Taking one step at a time,
the world seeming big
my courage small.
Do I dare chance
feeling the pain?
Do I put myself out there
when I know what awaits me?
My heart is barely healed
yet I cannot bear the silence alone.
So I take one step into the unknown,
put my heart in jeopardy.
Try to relearn how to live,
how to breathe without you.
Days, years, of darkness
the sun is bright.
I shy away,
fear holding me back
from what I know I need to do.
A warm hand,
a gentle smile
and I know I am not alone.
My pain shared
with knowledge bittersweet.
My heart forever pieces missing
I will survive,
I will go on.
True love a distant memory,
never forgotten
yet not impossible.
One step at a time
until we meet again.
~ © 2013 Heidi Barnes for It Happened at Sunrise One Christmas Morn
This was inspired by a story I am writing from a free write. If you would like to follow the story you can go here to read the chapter 1 of It Happened at Sunrise one Christmas Morn. I will post chapters as I write them. This will be the rough draft. Depending on how things go I will publish the final draft on Kindle.
There is another story there, Forever Lost, that started the same way. As I am polishing it up I am learning more so the final draft will be a bit different the rough draft on my site.
To See What I See 
This is really amazing … the emotion is so deep … waiting for chapter 2!
Thank you. Working on it. 🙂
Will try to be patient … 🙂
I am glad that the story will continue. This is great place to work out the rough drafts of a story. I ended up writing a short story from Kellie’s FWF back in July. Not sure what the next step is but I tremendous encouragement during the process. Others in the book world have also given advice after reading it. Who knows where it may land in 2014?
If I can figure out how to put the pages under one heading I may post this one here too. So far the prices has alluded me.