Monday, 2 May 2016

"Last Place"



As I lay here in the dark
Eyes drifting towards the sky
Stars shine...
Darkness embraces me
Chilling my skin
Thoughts race
Lips quiver...
A strange blast of sound comes from my mouth...
As I scream out into the blackness
Horror made audible
Now echoes through the empty space around me
Sharpe words cause my heart to bleed
Tears flood my soul...
Because what you have done is more than hurt...
This is pain...
Anger....
Its devastation to the core...
And you put me here.



© 2016

Monday, 25 April 2016

"Yesterday Gone"




I bury my face deep within the palms of my hands
Filling them with tears...
Sometimes its not how or why things happened
The fact that they happened at all is bad enough...
Some memories are not simply just in our heads
Some you can remember so clearly
Because you can feel them physically ache within you with every waking breath...
Why is the reflection in the mirror-for some-never what they see?
And that its so easily forgotten that the courage and strength we need is already held within our hearts?
But when doubt and darkness take hold
Its a deep embrace not so quickly broken
Regret becomes the haunting ghost you cannot control
And existence can only be gained by living...
Making it the common understanding that you shouldn't have to kill yourself this much to live...
But as you cut the words, “I'm sorry” into your arm...
It spills out all the secrets of your life...
We who remain
Fall short on words, actions, or reasons...
And bare the hardest part
Anger...
Sadness...
Grief...
And forgiveness...
Leaving only tiny pieces of the larger things that use-to-be
And like all yesterdays gone
You where here with us...
Now, you are gone too.



© 2016

Monday, 18 April 2016

"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

Wednesday, 13 April 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

Monday, 4 April 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

Tuesday, 29 March 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

Sunday, 20 March 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