Monday, 24 June 2019

"Creating Space"



Some things in life we will walk alone with
Others can be there, listening...
Because in those moments...
The only thing they can do is hold and curate space
This is our path to take
Life reminds us of this by putting us here
Our own path, taken at our own pace and time
All of us are the bad in some else's story told
Communication is the key
Distance does not create true separation
Silence does...
We grow and we learn
The person we were yesterday is not the same person we are today
Because it may not all be about the destination
Maybe its the continuous journey in existing every day
By standing in the light and being seen for who you are
A heart of pain...
Raw wounds...
A lesson etched into the senses...
You will come to your peace
And carry that remembrance within memories
The heart strings that beat with the pulse of life remind us of this
When memory fails, place your hand to your heart
The greatest reason and purpose is found there
Despite all else, life is motion forward
We define our own worth
And we are certainly worth more than these moments then, here and now
If it lifts you up and helps you keep walking
Then maybe its just exactly what you need
Because somethings we never truly move on from...
We just move through it
A residue remains...
Washed away by tears or the years passed...
So please, be gentle with yourself
I like you, am doing the best that we can
Remember that its courageous to remain strong and kind in a sometimes cruel and dark world
And that we can't help everyone...
But everyone can help some one...



© 2019

Monday, 17 June 2019

"You Learn"



There are moments...
Many counted...
Treasured, remembered, and forgotten
Lessons in life are plenty
Someone is always the student, another the teacher
You learn this as the years go by
People enter our lives
Helping us brave the storm
Bringing us so much light and love
Others, create the dark storm clouds and the tears that rain...
Leaving tainted fingerprints that slowly fade
You learn that we are not the sum of peoples poor choices made
That closure to some wounds only ever arrives years later
Long after you stop searching for it...
That the finality you once so desperately sought...
Came and went without a single notice...
No fanfare or epiphany called out
Maybe it was at an odd moment
In a random smile of goodness
So large that the corners trailed off the side of your face
If a smile was a hug, it would be this
Or maybe it was as you laughed
Laughing a laugh that is unapologetically yours
And it hits...
The realization dawned
That you are grateful for goodbye's
Because some have to be said
You learn this...
That life is motion forward
Your past doesn't need you anymore, your future does...
Existence in all this life that has been carried with you till now
Holding and curating space
You learn...
That a person's behavior towards you
Has more to do with their own internal struggles
Than it ever did with you...
Is when you will find peace
And you learn grace.


© 2019

Monday, 10 June 2019

"Worthy of Existence"




We are here...
Some of us are lucky enough to be found
While others are still searching
Sifting through reflected times passed
Or forever holding onto those things that once held us still
The moments of life have brought us here
We treasure those memories we deem worthy
Forgotten are those that have soured our taste within life
We are not the darkness that attempts to seep into the corners of our daily living
We are more...
We are worthy of this endeavor
Because believing can lead to conviction
We have written so much already within in our history
Some pages carry more than we can ever handle
The heaviness of burden weighs upon us
Adding to the many lessons already learned...
We are never to old or young to be the student or the teacher
Every person who enters our life brings us light
But not every soul was meant to stay and walk with us
Not every promise to be present is loyal
Some only leave their mark of inspiration
Others leave a scar that tears cannot wash away
Making their only purpose to exist... and exit...
To show us an example of what to avoid the next time
Because a single lie discovered...
Is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed
If you push a trusted person away, to that final moment of ending
You will not find them where you left them in abandonment
As if they were awaiting for your return
People have big hearts
With an undeniable large capacity to care
Friendship and love should not be treated as a convenience
The heart is not a game to be played with
We are not sacrifices to judgment passed
And if an apology is all that you have left
One must to their best to give it
Fill up your words and make them anything but empty
Making them louder than your hurt and disrespect ever was...



© 2019

Monday, 3 June 2019

"Shades and Colour"



It starts with a thought
A seed planted
That grows into a wish
Eyes watch with intensity
Every motion
A smile...
The lightest of touch
All begin to draw the scene played out
Start to become those moments that mean more than the time they hold
Eagerness pushes the heart
Footsteps lead
Hope holds tightly to embraced hands
Shades turn to colour
Giving definition to something that did not have a name
Yet questions remain
Is the image seen the same?




© 2019