"Change We Choose"

The worst questions asked...

Are the ones that go unanswered...

The eyes that do not see

Is the mind that does not grow or understand

The mind that does not learn

Carries the heart with no room to feel or embrace...

I'm sorry that you would rather live in the darkness

Than stand beside me in the light

We are the change we choose

And the actions we take

Our mistakes are just that...

No other being helped us make, aid, or perpetuate them in any way...

So go ahead...

Its your every right to claim that your broken

But just because you are miserable with your wrong life choices made

Does not entitle or give you permission to make me feel bad about mine

Along with all the decisions I've gotten right.

© 2016

"Words of a Scandal"

If only you knew the true devastation of your words

Such scandal can be bred from every single utterance

Because with you, there is no such thing as face value fairness

Common human respect takes a back seat to your one man traveling show

The need for an audience is put before humanity...

And here you are, once again, letting your lips slip and fumble

Spinning your latest web of travesty

How tactless do the words spill from your mouth

Like acid rain they fall

Burning the tender flesh of all those who are caught out in the rain

You claim the secret is in the telling...

Everything is a forgery...

They are nothing more than hollow words

Followed by microscopic thoughts that are left abandoned to grow in the darkness

And drift in time...

Like every raindrop that falls from the sky

They all must hit solid ground

Unaware to you, all of these words have spread

Like a raging river flowing fast after a thunderous storm

It consumes all innocent victims within its path

There is no stopping the traveling intensity

Along the way many more seeds of controversy have been planted

If you would only take a single second and find a realization within the wake that you leave behind

From birth you gave it continuous life

Now, it has grown beyond any imaginable complexities

It has become a self-sustaining entity

There is no stopping it now

But to you, this is just a passing thought

No matter what it means.

© 2016

"Written With Change"

I am standing upon the edge of my world

Looking out at all the rest

Surrounded by all the knowing

The truth finally found

The lies unearthed

Convictions standing strong

Eyes fixed

Emotions torn

And a decision made

Here is the marker in time

Where knowledge becomes power

Love turns to a stranger lost

Struggling for a conclusion made

Words fall short along with a helpless sigh

Tears fear to fall

Would sadness be seen as betrayal in the eyes of anger?

Or is this just another moment that one has to live through?

Here upon the stepping stone of change

I find myself...

Drawing upon the great fountain of words within me

Yet rendered speechless at my tongue

Pain is the emotion that reminds us that we are alive

And real...

Making this the purest realization made

That sometimes when all things fail

The only thing left is silence.

© 2016

"Illuminations"

Bathed in moonlight

My eyes trace out the beacons lit by stars

Silhouettes of the world around me gather

Whispers of cloud dot the sky

With one hand held within another

I recall the memories past

The footsteps behind me linger

Tracing my path

The twists and bends of every day life

And my journey here

To this moment in time

And reflection...

© 2016