HELLO
Here am I
All alone
A sea of people everywhere
My eyes cast down upon the stones
A path I always bear
No one ever sees me
No one calls my name
Days go by with silent tears
Always just the same
Happiness is not a friend
Too special that for me
My time here on the treadmill’s end
Suffer, suffer, suffering
My tears well and go unseen
By all the passersby
Harder each and every day
In bed, each night I cry
Why has this life forbidden me
To find all a soul can seek
Alone am I in this great big world
Blinded eyes don’t see
My hearts dried up and dead
The sun arises every morning
For me it’s always filled with dread
Solitude, lifeless, boring
Out there on the sidewalk
Amid the silhouettes I grieve
Inward crashing oceans writhe
To crush and drown and seethe
Have I come to the stopping point
A wall of truth be known
Time ticks on its faithful path
My way is lost and gone
The shuddering breaks through from their depths
A chasm I never knew
Screaming inward tearing loose
The threads that kept me glued
Stuck in place to suffer more
And more and more and more
Abhorrent demons leave the lair
Attack me until I’m torn
To capture and to hold in place
While I in my abandonment
Head down again to lose the race
My broken heart is sediment
Here now comes a searing light
Squinted yet my closed eyes see
Beheld within a valid sight
Transfixed in wonder
Blood rushing through me
A feeling I’ve never known
Looking into the eyes of love
Broken is my heart of stone
As I stand there gazing
I feel the pain
Like nothing I’ve felt before
Looking for my reflection to see
In broken mirrors on the floor
Who is the stranger there in the glass
Unfamiliar the look on that face
As the muscles in my jaws hurt strangely
There is a smile of sovereign grace
White light blinding
I feel the presence
That I once knew as a child
Hindered no longer by the awkward soldier
Who filled my cup with vile
Emptied now and thrown away
Never to be held again
My hands are free
My eyes can see
The love buried deep within
Morning breaks in all its glory
Clean and fresh a brand-new start
I cannot seem to wipe this smile
That springs up from my heart
God has reached out His hand
And touched this mortal being
People see me for the very first time
And they smile too in seeing
Never have I told my name
Not ever reached out before
Hindered by the fright within
Closed that solid door
No longer journey I alone
A new path lay before me
Open eyes see all there is
In a world that used to ignore me
Consciously I extend my hand
To a stranger passing by
Resurrection upon my reflection
They smile without knowing why
Hello, my name is…
Kevin Parish 
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