"Unforgiving Darkness"

The worlds heart is to hard and to cold to break for you

Frail, battered, and broken is this empty shell of a human being

One doesn't need to be a house to be haunted

The mind has millions of long hallways and many connecting corridors

Everything external has wicked its way in

A war has been sparked between one's mind and one's heart

A growing internal ghost has the perfect host

One's life becomes a lonesome place

No one recognizes one's face

Stripped clean, you mirror whatever others want to see

Its like yourself, behind yourself, concealed

There's this darkness growing and consuming

How does it creep in on you?

It seems like it comes out of no where, but you know that not to be true

It seems so slow and unflinching

Its like a deadly silent stalker

Your the perfect pray for an unforgiving predator

You never see it coming

It just jumps upon you, swallowing you whole

Where is it hiding?

Shadows lurk within you

Sometimes its simply sitting in plane sight staring you down

The whole world is watching

The weight of a thousand eyes are burying you alive

In a single second they make a life long choice

They pass cruel judgment and convict you

Your sentenced back into that barred prison that already exists inside of you

Their convictions towards you are like a loaded gun

By just being you, you are tempting their bayonets

Words are like numerous revolvers hunting you down

Stray bullets are a fatal thing to be left flying around

The darkness seeps in like an assassin

Wind blows through the emptiness like a bugle horn

One by one desperate tears fall

Peace cannot be found

You took your power in your hands and went against the world

The world took your will into its hands and turned it against you

The darkness has shut down your mind

Your blood will be spilled without a single blow

You will take up your eternal rest in the land-the ground-below

Questions fill this troubling void now

Where does this darkness come from?

Where does it get its power?

How does it creep in so quickly and so dangerously?

Is the darkness in you?

Is the darkness... you?

© 2018

"Silence You Keep"

Published in, “Passages Of The Heart”

An anthology of Canadian verse

Poetry Institute of Canada

Sometimes words are not needed

For the tears shed tell their own story...

We are the keeper of the life within us and the dictionary that defines our being

You may know a persons name, but not their story...

You've heard what they have done, but nothing of what they have been through...

Sometimes we do what we must to survive

To make it through the darkness that we carry within us

For it can last longer than the night

Things in life will only repeat themselves until we learn from them...

Time cannot be bought

Every moment has to be lived

Borrowed...

Stolen...

Earned...

Or existed...

Three important things to remember

Health...

Happiness...

Heart...

Let go of the ghosts in the past

Stop the haunting

End the silence that keeps you

Find the root

The core of your being

Live it out

Its your every right to dwell within happiness

Dream...

Create...

Inspire...

Carve it out upon the great tapestry of reality

And when shadows fall over the rising sun

Its your turn to shine bright.

© 2018

"Memories Of A Stranger"

Confusion and doubt

The greatest plague of the mind

Jagged tears burn the eyes

Its a weird feeling...

When you realize the person you once told everything to

Now has no idea what is happening in your life...

Friends to strangers

Disconnect of communication

Leads you blindly forth

The claim to right leaves another wrong

And lines are drawn

Good people give you happiness

Bad give you experiences and lessons learned

The best kind of people give you memories

The ones that sometimes bring you tears when remembered

Breaking the promise made

A constant battle had

To also remember...

To forget today.

© 2018

"To Rise Above"

Do your best...

Handle the stuff within your life

Don't force it upon others

Because if they end up taking it within their hands

They control it.

Leaving you with no actions to take

Or any say on what is kept

And what is thrown away

Though it may not be your intention

When fault is not claimed

Though not automatic...

The burden is passed on

Placed and carried upon the shoulders of another

Actions fail...

And words are wrapped in barbed wire

Circles are made around the same moment

When all I desperately need is a straight line

Leading away from this what holds me still

So if you want upset

And anger...

Then push a loyal person to the brink...

Upon the edge of where they no longer care

I've done my best

And I no longer know if I have the strength

To rise above the bigger person...

I have already been.

© 2018

"Message To Myself"

I am the lonely...

The abandon...

Seeking reason to answers that I may never know

I am the keeper of hope

A being that mends together pieces of every prayer

Built upon the pillars of conviction

I believe...

Even though you don't...

Actions reach these conclusions

Faster than my mind can sort through my thoughts

A collection of moments gathered

Different and similar

Each one anchored to the same root

Eyes of mindless judgment will always stare

That is why we need to let the light in

We need to be brave enough to do that

Sometimes we need to give love and compassion to another

Even though we don't fully understand

In a world of reinvention, its never to late

Because even a single moment can change a lot

Life happens for you...

Not to you...

Be the person you want to be

Find the power within self-affirmation...

You can do it...

Your gonna be alright...

There is only one single person in your life at all times

And that is you

So remember...

Sometimes we are okay...

And right where we need to be.

© 2018

"Who Decided?"

Who decided that the world should only be taught in black and white?

When there is already too many unfortunate shades of gray...

Who made the rules that we follow?

Our true concern should not be about breaking them

But doing our best to change them

So what happens if we colour outside the lines?

What if some of us don't fit inside a neat and tidy little box?

What label, tittle, or header do each and everyone of us fall under anyways?

What if we paint with all of the vibrant colours of the rainbow?

As everyone in life should...

Why should we be afraid of ourselves?

Why don't we cherish uniqueness as much as we do sameness?

They always say knowledge is power

But why do some of us choose to stop learning things beyond our line of sight?

Why do we let hate carry such force?

And why does compromise become the last option every time when it should be the first?

Who decided?

You?

© 2018

"Who We Are"

Footsteps that falter

Or the wrong ones taken

Serve as lessons learned

Experiences gained

Just because you stumbled upon the path of life

Does not mean that this is your last step taken

Falling down is a part of life

Getting back up is living

A mistake should be our teacher

Not an anchor holding us still

Let it be a temporary detour on the road ahead

Not a dead end

Because happiness is a feeling

Actions...

A choice made...

And a journey to experience and achieve.

© 2018