bravery
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Be brave enough to walk awayAnd don't look backBe brave to say goodbyeBe brave enough to go your wayBe brave not to tell a lie.
you are not my first love, for i have loved before.
sometimes i wish it were not true, for then i would be able to hold you higher due to not knowing the pain that is caused by love.
Be brave enough to walk away
And don’t look back
Be brave to say goodbye
Be brave enough to go your way
Be brave not to tell a lie.
Still tears in our eyes for our Brave Haiti
Still tears in our eyes for our incredible Country
Why is it that our minds try to convince us that the worst is going to come true?
And that even when you try to convince yourself other wise, it doesn't seem to work, no matter what you do.
Ayiti, Ayiti, Ayiti, peyi dè Mati
Ayiti, Ayiti, Peyi Gran Esklav
Ayiti, Ayiti, Peyi Nèg Brav
Yon Oazi ke zòt vle trayi.
To those who handed me the paintbrush
to craft a mind of my own
In a world that's rich in color,
To those who spoke up in the quietest room,
To those who heard me suffer in silence,
Graceful she is, winking at my every thought.
Sheltered by her shadow, she comforts me.
Her reassuring faces,
Her beam of life,
She is infinite.
Valiant she will always be,
I smile, I laugh and I cry,
but who am I?
I eat, I walk and I jump,
but who am I?
I dance, I sing and I sleep,
but who am I?
I talk, I shout and I bath,
but who am I?
the biggest change happened
during spring of junior year
when i saw my father
cry
and i realized that
those who seem the strongest
are those who are most
broken
I realized that I
You stiff my breath
Make my throat go numb
I can’t say a word
And you want me say a lot
Why do you have such cruel inflictions on me?
Is my soul not enough for you to keep
You stiff my breath
Make my throat go numb
I can’t say a word
And you want me say a lot
Why do you have such cruel inflictions on me?
Is my soul not enough for you to keep
They say stand up for yourself when someone makes you feel small.
But, then they tell you "Chill out".
All of a sudden speaking up shouldn't be an option.
Soggy boots stomp on crumbled lands
No tears are wept for their bloody hands
Legs of lead
and Hearts of steel
Fear is my closest friend
She knows me better than I know myself
She is loving and she is kind and she keeps what's best for me in mind as she guides me through this tumultous life
The hard metal risers held the students,
Creaking under the large weight.
Onto the next song in the performance,
The conductor hastily turns on the mic.
He, in his strapping tuxedo, faces the audience,
I am scared
But I will push through
I fall
As they say I can't possible go far
I am scared
But I will fight through
I am battered, torn and bruised
They laugh as I crawl
Listen!
Slip right, then jab.
Follow up, keep it straight!
Remember!
Cover yourself!
Don't let him land another!
He's big, too big!
His hands are like stones!
He's quick, too quick!
Those who can and can't
Those who CAN speak
Those who CAN'T speak
Those who do and don't
Those who DO speak
Those who DON'T speak
Those who will and won't
Those who WILL speak
Silence.
For years, only silence.
And fear… no song.
Never testing the limits,
Never pushing the envelope,
Never hearing the song.
I like to put plastic bags over my head.
I like to pull them down over my eyes, so I can’t see anything but the light that permeates them.
The Great Mason the mason,
Son of the greatest great of all the greats Darryl, wisest wise of all the wise Christy,
Heir to the hearth of Strand, to whom he owes his spoils,
Courage and strength in the midst of her fear
Disguises her feelings, though she woke up in tears
Uneven, rocky, and rough her journey will be
Winding and long her roads are temporarily
She lays there hoping the day will grow bright
laying in the dark she’s almost afraid of the light that’s going to shine through the curtains soon
planning in her head how and why to get out of bed when there’s so much dread
She lays there hoping the day will grow bright
laying in the dark she’s almost afraid of the light that’s going to shine through the curtains soon
planning in her head how and why to get out of bed when there’s so much dread
It's there.
Sitting in the corner of my mind.
Waiting for me to weaken.
I'm sick and tired.
It strikes when my insecurities are left bare.
Leaving me to search and find.
What makes us human?
It's not our nationality,
Not our ethnicity,
Not our complexion,
Nor occupation, social stature,
Age, gender, religion, body size, hair texture, nor the colour of our eyes.
But
Will I cower by the fire
that shines into the night?
Or venture into the darkness
and look my fear in the eyes?
If I just give up,
If I just give in,
If I just lay down and cry,
Words climb against my larynx
and punch at my mouth,
but I screw my lips shut
and force myself to swallow this alphabet
lump in my throat.
Thousands of letters and punctuation marks
I'm afraid of heights, but that's not all.
There are no ropes in case I fall.
Now that I'm an adult it seems,
the only escape from anxiety is in my dreams.
I would love to wake up one day,
Be brave little angel it'll be okay,
Close your eyes tomorrow is another day.
Spread your wings take flight,
Together we'll win this fight.
Put down the razor put down the knife,
for so long you've been sinking
belly full of stones
i press my lips to yours
with the notion
that breathing outward might send you upward
but somehow
accidentally
i breathe in
Dear teens,
What makes someone a bad person ?
Is it the things we say,
The things we post,
How we look,
Or the things we know,
Alone with her children in the middle of the city
Laughing smiling scolding protecting them
With her very beauty.
It's the way we hold hands
In the face of adversity.
When you tell me your
Not satisfied.
When you remember my
mothers birthday.
Why didn't you fight back, they say.Why didn't you scream?Why didn't you run?You must have wanted it, they say.You must have secretly liked it.Otherwise, you would have fought
Outward pour of a fluid form.
Remain resilient amid morbid scorn.
Corny words attempt to mingle.
Story swords adept to symbols.
Macho man with a toothpick soul,
In a mall , some big meeting going on, stretched out into multiple rooms, an important person takes their life. Major chaos ensues, fire bombs are thrown into all rooms killing pedestrians.
America, Americathe land of the freeAmerica the beautifulbuilt on bravery
But are we as boundlessas we claim to be?
Bravery in the face of danger
Courage in a foreign land
Your selflessness in service
As strong and united you stand
For the old as with the young
Both loved ones and those unknown
A house party thrown, his parents out of town--
drinks were flowing, ”pong balls” flying
smoking, laughing, dancing and music.
There was a sixteen year old girl, invited by chance.
As children, the world seemed so endless.
Envious of its depth we ran to see it all-
our oversized hearts didn’t know how to fall,
so we took leap after leap of faith.
We raced,
A Strangers Bravery
There is so much pain and suffering,
For a land that should be free,
So much death and anguish,
My chest deepens as I think of what words to say.
I can not speak.
I am filled with fear, and it scratches at my surface like claws.
Adventure comes with opportunity,Opportunity comes with the unknown,The unknown needs faith. Taking steps with faith will lead to new doors,New opportunities, and new adventures.You just have to be brave enough to see it.
you are stronger than you think;
strong enough to come back from the brink
strong enough to write what i can't say;
strong enough to save someone else's day
you'll always be strong enough
I used to talk to trees. Often I sought their branches to hold me when I felt my body to small to contain what I held. They would talk me back into it- taught me how to grow inside a husk
rain settles in.
dank,
organic
breath of steam.
i spit out my life:
sweet,
sweet beginnings to
We sang and we danced, laughed and played
But that was back then in the good ole days
Back when we were free
And had no reason to flee
The nights we would all gather around the blazing fire
Bravery doesn’t always involve navigating a hailstorm of bullets,running into a burning building or saving a drowning child.Sometimes bravery is finding your voice and speaking up for yourself.It’s using that voice to speak up for others.
stuck between cracked heart and broken ribs lies fear
no whisper is let slip without a quiver
a lionheart won’t last without the spear
of courage loud as red in hot summer
I used to think I was brave.
That I could be anything I aimed for.
But then life hit me,
kicked me,
shit on me
rolled me in dirt
and spit on me.
I wish I could be brave again,
I begin to drown in an ocean of blue, only to realize I've forgotten my life jacket.
These eyes, they take me without invitation.
I'm sucked into a whirlpool that leads to an endless gaze.
Mother tells me she loves me
But I think she loves my sister the most.
It’s pretty obvious, from the way
The music storms within me
Strains I can't express
I am a chained melody
These chords left unpressed
My soul aches with feeble hands
When that one song plays
i'm so sick and tire
of the media portraying bruce jenner as heroic
what was so courageous about what he did?
a surgical transformation to an identity that falsifies his true self
he's in denial of who he really is
Opportunities aren’t abound for women like me
My face has been stepped on
My history utterly destroyed
They haven’t fared well
If one can imagine them left in my position at birthIf our lives were switched
She told me "you will not be much of anything,
People just look right through your frail bones
You will never make much of a difference because
You will end up very cold naked afraid alone
Bravery.
One simple word.
A simple word with so much meaning behind it.
Bravery.
Asking that girl I like to homecoming.
Bravery.
You think you're in control? You think you can get to me?
Well you're wrong. You may hurt me on my inside, but I'm a sheild on the outside.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.
LIES!
Troubled in school with a rough past
He signed a couple papers to start fresh
Now being tested mentally and physically yet always comes last
Pushed to the limits with aching limbs yet he pushes on
Has anyone ever looked in the mirror and said:
“I feel courageous today”
Chances are you haven’t, but that’s totally okay
Now is when I challenge you to do just that
I want to do it right.
See, and that's my problem right there.
Because in my desire to do life right
I become terrified of making mistakes
And turn to what the world (the general consensus) says.
I wont stop trying to walk on water,
Even if i cannot swim.
Not because of fear i won't
Lose all my dreams and hopes
Lights Within Us
Ashley Shea
A spec afar
Whose luminosity amplifies as darkness approaches
A small light Suspended in the gloom
Much like the hearts within us
If a stranger was the face reflected back
You wouldn't break his jaw would you?
Threaten to murder him for being black
Or beat him for loving his fellow man
Too often I see the withered dreams
There is always going to be a bright light
at the end of the passage way.
You won't always count on someone
so you have to be strong
and face the world.
You are so brave
I am chained in a cage. Exposed and vulnerable like a nerve.
But the joke is on them.
I may be trapped, but I'm not a captive.
The fire in me would make Hades run for the hills.
Goodbye..it's time that we part
Here now I leave along with your troubles
So you may stay happy as you've always been
More than you now are the memories precious
If I could be anything
it would be a little
bit braver, so maybe
you wouldn't curl your lip at me
like you do
Oh Soldier my Soldier
Empty and alone
Friends back home
Far from peace
Gambled by dice
They always told him he was very brave.
That he had been attacked by someone in the night
and been given a slow acting poison.
They didn’t know how else to tell him.
When life gets difficult,
And your cup over flows,
Things go haywire,
Objects explode,
Theres no air,
No air,
No air you cant breathe,
Your brain cant conceive,
Wrong,
Wrong,
Sometimes I can't breathe
When you're walking next to me.
Sometimes you just have to take a chance
and just say 'Hello'.
You smile at me and I smile back,
And when you told methat dayunder the maple treeI already knew.I didn't recognize, but,I already knew.How...uncertain it is out there.And now you're gone?Leaving?
As kids, we are brave
if we go down the slide
if we try a new food
if we jump off the high dive
if we don't cry when mom leaves on the first day of school.
As middle schoolers, we are brave
Hello there, I just wanted to say
Be confident, stand up for yourself today.
Don't let them bully you.
Don't let their words bog you down.
Just like that one saying:
Turn that smile upside down.
He's on every wall of every room,
Around our necks and in our heads,
In our hearts, in what we said.
He hangs on the cross,
Head bowed in shame
'Cause you can't do one thing.
I am the one who everyone calls short
I am the one who often needs support
I am the black ballet who dreams
My dreams are real
My hopes are precious
My hard work is golden
Everything is overseenWind blows through the treesI see the gleam from the rain drops on the leavesThe grass a shade of greenSo peaceful So siren Grey clouds stream In the sky
Maybe She Would Be Alive Today. If I Spoke Up And Said What I Needed To Say. If I Thought Differently and Choose A Different Path. Crazy Thing Is I Didn’t Think She Would Last.
Sat down and stared at the mesmerizing sky,Didn't expect to find a friendI can't even liePeace was all we yearned.
My words are mine not yours
But I'll share
Lend you my words of courage
Hope
Love
But I wont let you take them
My words are mine but not mine alone there for you to
Just ask
Silence stretches
Between you and iIts painfully quietThe music turned on highTo drown outThe painful truth
shes my best friendi hold her hand when she crieshold her hair when she vomitsrub her back when she needs mehug her when she breaks downand helps her smilei dont know how to deal with emotions
Every minute, every hour, every day..I will stay... Right here patiently waiting.. keeping my mind busy, as to not always think of you...
From as far
well as far as I can remember
From the cold fronts of December
to the hot summers of July in everything
I've done it was to prove that I could do
anything as long as try,
Courage, the pride of a lion. The heart of a marine. Something everyone strives to acheive, but many fail. Is courage best earned when it is ignited from love, anger, or fear. The costs can be high but the reward is sweet.
My heart is beside me, I am dying.
This room has turned black and stillness grows on.
My chassis slows and I die while flying.
These last thoughts go to paper as they dawn,
Before I step on the spotlight, I dip my pointe shoes on Rossin.
Adrenaline pumps my blood and my senses change; I am not myself anymore.
Once the melody strikes, the brain doesn't think, it feels and creates something beautiful.
I sit with a post it,
Willing the words from my sophomoric mind,
And they do not come,
For I have nothing to say.
Wandering Words
A violin has potential to awaken a heart with her lovely tune
Just as words have the potential
To free someone
The pain that I felt over the years
The kind that brought those silent tears
The more I saw my heart break
The less of a women in myself I thought I could make
Many times I thought I fought my love
Broken streets mind is forced to travel,
Empty soul enforced to search.
Trembling hands hunt for redemption,
Merely paper they unearth.
Lips begin to quiver
As crystal escapes at last,
He writes poetry,
He writes art.
Poetry brings out the loud voice within him,
Poetry was the elation he needed during those dark moments in high school.
Yes, poetry was his anti-depressant. His drug.
The 5 senses I was blessed with became my curse
I saw, I felt, I smelled, I heard, i tasted what my life offered me
My hopes, thoughts, and dreams became deflected
Be courageous.
A single moment can
Free and ignite a lifetime.
Doors can be blown wide from
Rash, unadulterated bravery.
A mere minute can birth
A new universe of opportunity.
As I sit in my room I ponder the many reasons why I write.
A ponder and wonder and think for a moment.
I have many reasons, and I shall try to be contrite....
I write to escape.
Poetry
What it meant to me before
Just words written in a stanza
With rhymes and patterns
I knew that they’re art expressed in words
It is not in my nature to be honest, not with myself that is
Not until I hold the pen and burn upon the words I wish to overlook.
Our fathers’ dream has been realized Here we stand, America the greatOn democracy but still not finalized,As we are ever changing, no end date
-You lie through your teeth
When it comes to how-are-you’s
“I’m good” or “I’m okay,”
Is what you’d instead say
-Feeling lonely day by day
Not that you weren’t alone in the first place
As the sunlight slips between my fingertipsI watch the shadows fallThey fall in lacy breaths over my skin,Making darkness and light seem so intricate
Dressed in army greens
Brown boots, tags around his neck
Finally he’s home
No trace of a smile
He is very different now
Finally he’s home
He was in the field
The cries of war surround
common soldier
as the men rush onward
in excitement and yell
But the opposition is fierce
and men fall fast
as straight as arrows
Common soldier obeys
That summer I had just turned nineteen
Is when I saw you in shorts of camouflage green.
You saw me when you were playing football with some pals
Unable to move,
Unable to breathe,
I’m afraid for my life
Yet, I don’t want to leave.
In front of me
It sits and stares.
Daring me to face it
I’ll take the dare.
Diamond dust dances from the frozen frontier.
It clings to my eyelashes, but I see him rush to linger.
Ahead he guards me; protects me.
Beyond the beyond, the mask of danger veils.
Tonight is the night.
There is no stopping.
After this, it’s all over, and then what are you going to do?
You’ll have that paper in your hand,
You’ll be done, and where will you go?
“No clue” – she says.
Bravery, a concept of strange humanity
Is it real, does it even pertain to me?
Myth, legend, flaw of the human brain
Something some feel is the need to gain.
Fear is a universal language
Anyone around the world can speak it
But what I'm talking about are cowards
People who will never reach the summit
Freedom Riders
Fighting for freedom
Begging for mercy
Bravery was key
Twelve young people
Begging for their rights
Refusing to back down
Demanding change
"Step, kick, kick, leap, kick, touch. Again."
Wipe the sweat before they see.
"Step, kick, kick, leap, kick, touch."
Just breathe. Ignore the pain.
Keep dancing. Show no weakness.
SMILE!
A crow's warning, the dark, soft death is near.
The danger is in the cruel, withered rage that keeps you in its grip.
The black grave, though rare, turned the girl drowsy as she struggles with her grief.
