"Moments In Healing"

 

It's the light that changes...

From early morning dew drops...

To the last shred of golden sunset...

From shadows lingering

Changes converge...

Emotions run wild with the senses

Memories surge...

Reminders of all that should remain in the past

Sweet treasured flowers always grow

Amongst the many weeds within the path of life

These hands have wiped tears

While holding out hope

Shoulders have carried burdens

That ears do not listen to

We trade in our being heard...

For feeling safe...

The eyes carry the view of the world

Reflections and moments

Emotions run

Out of time...

Out of breath...

Passion is caring

Because like so many things in life

Pain...

Love...

Destruction...

And peace...

All start and begin in the smallest of places

The effort is in the trying

The will of persistence

Reminding yourself on those lesser days

That it's okay not to be, “Okay”

We are human...

Growing and learning

We fall apart...

The cracks let light into the darkness

We are not weak...

Healing is messy...

And carries no time line.

© 2020

"Unsaid Sentences..."

 

It's always in reverse...

At the end...

We think of what came first

Those moments and exact feelings

Some have faded...

Others have changed us beyond measure

Makes a hope renewed from passion lost

All at the mercy of the hands of time

Past judgment...

A future unseen...

Wonder and confusion

All play with the thoughts strung together

A web of lies makes the soul seek the root of truth

It's the realization understood, that it does not have versions

Only absolute...

From the place where we once stood

To where our feet fall now

Words are like arrows

Hitting the target deep

Conclusions drawn...

Collateral damage complete...

The absence of another may not break your conviction

But their complete silence may test your will...

Regrets of missed opportunities form

From a stand off of opinions

Taken root in higher moral ground

Makes the steps forward unsteady

Are you prepared to gamble with something or someone you may lose?

Because hazed recollections fail as solid proofs of fact

The crossroads now meet...

A decision awaits...

What bothers you more?

That they were right?

Or that you were proven wrong?

The curse of a deep love is known

It's the worth given in caring so much

All unsaid by you...

And me...

© 2020

"Parts Of Life"

 

Have the courage to be authentic...

Because barely surviving is no way to live...

It is never wrong to reach out for things that we cannot see yet

This is the root of how we begin to believe

Let the fire within you burn brighter than the fire that surrounds you

Some people come into our lives

And make it hard to see the light

We must remember that its their lack of vision on their part

Not ours...

Do your best to measure yourself in happiness

All else gives you false weight

Enjoy the little things

And everything in between

For some day you may look back and realize

They were the big things missed..

Breath in the moments of life

And exhale all the rest

Falling down is part of life

Getting back up is living.

© 2020

"Real Time"

 

There is a point in the timeline of life...

Where you get to old to be governed by the fear of others...

Because our choices are just that...

So own them...

Making the hardest part about caring for anything in this world

Is that you do...

Be not the ideals and judgment that are preached

Instead, be the transformation and the example you wish others to follow

Be living proof that change is possible

Open your mind...

Challenge your expectations

And show others that it's never to late to learn

We are not the wrong assumptions made against us

Our imagination is just that

Ours...

To create with, work with, and control

Love with all your heart

Hold compassion for yourself as well as for others

Belief in ones self and others is the most important

Realize the weight in words spoken

And the embrace of faith and hope given in the offering of, “I understand”

These are all ties that bind...

Carrying endless meaning to those who receive it

Existing in the world

Is where I am found

Where are you?

© 2020

"Not Just A Moment"

 

Lost in the broken pieces...

Trying to find the light on the other side of darkness...

Words fail to reach out

Holding onto the moments passed

A sense of loneliness weighs upon the soul

Feet drag upon the floor

Direction unknown...

A voice simply screams to keep moving

If you are to make this your last stand...

Then take everything that you have into your hands

Make a fist...

And fight with every last breath

Giving birth within death

To a new hope

And a chance taken...

Because every minute is not just a moment

It's 60 seconds of endless possibilities.

© 2020

"Zero Hour Past"

 

10...

Lost amongst the world...

A single soul wanders...

One along with the many unknown

Kept silent by fear

Tears are hidden within the lines, “I'm okay...”

The mind slips...

Forgetting to allow the sunlight in

Confusion should not be a life sentence

The senses fight

Until they numb...

9...

Cast out from that tender embrace

Hope falls like dew upon the grass

Barely clinging on

It's strange how quickly emotions turn

Where does the responsibility of understanding lie?

The torment of illusion

To be hurt and broken

Old scars bleed

Faith breaks...

8...

Band from the safety of home

The bright stars above seem to be the only thing to pierce through the pitch-black darkness

As words fail..

Abandonment calls

A false sense of being embraces

All those things best left untouched

But the soul cannot help itself

To reach out...

7...

Blame is a hazed recall

To that exact point and time

When yesterday was suppose to be the better day

And tomorrow was a promise made

Until these moments...

Tears glisten upon the moonlight

Shadows of the sleeping world bear silent witness

6...

Hands reach...

This conclusion almost complete

Breath runs cold

As consequences wonder...

The early hours of the morning stare down the countdown

Maybe one day an understanding could have been reached

5...

All that once was known

Has shattered the being to the core...

Reality is not this

Even though every moment is now...

The final fight was the greatest battle never won...

4...

Soundless fear passes

Whispered pieces of prayer

All now fleeting

Conviction is complete

3..

Tears pour out

Fingers hold

Eyes close

2...

This irrevocable task cannot be undone...

While growing pools of red life ink stain the ground...

1..

Zero hour has come to pass...

© 2020

"Mirrored Fragments"

 

There are those times...

In moments...

We all fight that war

Our thoughts against everything else

The heart holds out

Each beat keeps the feet marching forward

But the mind secretly knows...

And the senses just don't seem to want to let go...

How do we weigh out what is right?

And what is easy?

For the actions taken against us have become too much

Numbers have stopped counting

And  the cup runs over the brim

The scars upon the broken never even have a chance to heal

A thousand mirrored fragments

Cast shadows offensive to the eye

A smiling face covers the deceitful mouth

Weak lies fail to lead us back to the sunlight...

Apologies for behavior that never changes

Becomes those days with the inability to remember

That forgiveness is being pushed aside by something more...

The lack of conviction found

In all that use-to-be...

Now leaving...

The heart that no longer cares...

© 2020