I have a secret garden, deep within this heart of mine

A place I go to dream, where all of my hopes of happiness will come true in  their own perfect time. 

Its a secret garden known only to me, where all my fragile illusions are safe form prying eyes, or hurtful words said with kindness in disguise.

This is where I hide, here within its walls, when the hurt, the pain of shattered dreams can scream out, like a roaring angry sea, yet no one can hear, or see the torrent of tears that fall.

Dreams, hopes, plans are so fragile, a snowflake, or a wisp of smoke, seen, felt, but if touched, destroyed. And love, felt, yet impossible to explain fully, just as fragile, yet like a bold of lightning or a roaring fire that can destroy us with it's  intensity .

Yes, I come to my secret garden, more times than anyone knows. Sometimes to dream, sometimes to heal, but always to hide, when  I am unable or unwilling to share in fear of ridicule or rejection. 

My Secret Garden, is my refuge from life's storms, my place of imperturbability when dreams, hopes, illusions are destroyed. I must come here to hide and heal

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~Hope is a Thing With Feathers~

Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings a tune without words
And never stops at all.

And sweetest, in the gale, is heard
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That keeps so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea
Yet, never, in extremity
It ask a crumb of me.

~Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)~