"Heartbeats For Love"

You are the words I write...

Walk slowly to me...

Come softly like a whisper

And stay like a promise

I see you as you see me

The good with the bad

Light and the dark...

And that is why I love you

Your voice is a beacon calling to my heart

I have found a home safely within your arms

Where time embraces us with memories made

Connected from within

We are us

And as long as I have breath in my lungs to speak your name

I will love you...

In perfectly perfect

Completely

And always.

© 2017

"Between Truth And Lie"

All reason has fled

Compassion...

Kindness...

Respect...

The cold bite of abandonment stings deep

Piercing my already numb heart

Words fail to form upon my tongue

Quivering lips barely contain a whimper...

Thoughts are thick

Heavy with weight

Dragging their way through the corridors of my mind

Empty memories vanish

Leaving holes in time already played

A brief history made, now erased

Unanswered questions mock my resolve to move on

Passed the blood shed

My senses sift through the sentences told

Between truth and lie...

But a line cannot be found

Who knew happiness could spell out hell lived so quickly...

Tears call out to a person who no longer exists

Finger prints left stain my skin

The last mark your touch ever made

All things built

Now burnt out ruin

All of this feels more like a crime scene rather than love lost

This is the nameless grave dug for my heart

Buried deep beneath an unmarked stone...

Published in: "Island Tides"
Anthology of verse
Poetry Institute of Canada

© 2017

"Worth The Fight"

Your eyes hold in a fixed gaze

Waist deep in the turmoil of life

You wade through the turbulent waters

A river of tears flow freely from within

There is no stopping the flood

Anger

Pain

Confusion

Depression boils out from the cracks within the surface

Nothing can be hidden form the eyes of the world

For all has become bigger than yourself

Its grown beyond your world

And almost past the realm of understanding

How do you find yourself here?

Abandonment has come to pass

From the only safe harbor you once knew

Footsteps have led you to this place of darkness

Now filled with too many empty corners where sunlight no longer shines

Destination unknown

But what is...?

One must embrace those things that are

We are more than our mistakes

Breath into and though the moments

Sometimes life takes its own path

We must do our best to hang on

Hold on and reach out

Because when we rise together

Strength is found in numbers.

© 2017

"When We Rise"

We all fall down upon the path of life

Its that lesson learned

And the scars that tell the stories

The importance is to rise to the fight

A spark lost must be rekindled

Let it burn bright

Shine your light

When those moments of inspiration hit

embrace them

Seize all that is offered

Allow them flow through you

Let motivation find you

Seek the source

Find the root

Wherever that may be

Be more than these moments

Breath through them...

Let your new path rise up and meet your eager feet

Regain your ground once so proudly fought and won

Because all of this is not just merely surviving

It's life...

Living

And its' existing!

© 2017

"Bleeding Heart"

When a soul is perched upon the edge of life...

And death...

Reflecting upon the moments of life

Only then do you come to know the true meaning of time...

Because barely surviving should not be your main purpose in life

Denial has left you abandon

And by avoiding each moment of every day

Has made you become a ghost within your own life...

Brick by brick

Lie by lie

You build a wall around you

A silence words soon will not be able to break

Truth is like blood underneath your fingernails

Its begging to be set free

Yet your eyes remain starring at the floor

As if your secrets were written upon the carpet

For the all viewing eye to read

Your footsteps have come to the proverbial fork in the road

Choices now haunt your every waking moment...

Left or right?

Surrender or fight?

Or step out into the light...

And live life?

© 2017

"Light Carries On"

The dark tone in your voice begs to be heard

Trembling hands desperately reach

Awaiting to be held

The broken clock upon the wall only reminds you of time lost

Or that will never be...

Some seem to justify everything

Just so they don't have to take ownership of anything

Our attitude is evidence of this

Too many times people speak of days old hate

Completely undermining just how safe one can feel to be safe

Because when everything seems helpless

We must do our best to survive

To push on...

To take it one day at a time

And if the day is too much

Take one hour at a time

And if one hour proves too much

Take a minute at a time

Don't stop moving

The act of trying gives you hope

Because your current situation is not your final destination

We all fall down

And lose that spark

Be sure to ignite the flame once again upon rising

And shine bright

So the light will carry you though

Making you remember that we must be greater than what we suffer...

Always.

© 2017

"Liberty"

The search begins within

Shadows fell...

Darkness pulled...

Doubt became a fog you could not navigate through

Because for far too long you have surrendered to those moments that have held you still

Despite it all, you found yourself here...

Nothing more and nothing less than what you are

Taken as if its your last breath of fight

You steal in the strength needed from the roots of survival

You take one step away from the broken

Small in nature...

You have begun the effort to rekindle that spark

The good with the bad mix together

Forming the solid bricks of your foundation now

The turning of a page...

This is the next chapter to be written...

Brushing off the dust of things faded

You forge ahead upon this path of liberty

Its a new hope given

Your beacon of light now shines out within

Lost no longer, you have your heading

There is no other direction than this

You know all too well not to look back

Because you were never meant to go in that direction

Embraced is this feeling...

That it's never too late to find yourself

Self discovery is always worth the effort put forth...

And the journey taken

Your heart now beats for love...

For adventure...

For life...

As you dare to be different from what you were

To something much more now.

© 2017