"Creating Space"

Some things in life we will walk alone with

Others can be there, listening...

Because in those moments...

The only thing they can do is hold and curate space

This is our path to take

Life reminds us of this by putting us here

Our own path, taken at our own pace and time

All of us are the bad in some else's story told

Communication is the key

Distance does not create true separation

Silence does...

We grow and we learn

The person we were yesterday is not the same person we are today

Because it may not all be about the destination

Maybe its the continuous journey in existing every day

By standing in the light and being seen for who you are

A heart of pain...

Raw wounds...

A lesson etched into the senses...

You will come to your peace

And carry that remembrance within memories

The heart strings that beat with the pulse of life remind us of this

When memory fails, place your hand to your heart

The greatest reason and purpose is found there

Despite all else, life is motion forward

We define our own worth

And we are certainly worth more than these moments then, here and now

If it lifts you up and helps you keep walking

Then maybe its just exactly what you need

Because somethings we never truly move on from...

We just move through it

A residue remains...

Washed away by tears or the years passed...

So please, be gentle with yourself

I like you, am doing the best that we can

Remember that its courageous to remain strong and kind in a sometimes cruel and dark world

And that we can't help everyone...

But everyone can help some one...

© 2019

"You Learn"

There are moments...

Many counted...

Treasured, remembered, and forgotten

Lessons in life are plenty

Someone is always the student, another the teacher

You learn this as the years go by

People enter our lives

Helping us brave the storm

Bringing us so much light and love

Others, create the dark storm clouds and the tears that rain...

Leaving tainted fingerprints that slowly fade

You learn that we are not the sum of peoples poor choices made

That closure to some wounds only ever arrives years later

Long after you stop searching for it...

That the finality you once so desperately sought...

Came and went without a single notice...

No fanfare or epiphany called out

Maybe it was at an odd moment

In a random smile of goodness

So large that the corners trailed off the side of your face

If a smile was a hug, it would be this

Or maybe it was as you laughed

Laughing a laugh that is unapologetically yours

And it hits...

The realization dawned

That you are grateful for goodbye's

Because some have to be said

You learn this...

That life is motion forward

Your past doesn't need you anymore, your future does...

Existence in all this life that has been carried with you till now

Holding and curating space

You learn...

That a person's behavior towards you

Has more to do with their own internal struggles

Than it ever did with you...

Is when you will find peace

And you learn grace.

© 2019

"Worthy of Existence"

We are here...

Some of us are lucky enough to be found

While others are still searching

Sifting through reflected times passed

Or forever holding onto those things that once held us still

The moments of life have brought us here

We treasure those memories we deem worthy

Forgotten are those that have soured our taste within life

We are not the darkness that attempts to seep into the corners of our daily living

We are more...

We are worthy of this endeavor

Because believing can lead to conviction

We have written so much already within in our history

Some pages carry more than we can ever handle

The heaviness of burden weighs upon us

Adding to the many lessons already learned...

We are never to old or young to be the student or the teacher

Every person who enters our life brings us light

But not every soul was meant to stay and walk with us

Not every promise to be present is loyal

Some only leave their mark of inspiration

Others leave a scar that tears cannot wash away

Making their only purpose to exist... and exit...

To show us an example of what to avoid the next time

Because a single lie discovered...

Is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed

If you push a trusted person away, to that final moment of ending

You will not find them where you left them in abandonment

As if they were awaiting for your return

People have big hearts

With an undeniable large capacity to care

Friendship and love should not be treated as a convenience

The heart is not a game to be played with

We are not sacrifices to judgment passed

And if an apology is all that you have left

One must to their best to give it

Fill up your words and make them anything but empty

Making them louder than your hurt and disrespect ever was...

© 2019

"Shades and Colour"

It starts with a thought

A seed planted

That grows into a wish

Eyes watch with intensity

Every motion

A smile...

The lightest of touch

All begin to draw the scene played out

Start to become those moments that mean more than the time they hold

Eagerness pushes the heart

Footsteps lead

Hope holds tightly to embraced hands

Shades turn to colour

Giving definition to something that did not have a name

Yet questions remain

Is the image seen the same?

© 2019

"To Receive In Return"

Some people love the players

While others love the game

Sometimes you only give as much of yourself as you receive in return

Fragile is the heart

And should not be played with

Life moves in one direction

Foot steps forward should be planted well

So why do you ask me to take a path that you are not willing to walk yourself?

Love is just a word until you give it meaning

Empty are your hands that gesture

A wall surrounds your heart

Some words require action

To secure the meaning

You need to learn how to be happy by standing upon your own two feet

Before you walk along side another

Then maybe... one day...

I'll be what you need

It all depends upon you

But don't wait too long...

For the day you finally decide you want me

May be the day I've finally given up upon you...

© 2019

"Promise Yourself"

Brave are those souls that reach out...

There is a reason...

Old decisions made...

Can have long reaching shadows

It is up to us to use the light of learning

To surrender and grow from the past

Even though we can see the bad coming

Nothing can ever prepare us for that moment

Those seconds that hold us still

Till time is realized and made

The throat swelling ache of confusion...

Tears at the ready to leap to the ground

Faster than the body can fall

We as human beings absorb all this

Hard times turn us in

Cold days cause us to hold onto our hearts

Wrapping our lonely souls in misplaced hope

We lose patience...

And forget to express concern for another when we see the suffering

Our names should not be just casual words spoken

We define our own worth

We are not the sum of others wrong assumptions made

Regardless of age, race, or status

Peace always begins within

Devote yourself to that care

Be passionately generous

Discover the power within from living authentically

Because we are our own lifetime companion

Change does not start to happen...

Until we are brave enough

To be that change...

Together we shine brighter

If we let the light in and win

So take my hand now

For one day...

I may need yours.

© 2019

"Refuse To Be Haunted"

Torn is the heart and soul

And I am between those moments

Of what I want to keep and what I want to forget...

The unfortunate part is, we all eat lies when our hearts are hungry

It leads us astray to the abandoned and lost...

We anchor ourselves to things that may or may not be there

Sweet words cover up false hope

And a tender embrace holds hidden broken promises made

The combination of realizations cause thoughts to question

Acceptance and validation is one of the most powerful things

Honoured was the soul to receive such attention

Until the world within a world shifted

Change whispered hints of the end

Until I was lost again...

The worst kind of pain came...

Getting hurt by the person I explained my pain to

The sky fell...

My feet lost their way

Each day was a journey

Light to darkness, then darkness to light...

Life is now living and I am not looking back

My path does not lead that way

I have learned my lesson of you

I've removed myself from worthless feelings

My time matters

My soul is not replaceable

And I refuse to be haunted by ghosts you attempt to throw back into my life

You say this is your greatest act...

A final “gift” in a way

“The be all to end all...”

But I already know, that from all ash, growth begins

And I am beyond this now

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got

Its learning you are always worth more than the moments passed

You can take back your so called, “last gift given”

Because the wrapping is very lovely

But the box its empty...

So, I'll pass.

© 2019