Never Discarded, Never Unloved

Never Discarded, Never  Unloved  10^th June 2021 ©

By

Michael Casey

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

You were loved before you were even born

 

You were supported even when you thought you were all alone

 

Don’t on your luck, or flat on your back

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

Battered and Bleeding, your thoughts swimming against the tide

 

Ashamed and rushing for somewhere to hide

 

Rage and Anger boiling inside

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

Broken and on the scrapheap, only seeing defeat

 

Clothes torn and soiled, worse than any child

 

Tears falling like a waterfall to nowhere

 

You cower and hide under the stairs

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

You spiral ever downwards, despair like a comfy chair

 

You sit in it, you bury yourself in it

 

You wish you could fall down the back of the sofa

 

To hide your despair, being sat upon like a chair

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

You are down in the pit, the darkness everywhere

You are battered and broken, wanting to hide

 

There is no hope, there is no light, and worse

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

And on the circle, the big dipper goes

 

You are a passenger on a circus ride, your heart lost inside

 

You are not in charge, you are glued to despair

 

On and on you ride, an empty husk

 

Like a baby abandoned in a wicker basket

 

About to go over the waterfall

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

Then the love, from Prayers and Family

 

And from the scruffiest of nurses brings you back

 

You are in the pit, the very darkest bottom of it

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

It’s a long hard journey back

 

To trust again, to love again

 

You comb your hair again

 

You smile again, you’re not so timid any more

 

The wolf has been tamed, you are no longer

 

Hiding in your little red hiding hood

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

The sun appears, it pushed back your fears

Timid smiles, and little laughs crack the darkness

 

Of your face, the sunshine appears on your lips

 

You even dance and sway your hips

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

Slowly confidence, replaces apprehension

 

You learn to live again, to smile again

 

The clouds in your heart are blown gently away

 

The storm of sadness has been quelled

 

The dark glasses have been replaced with sunshine

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

So, on it goes, sometimes backwards a step

 

But now your mind and heart and soul

 

Is on the future, you have climbed out of the pit

 

And now as you walk away from it

 

It is being forgotten and filled in

 

Life and Laughter demolish it

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

So, remember you were always loved

 

Even if you could not see it

 

From before you were born you were loved

 

First by  your mother, and even afterwards

 

When she was not there

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved

 

You were always loved

 

Love is eternal, so from the first spark

 

Of Creation itself, there is the wealth of Love

 

And people still pray for you after you are gone

 

Love, laughter and memories carry on

 

All Creation carries on, one generation after another

 

We look forward to our Futures, never forgetting the past

 

We have climbed out of the bog, and through the fog

 

To form family and creation

 

For Love really does conquer all

 

We are all, no matter how bad or sad

 

Never Discarded, Never Unloved.

me in my prime maybe 17 years ago, my Crowne Plaza NEC look