Pema's Poetry

Brick Walls

Brick walls that I’ve made surround me

I live in a tower I’ve built,

Nobody has ever broken it down

and nobody ever will,

You can the try to break it by making me sad,

but I’m already fucking miserable,

You can try to break it by making me cry

but I’m already used to the sound of my tears,

Only one way to fix me

Only one way to save my dark soul

Only one way to break these walls

and the defenses I hold,

These walls only break,

from the force of the tenderest touch,

from love so pure and so strong

but there is nothing as such,

But If you kiss me sweet

and shield me from the storm

If you hold me close 

and be my home

If you love me deep

and share my pain

then only will these brick walls break

so that I can start breathing again.