you have wanted to share with me.
In your eyes I’m not bound by the past nor defeated by shame. I’m free.
To you I am beautiful and graceful; that’s what your heart sees when it looks at me.
You begin to dance, my feet follow gracefully as we float across the dance floor.
You begin to sing; my voice joins in to catch on the wind and beautifully they soar.
You are happy and now so am I.
Our spirits have joined; in unison they fly.
Kay L. Schlagel
I'm very proud to say this peom won the first prize..a blue ribbon at the Holistic Junction poetry contest for the weekly contest Love's Illumination theme.
Kay's an adult survivor of severe child abuse. She is a retired RN who was diagnosed with MPD/DID, PTSD, depression,diabetes, trigeminal neuralgia, narcolepsy and chronic pain disorders (a complication from child abuse). She retired from nursing in 1990 and now works at home. She has excellent doctors and with some help she enjoys a good life.
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About Me
- Kay L. Schlagel
- I was only 22 at the time I wrote this book. It took alot of time and healing to finally publish it. I wasn't cured. Unfortunately it's never quite that simple in the real world. It definitely changed my life for the better and set me on a path of self-discovery. Alot has changed since then with finding more alters,with more memories..etc. They are all amazing and they are all uniquely a part of me. Some painted self-portraits of themselves. It really was and is the journey that makes the goal worthwhile. I write children's fiction and am working on my 7TH book. I freelance self-help articles on health topics and have sold and won a few awards for my poetry. I'm a moderator at publisher database forums for writers who wish to become professional writers. I'm a professional artist. I am proficient in oils,acrylics, and some digital painting programs. I can honestly say at the age of 46 I am the most content and happy with my life than I have ever been. I'm always anxious to see what lies around the next corner.
Links
My art can be seen at wwww.artwanted.com/mdmkay and it will soon be available through our gallery at www.jdkimports.com. If you find a print that you are interested in purchasing there is contact information on both sites.