Shattered by Debbie Richard

You promised to come, yet

I wait, poised, on this chair

as minutes tick by silently, 

like a grandfather’s clock

which has been broken –

also forgotten, discarded.

Those hands once moved,

as each sway of the pendulum

marked a promise 

filled with hope.

Now, my hands are folded, 

as still as the broken clock.

Can my heart be repaired?

Debbie Richard is listed in the Directory of Poets & Writers as both a poet and creative nonfiction writer. Poems have appeared in Torrid Literature Journal, Scarlet Leaf Review, Halcyon, and others. A chapbook, “Resiliency,” was published in 2012 and a memoir, “Hills of Home,” was released in 2014.  www.debbierichard.com