"Somewhere in Time"

Thoughts examine the difference...

Time remembers...

But it also forgets...

Shading and rounding off the once sharp corners that use to dig into our skin

Old tears have dried, leaving their stains

New ones begin, washing clean what needs to be

There is this odd balance that remains unseen

A push and pull keeping us

What purpose does this contain?

Is the reason a lesson?

Or is it a pivoting point where we change?

Our direction of feet moving forward is the choice taken

Because there is only so much the human body can carry

The deep hurt left abandoned within will burn within our blood

Raging like a storm and consuming the point of view forward

Decisions tend to make us before we make them

So before the burden becomes too much

Work your way through the heaviness

Releasing that which no longer serves your soul well

How do you wish to live?

Recognize that this is existence

Honesty bears equality

Truth always seeks the light

Make amends with yourself by healing the scars of the past

Allowing forgiveness to be embraced

We are humanity defined...

It's what keeps us everyday

A hand held and another reaching out

Somewhere in time comes this moment of revelation

From a footstep chosen and an act taken

Within this reality we are given

Becomes our survival for every tomorrow.

© 2023

"Truth in Living"

 

Morning breaks...

Sunshine reaches to the corners where darkness hides...

Through this your point of view is found...

This reflection is realized...

May we finally stop seeing ourselves through eyes of those who have never seen us...

Understand the difference...

Keep pride from ego...

And anger from righteousness...

This is the line drawn

A boundary where no other shall trespass

Because change moves us always

Through the seasons with time and months counted

With the pouring rain tears fall

And its the calm after the storm that reminds us again

How the way this world holds us

Seconds count...

Silences speaks...

So break the sound...

Detach from the lonely battle

Wherever your feet may fall, carve out the path taken

This road is called survival

Today is not tomorrow...

You are your own

Freedom is the choice made

It's reality in truth living

And even when you think the fire is burning out

Trust the hope embraced

Because the light will always break through from within you.

© 2023

"One Day Like This"

Footsteps lead us...

A journey daily taken...

The sun begs to be embraced...

While countless hours are spent searching for the moon within the darkness

Because doubt tells us that something so simple cannot just merely be

A heartbeat rhythm pushes the soul

The questions appear with this burning need...

And reality answers...

Are you ready to listen?

We are this day...

Existence upon a time line with only one single guarantee

A past filled with history...

Brimmed to every single second with stories and lessons

This is how we were created

Moments and feelings...

Senses and emotions...

Weaved within this tapestry of a human being

We miss the lost...

And with deep remembrance we carry it

Sometimes the purpose is found

And sometimes we are the reason...

The uncertainty can work both ways

The unknown and the yet to be...

Because on one day like this...

Randomly, the power within is found

By choice, decision, force or last resort

We reclaim the ground where we stand

Realizing that compassion is a home that shelters the heart

Brave is the choice chosen

To stand proud and surrender nothing of yourself always

Because we are a human being

Flawed, beautiful and learning

Today...

And every tomorrow that greets us.

© 2023

"War Within"

 

There are moments...

And days...

When the mind catches itself...

Hung up upon the stumbles within the footsteps of life

Eyes search...

In an attempt to pin point the exact time of when and where

So thoughts wonder...

And questions ask...

Is it just one thing?

Or is it a collection of all things?

We are forced to dig deep within

To find reason in understanding

So we may be able to work through the path ahead

What is your hope?

Because it is so easily done to be stuck within your head

Battered and bruised from the war within

What is it that you wish to carry with you?

You can hate it...

But still fight it

If an ounce is all that you have, give it

There is strength in reaching out

And embrace the act of holding out hope

Shed the tears...

Feel the release...

Let go of the weight...

Find yourself here

Look up...

Because this is where you stand.

© 2023

"Perspective Known"

 

It's this moment found...

After so many struggled footsteps...

Of mistakes...

Stumbles...

And so much uncertainty...

A battle waged through the years

Has the months and losses counted

Yet the soul continues to ask...

Even when the answers follow the questions

If the difficult can simply be

Then why not change the action?

From the lesson comes the allowance in choice

A permission granted to breathe

Now places an anchor within, a pivoting point to move on from

With sight regained the view clears an embraced heart

The mind now understands that we are not just some broken thing

There is worth and reason within this being

From this growth a decision comes to be

Pages have turned...

One chapter is not the entire story told

Perspective is known

We are the only keeper of the light within

Acknowledge the power carried by our hands

Every direction taken is a new start

Remind yourself to forget all negative before this

We are not every yesterday passed...

And if hope is what we have

Then feed the soul positivity

Peace comes when chosen

Listen to the voice within calling your name

Release the weight...

And begin where everything else has come to an end

© 2023