"Where Feet May Fall"

Moments reverberate through memories...

The heart beat of life...

Each footstep taken...

And the others awaiting the bravery to fall

There are days with a meaning

Where remembrance is bitter and true

It's a line in everyone's story

A page or two beyond description

What we receive and what we give is the difference we make

Do you regret all the chances not taken?

Do you live with the weight of it all?

Will you let that which holds you back propel you forward?

Or let it be the chain holding you to yesterday?

We choose to embrace...

To pass..

Or to behold all moments, no matter how fleeting

Our difference is the difference

Ignorance is not bliss

Knowledge keeps us wanting more

Perfection is perspective

The limit of potential is a decision made

Our hands will always hold the other one

It's the realization in existence

That regardless of all else

You are here...

Fear everything and run

Or face everything and rise

Take the road where your heart joins you

Meet the sunrise with gratitude

You are enough...

You are everything to someone

And have everything to give to life.

© 2020

"Days Gone Quiet"

In these moments...

Where our world stands still...

We realize the true meaning of time...

Each breath bridges into the next

Eyes outline the structure around us

Steady and firm we exist...

With our feet out in front of us

Our mind takes photographs

Filing them deep within the resting place of our memories

Listening to sounds of the voices of the ones we love

The taste of life once accelerated...

Now seemingly paused...

When the days have gone quiet

Till we hear the true heartbeat of life

Breathe...

We are more than this

If you over analyze...

You become paralyzed...

So, we do it in spite of it all

Let the fragrant passion flow

From dreams to waking moments

Life will always roar

But truth lives...

Our ability to find beauty and peace in the midst of it all

To embrace care over deception

To not be a slave to fear

We will recognize this for what it truly is

And allow ourselves a reprieve

We will look to the dark places...

With our fiercest conviction

And say...

Not today

Because yesterday is already gone...

And tomorrow is yet to be.

© 2020

"From This Day"

Early morning sunshine breaks in silence...

Embraced by the day anew

Reviving life that paused within the darkness

Steps forward on this path planted

From this day till tomorrow

Some falter...

Slipping into the deep end

Numbed by the cold and empty

Shadows of what should have been...

Could have been..

And what will never be...

Its okay to be a afraid

We have what it takes

Breath deep...

Let the wave of change wash over you

We are human

Learning...

We all run from the wind and thunder

Yet, dance in the rain

It's these patchwork moments

Making us who we are

We walk alongside one another on this journey

Vulnerable to weakness...

And even with the deepest of yearning

We cannot fix it all...

We are not our mistakes

Yesterday is gone

Today is to be existed

And tomorrow remains to be...

To keep the door open...

To leave the light on...

And to keep trying...

By loving ourselves and others...

The best way we can.

© 2020

"Stand Up Again"

How flawed are we?

That some of us preach perfection...

By only repeating the definition...

Who is pulling your strings?

Making you dance to a tune you do not want to hear

Stepping to the left...

When you want to go to the right...

Standing in judgment

An invisible tightening to reality

Choking the air with pain

Allowing the voice inside you to silently cry...

All is okay to them...

As long as the puppet follows...

And does not lead...

The energy you keep

Is the energy you put out into this world

The heart does what the mind sometimes does not understand

But know this...

We are who we are

Make the best with peace

We are more than a list of contradictions

It's fact, not fiction

We are existence...

But why do we continue to fall?

To learn how to stand up again

Till we realize we are enough

We are our own person

Good...

With hope and intention

A being living...

Beyond all that has come before this moment

And that which has trespassed against us

To be the best of our ability, not others

The worth is in the trying

And maybe it's not happily-ever-after

But it's happy, after everything else.

© 2020

"Burden Of Truth"

The softness of darkness...

Embraced smooth...

Allowing the knife to cut deep

Only because the fingers holding it...

Was that of a person loved...

Thoughts confined

Questions yearning for answers

Breaking all the rules of the heart

Eyes failed to see the true depths

Of something that was never there

Because actions could not convey the true burden

Of sharp and jagged words

Concealed behind false intentions

Of an image of the most beautiful thing never seen

Heart beats and footsteps

Fighting for a dream never coming true

Sounds in silence warned

True intentions not given

Caution lingered in the soul for good cause

Weighted by the burden of fear

Calloused are the weary palms for holding on to tightly

All for something never had...

To almost abandon one soul to find another

Is the cruelest of convictions

Putting a mind at war...

Leaving no room for humanity

It's history used to cause another to loose...

The entirety of their being

For another to love them.

© 2020