"My Last Confession..."

Your actions cause me to utter the cruelest words that I've ever spoken...

Angry is the heart that has had its love broken...

Tainted are the memories made

Turned away are the eyes that once looked so fondly

For your actions done

Have tattooed finger print stains upon my skin

I use to believe in you the way you did in me...

Caring..

Loving...

True...

Dark now is the light that once shone bright

Changed is everything

What came to be...

Is now use-to-be...

Memories to be soon forgotten

As I let these moments pass

Settling my racing heart

I catch my breath

Making this my last confession made

Above all else...

Let the truth of the matter be known...

From this day forward

And every moment after this

You will fail to inspire anything of any worth...

Anymore.

© 2016

"Lines Of Release"

Some of these moments that follow

Are those in life rather passed by

We struggle to find those things lost

Or have yet to come to be...

And I find myself here

Hit with the steadily growing realization that I have led myself a stray

I've been walking in the wrong direction...

All this time I thought I was moving towards affection

Only to discover you are not the reason why my eyes search so intently

The colour has faded...

The tide has changed...

What once came to be seems like a distant memory...

The words that fill these lines are my final goodbye

For I no longer see myself reflected within you

Sometimes you reach that point in time with another being...

Where the lines of life blur

Either your paths continue to connect...

Reflect...

Or disconnect...

©2016

"To Moments Passed"

The hardest part of letting go...

Is moving on...

But when you reach the end of the road

And there is no where else to go

A new path must be forged

We can never write all the wrongs done...

We must find peace within the act of leaving it behind us

Where it belongs...

Forgiveness may not be able to change the past

But it certainly can change the future

Courage and strength is needed to know the difference

Our actions and words are just that

Ours...

Claim it...

Own it...

Take blame or reward with the same stride

There is no greater act given to another than validation

Or acknowledgment...

Be the change sought

Plant it...

Let it grow

Because in the end

Truth reveals all

And so does actions taken

There is hope with life in every breath

You just might find happiness when you find yourself changed...

Dawn will break the darkness that has fallen

Time moves on

To moments passed

Standing in the light we become free

By picking ourselves up

Dusting off the dirt

And carrying on living.

© 2016

"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