"Stronger We Must Be"

Time suspends itself between thoughts

Reflection deep...

Lost to the past are those bittersweet

The future is what we meet

Blink of an eye it may end

Presence given is living

Lungs cannot live upon baited breath

Who said that you can't take the broken and rebuild it?

Every step forward is surviving

The promise of better times is this day

And every tomorrow...

Be the light that you are

Shine like fire

Fragile petals of a rose still bravely bloom

And so should you

Don't let the space you want

Become the prison containing you

Life is perpetual motion

March forward

We are this...

And everything in between

Pause...

Be still...

Take this as it comes

Say the words

Confess...

Speak the soul

Let the truth unfold

Find the common connection within us all

Conquer the afraid

Stronger we must be

But together we are even stronger

Be not the hate given by others

We are more than this

Recognize clearly

We are reality and existence.

© 2019

"Remind Yourself"

Well informed decisions cannot be made upon assumptions

Rumor mill

Or gossip...

You need to follow your heart

Wide open...

Tricks of the mind may sway you

But your mind will only replay things the heart cannot delete

Do not feel abandoned

An entire world of choices exist inside you

Plant your feet here

The deeper the roots

The harder they are to pull up

Forget to regret the past

You cannot change what has already happened

Be the beacon of light in the darkness

Search for your truth

Live it with happiness

Be bold

Acts of love do not require repayments

Compassion can be given for free

But respect has to be earned

Treasure your imperfections

For they are what makes you unique

Know the difference between love

And being lonely

Take a moment to breath

To remind yourself to be gentle with your being

And that you are doing the best that you can.

© 2019

"A Promise Kept"

There are so many amazing views upon life

Some things can look the same...

Even though everything has changed

Heart beats link moments together

The mind in a fury of actions, feeling, and thoughts

We remind ourselves that we need to remember

In subtle and not so many subtle ways...

That we are loved...

And we love and care for...

The important, wanted, and needed

Our easy is anothers life altering difficult

The truth can be a burden carried alone

For others are not brave or strong enough to bare it

We are kind, gentle, and soft

There is honour in the protected

And faith and hope found within conviction

A ray of sunshine always awaits those stuck in darkness

Our minds are a very powerful thing

Happy is a right to be lived...

Don't ever allow anyone to tell you different

Let joy be as contagious as laughter

Smile that wild smile

Let tears rain

Absorbing into and from the heart

Embrace trembling hands

Hold that place of safety

Even if the only thing you have to offer is silently standing there

Be present in that moment...

See the beauty in forgetting to hold onto those things that no longer give us purpose

You've learned the lesson

Now, live passed it

We are all perfectly imperfect

The unique and one of a kind

Strive for any of this on any given day

And you will have not only lived, but existed as a being of this world

Be this to yourself...

And for others...

Even though to will be the easiest and hardest promise kept.

© 2019

"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