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The sun, a splinter,
Breathed the light,
Touching the eye
(Blue).
... Shows dew as it is,
A World of Silence,
Music a Quiet Cadence,
A Light, so Bright, Shines,
Our Hearts a symphony entwines,
Melodies in Life's Balance.
I finally had a moment 2 catch up on take'n the time 2 really read, fully Your Words of encouragement.
And 🤍.
And strength.
And belong'n.
I would always peek @ Your message 2 tickle Me thru hard moments.
The night is chasing the sun. It's always like this at home, the deep sky getting darker the further you tilt your head up. It's nearly black up there, at the top. (The top? The middle? The end?
" MOON LIGHT" 🥀🥀
We living as stars . ✨ But only we don't fall, all night ball, like stars ✨ we own all night under the moon 🎑
light, charging my Star light. I wanna shine bright .
Specks of dust in light
Like falling stars,
Comforting on the worst of nights.
In the headlights of oncoming cars,
Or the dull streetlamp glow.
Moths tremble soft wings,
# Shine Your Light
We are not meant for shadows' cage—
Each soul, a lantern, on life's stage,
Burning bright against the night,
Breaking chains with inner light.
To me you're the sun,And you're right that it's fun,Now in exactly the way that you'd think.Like stretching out just right,In a puddle of light,With a snack, a book, and a drink.
This could be the darkest poem I will ever write
So I will make it a short one
So now it could be the darkest short poem I will ever write
And maybe it already is so let’s start with the light
My mind is a Kaleidoscope of memories that I wish I could burn
But some moments are fireproof
And maybe it helps to see the world through rainbow glasses
Or maybe it’s a curse
And maybe I loved you
Blackened wood with scratches from a pen.The tip tore through paper and bled.The drip of hot wax, signed and sealed.A flame burns below dried flowers.It reaches up to burn the petals.Just out of reach, the flame dies out.A breeze from the open win
I wish to go to the valley of white stones
overturn a few with the tip of my shoe
browse the sandy shores bordered by sandy sea
Endless light bent over expansive quiet
This land of sand and stone, of silent reverie
She smiles at the sun
Taking in its rays with joy
She rejoices in its light
Dances in its presence
And admires its everlasting beauty
My path home is dangerous and unclear,
A sense of peril within me feels like an end,
Surely there must be more than this,
Violently, forcefully, I battle forward,
I am keenly aware of a distant light,
your flickering touch
and cooling brush
the sighing hush
and splendid lush.
such delightful sights
you many celestial lights
*BELIEVING*
_Stick unto God and believe in yourself. *It'd be bright after the dark.* There most be a black *time dark starry night before an open heaven* of a brighter sunny day._
Laser focused burns and cuts.
Stars mere reflections admired from afar.
Sunbeam glow warms, exposing motes.
Cold souls take comfort, then bare their own flame.
Driven by the moon
Though I'm sustained by the sun
I find some refuge in believing
God will hold me when I'm done
Can't see.
Can't breathe.
Drowning...
Wait-
To reach out.
Is it hopeless?
All is lost.
I deny this.
I have not failed.
Take Their hand.
Go to the Light.
Accept Them.
Let's cleanse our inner self from cobwebs of greed n envy
Let's decorate our persona with modesty n generosity
Let's make rangoli of care, empathy n kindness
Let's outshine the darkness of suffering n oppression
how can a nightmare be so bright
of a world filled with darkness
of the bright, its shining light
that leaves people with badness
the dark meets the light in eternal scilence
What could this all be about?
You creep into almost all of my dreams.
I just thought that I forgot about you again, or so it seems.
I honestly haven't seen you in years.
However, forgetting you never comes near.
The pain and the fear are ghosts,
spectres,
a fabrication of reality.
In a moment they will appear and then vanish and I will be left wondering why I followed them into the dark.
The pain and the fear are ghosts,
spectres,
a fabrication of reality.
In a moment they will appear and then vanish and I will be left wondering why I followed them into the dark.
Learning that there is beauty in patience.
The in the meantimes and in between times are purely important.
Its almost as if the struggle that you are ednduring is molding you into a beautiful white butterfly.
Don't be naive bro
Peace only comes through salvation
Everything else is a delusion.
Your task masters have only one mission - to steal, kill and destroy.
Why is it we feel the need to write about love?
Myself especially.
Look around you at the world.
Look at the pain.
Look at the suffering.
Look in the places you never thought to look,
When you’re living in a world of darkness
Like the night with no moon or stars
Feeling like the sun will never rise again
Look towards east
I'm awful sure
i never liked that damned book;
i always rushed through chapters
so i could read anything else
before the bell rang.
But when I open the windows nowadays
The black clouds are rolling in
The lightning cracks like a whip
As the thunder roars with the pride of a lion
The sky's blue slate is wiped clean by the darkest grays
And shadows begin to cover the streets
The sun came out for a moment today and, while I am fully aware that November has hardly begun, I couldn’t help but picture ice dripping on a late-April afternoon.
Shadows sorround me
Nights never go and never ends
Deep waters drowned my hope
And the glittering lights are all gone
Lights of happiness come now
Glimpse your hope to me abound
I see it licking its lips.
Glowing red eyes in
the woods staring at a calf;
a small growl came;the wind
is howling. I stroll to see Goldie.
You were my sunshine and i used to be your moon,
My revolution was around earth yet glowed only for you.
An elliptical love circle, that never meant to end soon,
As I have belief in our love's photon stew.
Light warms you in winter,
And in summer it makes you say no more.
It snares you by its polish.
Scarcely sometimes welcoming,
But mostly sham and dull.
I asked it, "What so special?
Learned the word humble long after the meaning was lost.
Just another product of tax payer exhaustion.
It hurts when referred to as perfect by the person that hurt you the most.
But ima keep it humble
Learned the word humble long after the meaning was lost.
Just another product of tax payer exhaustion.
It hurts when referred to as perfect by the person that hurt you the most.
But ima keep it humble
You hold an entire galaxyWithin your eyes.Shooting stars becoming tearsThat run down your face.
The morning's dawn is rising
Upon the gray-blue sea
That seems to be a shadow
To the eyes of you and me
But slowly the sun overcomes the horizon
And the brightness starts to grow
the room is empty; the wind, stopped.
the room is quiet; the world, silent.
the room is dark, the light has left.
the room is cold, the warmth decided to leave.
Darkness looms for miles
Been down this road for awhile
Walking with a single phone flashlight
All that surrounds belongs to the night
No light to guide my way
Feeling lonely, walking astray
staring out into a glitttering night shimmering by the lights of the city
i begin to think
i think each light is a life
a life that God loves and wants to be touched
Light is ever callingReaching into the dark places
It pursues me when I’m falling
And it has taken the form of faces
Some I know, some not
Light is ever calling
Reaching into the dark places
It pursues me when I’m falling
And it has taken the form of faces
I sit on my front porch in the lemon-lightAnd watch the cyclist, with neat-skimming hair and a self-propelled wind,Zip by in a saturated streak. The world is different, though nothing has changed.
A night with a shining moon
Surrounded by stars all around
When there was silence and everyone was sleeping
No noise or any kind of whispering
Suddenly a voice, I heard
I was astonished and totally feared
This is a story of trial and strife
The silent killer and the bloody knife
But this story is not all that is seems
No, you must look deeper into what it truly means.
The darkness within that consumes a soul
Coleceanth
Have you seen the rain at night
Lumined down by city light?
It pounds upon the asphalt here
Makes fountains clear as crystal tear.
Imagine us
Under the moon
We ignore its beauty
Artemis gives light
In our days of old
Respect was common
The moon is our companion
Not just a figure, but a friend
Some days I feel like a burning candleLong forgotten and wearing thinUntil finally I run outUntil finally I drown myselfUntil finally my light goes outAnd it’s all my fault
Digger sleeps in comfy chair.
Mom is still at work.
Street light shines through the window.
While I have always sought affection amongts the secrets of the night,
Sharing kinship with the shadows,
Relishing fromt the solitary seduction of it,
I cannot ignore the Sun.
It’s time to watch the fireworks
As they fill the sky with light
these small controlled explosions
That seem to split the night
They remind me of my childhood
and of patriotic dreams
Have you ever starred in wonder
At my favorite of sights
A treat that’s only possible
On dark and stormy nights
When the light behind a leafless tree
Seems to set the wood a glow
To him these are strange and darker times of anew,
akin to the rare viewpoints there can be found a few,
whom understand the complexities of humans and emotions,
but for some these are hard to handle, it’s a vast ocean,
3:46 a.m.
on a post-rain Kansas Monday.
I try to wash away
the sleepiness
from my insomnia laden eyes,
pick a fresh sheet of paper
spread clean it almost sheens,
The sun comes down through the dark clouds
The lights go out on a melancoly hill
The dark comes when the light is out of bounds
The light decays in my hands like a disolving pill
Light doesn't last a day or two
Day in, day out
What is it all about?
I can’t deny
This change I’ve taken
Maybe I’ll be different.
I’ve walked through Depression
I’ve walked through Anger
I’ve fought my battles
Trunks thin and the grass fluffy.
The sun shimmered.
In the fantasy.
of love and growth.
But, the darkness--
The light killed it.
So darkness died away.
The light won.
So the forest grow.
The world is at its end,
A primal war has begun.
Mother Nature’s children are fighting
To see who’s the strongest one.
Who will win this war?
Through the sky Death shall rise,
On rotten wings will he fly.
With the stench of torture on his clothes,
He sends Fear into all his foes.
there is no emptier crescent of feeling
than wandering through unfeeling, unending crowds,
more alone than you ever have felt
in your lifetime.
i want to write a poem about you
but its nearly midnight and im so tired i can feel the bags under my eyes building every single time i blink
A work of art is what you are
Galileo would look at you and say "you're a star"
I see your body and see the lines
and see your curves and remember the times
Somethings different about the way you wake up in the morning
A deep breath and a smile as you roll out of bed
Still groggy, but doing your daily steps regardless
There's something odd about the way you walk
It can be found shining through your window in the morning
Or through the leaves on the trees at sunset
You can find it in a reflection on the water
Or in the direction the sunflowers grow
I can not live without the moon.
I can survive, yes, but am unable live.
When the moonlight is gone, the night skies turn bleak.
The forces that banish it I will never forgive.
Reach the sky,
trust the sun
and crave its kindness.
Rely on the orchestra of rain
to quench your thirst.
Depend on the lavish ground
to stand tall.
When Winter dethrones warmth,
There’s always been a darkness
A never-ending pain
A pit of infinite loneliness
A hole within my chest.
I’d tried so hard to be rid of it
From the narrowest sliver of space
Caught between roof and tree
The moon is shining brightly
Through my window to me,
So bright, so fair, so proud it shines
For the briefest glimpse of time
Life without air is a life without life,
dieing in despair is dieing without light,
don't stare at the darkest to long
it will hurt your eyes when the lights turn on,
I slept and I slept, and I slept
Sinking to an insurmountable depth
Couldn’t revive or arrive for a breath
Where am I, who of me is left?
This tailspin, burnout, whatever you call it
I’ve been in love twice,
One was dark
The other light.
Both had their qualities,
I loved them for different reasons.
The dark one was like me,
Through the darkness
There shall always be light
While through the joy
There shall always be fright
But through the pain
There is nothing but might
I was in love once,
And a painful ordeal it was.
I tried so hard to be the perfect one,
To be the one that she wanted.
I didn’t realize then,
Twinkling in the corner of my eyes
Shining past leaves of the trees I pass by
She warms me
Revealing the blinds she is always there
Smiling compassionately with such empathy
It had dark blue eyes like the night sky
Who would of thought it would cry
It wonder down the street as it beg for help
Darkness followed it through the air
One day hoping it sees the light
Will you wait for me?
As I stand on the edge of sand
With water caressing between my toes
Back and forth, back and forth
There is a lull in the wind
Everything stops,
Pay attention to the sunlight,
the sunlight is the most warm, visible radiation of all.
Down, down into the darkness it goes- the hot, the tender, the close.
This little light in me
Lost between the forgotten colours
Stuck in the never ending waters
Drowned with the words in the wind
Cries with rays and lightining and swords
This little light in me
For what’s darkness,
But a contrast to light?
The only reason light can exist
Is because there is darkness for it to illuminate.
Light heals,
Lagoon.
Clear like glass cup
Uncovered by sunlight.
No greenhouse gases are emitted.
Lagoon.
its always been you
you've been there all along
the perfect harmony to my everlasting song
you took my breath away
you made me proud of who i am today
you helped me to see who i really am
And when I look at you.
I see a thought.
The supreme conviction that in spite of ourselves.
We are the light that gives unselfishly to ourselves.
The pieces we constantly give to each other,
The sun can not be compared to
the light shining from your eyes,
the sweet honey from your voice.
Oh, how the birds enjoyed your singing.
Hands, ever so crafting refuge,
a mighty ark,
there’s a darkness that dwells
under the sheets that i sleep in,
filling the void with an emptiness.
it reeks of burning ice and rotten dreams
and some nights it threatens to suffocate me.
One last entry before the night comes to an end,
One more thought before the sheep comes-
Slowly one by one,
A puffy little cloud strutting aimlessly
Above an unsurfaced ground.
One last note to play-
A hopeless romantic, a hopeless dream
That’s what is real, and it’s all it will be.
To crush false hope at the source of its seam.
You brought me into this world
Instilled your hope, genes, and dreams into my soul
Mom,
Through these 20 years
I've had many fears
You've wiped away so many tears
My heart is full
Light, sunshine within me.
Luminous and free,
This is what I aim to be
A concept so sweet,
A mindset so lovely,
I strive to embody light throughout all of my body.
“You are the thunder that echoed through the night;
died off in the distance and stayed out of sight.
Every day an endless nightmare;
every night a dying dream.
A sleepless heart,
I fight the darkness of the heart
The hidden and dangerous part
Closed with a bolt, local and key
The secret of forgotten past left to be
Lost, there is no way I see out,
Deepening darkness creates my doubt
You learn from your most frightening experiences
The ones that break your soul
The experiences that steal your mind and light
The experiences that change your outlook on the world
Once the light has been revealed to you
it is inescapable
you open your eyes and there it is
filing into you
but you still blink
Yes, the color of my skin is a few shades lighter than the typical "black girl"
No, I do not consider myself 'lightskin'
Contrary to what half of the population believes the color of my skin is not an explination for my behavior
How am I supposed to see the light,
When I am encompassed by an ever growing cloud of darkness?
I have no power, I have no might
Come along on my journey, be my witness
Between the lines I see light
But any type of light it's the kind of light
That you would want to touch
That you can imagine what it would be like to be in that area
golden girl you are more
your skin
smoother
than the finest belgian chocolate
it glows like
Words
They drip from my fingers like sap from a broken tree
I think them and they pour, especially in high weather
The weather that comes from tumultuous times.
ze s'letia qaelu nav ai 'maecra' vintavte'm viir nul dils e' zeano un iirunnul 'maecra' reihia raehiaene raisu rau'r
Hanging from the edge of the world
A grip on this reality waning
A river in flight and a flowing sky
An upside down
My celestial home
i am the stars.
i am not the moon.
i am not the sun.
i am not the brightest thing in the sky
What if life were a glowing light
that shown through death and cut the night?
Where then would it go if I were to die
would it flicker out or maybe hide?
Dear Anxiety,
Not a day goes by where I am without you
Not a day goes by where I like you
From holding me back
To making me cry
From filling my head with negatvity
To making me freeze
To my First,
I remember the day that I witnessed your impressionable smile and sparkling eyes.
I remember the tiny flutter of my heart, that feeling that you were going to mean something to me.
To you,
the struggling rainbow after each dark storm.
To you,
my gorgeous warrior,
my faithful sun.
Do not stop fighting,
but if you must,
do not let yourself be silenced.
Arielle, you were light you were gone before we saw this when you left it was dark I couldn’t see who could replace such a beautiful thing nobody so it stays dark, like the darkness right after the sun sets i pretend like it’
Dear, Annie
Every morning another dark day, until you.
Every day grey and blank, until you.
Every time the outside looks brighter.
Every look makes me shutter.
You are everything to me.
The little candle burns its wick,With fiery whisper drops a drip,A passion only seen from near,A slowly shrinking, darting tip.
Dear Ex Best Friend,
I stand upon the shore of roaring sea
Attempting to see all that I have lost.
I dream what might have been and still might be.
I am a beacon of light,
Through my vains and heart,
We're no longer apart.
Stars shine bright,
Take me in flight,
Let me burn bright.
There is history in light. A
story written on everything
it touches; perhaps I want to feel it and let my body yearn to remember you in the morning
like a sunburn.
Dear Amy, It’s Dave, your Big Brother, Happy Birthday! How old would you be turning today? 8, that’s right! Your growing up so fast! Well, I finished my first semester of High School! And guess what?
we are more.
more than you remember.
we were fire.
maybe I was just the lighter
maybe you were all the trees burning off us
maybe you saw me as the candle,
To the little fire inside,
Hello Dear Friend.
It’s me again.
I thought I would write to thank you
A celestial light
Shined bright
Like a light beam
In an ethereal dream
A dream of spectrums
Of ideal perfections
Tasted now, a love so pureSugar sweet, a cyder richA love by no other name,Which can be called thisIt's warmth embraces, even the distantA flame, a light, burning deepThe darkest of hearts can not escape
I thought the sunset was beautiful,
Until I thought about you..
Then I remembered the darkness that comes with a setting sun.
It makes sense to me now though,
The stars in his eyes
Sparkle like the midday sun
Always guiding me
He supports my dreams
Letting me live through white stars
And the steam of my coffee
He compliments me
Whenever you're down, my best friend,
When you feel as though the world is against you,
I'll be right there next to you.
And when you feel as though nothing matters,
Or that your burdens are too heavy,
no light at the end to guide you
even though I'm pointing the way
you will ignore me,
won't you
because you think I speak lies
but I wouldn't lie to you
I couldn't because
you're too deep
We are all cardinals in the night,
standing bloodred against the shadows
as we strive to hide.
Our feathers conceal tears
which have sprung from our veins.
Soar to the sky.
Because I love you,
I love the smell of rain.
Because I love you,
I love the sound of trains.
Because I love you,
I learned to love myself more.
Because I love you,
My world knows no war.
Mother, she is light.
She bounces off tin-foil lakes, soothing tides.
She warms the back of my eyes every dawn.
She is a sunspot amongst freckles and stars.
She lets me look on beauty.
The universe doesn't care about us.
We are nothing but specs of dirt on it's cosmic shoe.
So we sit, we wait, we hold on for a day the universe decides to be kind.
But what if we didn't have to?
I was sitting in the middle of the nightExactly at the roof of our houseTrying to find stars That can serve as the lightThe light in the middle of the darknessIn the middle of the night without any light
My girl is like a starry night.
But without the bleakness.
And only the stars.
Sometimes there are clouds,
But they are clouds of anxiety
That cover up the light and glints
Of fiery spikes of planets.
We cannot mix God and the world
Light and darkness
Nor the flesh and Spirit
It is ridicules
God would spit you and me
Where am I going?
Where have I been?
Where am I headed?
Where have I stayed?
Where have I grown?
Where have I diminished?
In the coldest Winter
you were the coat that kept me warm
Made from many patches
all my favorite colours
I trust you like the fire
treading through snow storms
With your embrace comes wisdom
I have ben in the slums of life,
up to my knees in the murkey waters of rejection
I have been knocked down, forced onto m knees by life
and yet, I still rise
I do not rise for the glorifiction of myself
As the paint-soaked brush lightly glossed the enamel of my nails, I felt the cool purple color brighten up my mood. Until, my mother said, “You’re painting your nails pink?!
It may not always be easy,
it may not always seem right
but the path to higher consciousness is always in plain view, in clear sight
It is of course the path less traveled by,
I am unstoppable, limitless, unbeatable...ME
I can do what I want, and I want to be...ME
Everything inspires me, nothing ever tires me
I am constantly discovering the new that I am, have become, am about to be
Cold, wet, dark.Everything i wish was not.There’s no warmth, no other lifeWhat was left was only rotThe sun does not shine,No smiles of mine.In this place so dim and drearyI find myself so wearyYet no cure shall ever cure meNo light will ever find
Just came up from school
When I pick my assignments
Out from my bag
To get things started.
The darkness strikes
So I had gone turning on the lights.
But I was shocked
The Darkness of Night
By Ryan G.
Darkness had fallen, dressed in black
The army stood, no light
This past year of late,
I changed, as one would say-
But untraceable to the outside world,
Only I know the change.
All people walking this Mother Earth.Did you know you have eternal worth?That you hold within a true radiant light.Did you know it is a spiritual guide?Did you know there's more to life than to work and die?That you came to earth to live a greater
Upon a time it first was bornFrom a wedding reception box with wrapping tornLetting light fall upon the newlyweds' giftSoon began to move the infant child's fists A red, roman numeral clock
I couldn’t tell you what I thought at the beginning of this year
Every word people said were just words that…
Bounced off my ear
I graduated high school with a 4.0
Easy for me, everyone expected me to
The low thumping beat in my brain,
Is featured with depressing lyrics.
I feel the need to cry,
Yet I restrain.
That was my first song of 2016.
Reaching out
And reaching out.
Help the helpless
But I am the helpless.
Standing out is too much
Blending in is too little.
Towering stadium lights
blinded like me nothing else before it.
They illuminated
the best things about me.
The fire that
burned
so deeply in my soul I was sure
it would be eternal.
Mom lights a candle
A diya, a lamp
I have to choose
Red or blue
Voices of reason
Larger, louder
Bright light, lovely pale flesh,
reflecting blue as the moonlight catches movement,
as fingertips dance across flesh,
hot and humid breath catching at the back of your throat,
In the dark I was lost.
In the dark who was I?
Hollow like an open shell.
Needy for a soul to cling to.
Then you whispered softly,
"I am who you seek."
Hands stretched wide you craddled me.
They say light and darkness clash
Obviously they haven’t met us before,
I do stupid stunts but I’ll never crash
I can hear a rose cry
It's Time to go
I was able to get through
I'm sure I'm happy now
I was in a fog
The Sun hid behind a tree
The east consumes the Sky
Yet darkness disappears
Last year,
Long ago,
You would not recognize me
For who I am today.
I was a Royal Bitch,
I was a Demon in human skin,
Crawling and scratching and whining
My way
To the outside world.
i.
you're cold.
two cats on your lap. a dog at your side.
messages awaiting on your phone
it's not plugged in.
you aren't plugged in.
please be okay.
how are things going?
You didn't know that when you met me,I was sad.You didn't know when you met me that I didn't know how sad I actually was.You didn't know that when you
A gust of wind.
I am dislodged from my cradle.
My blanket is ripped away.
My family shrinks in the distance.
I crash to the ground.
The light blinks out as I am covered in a new blanket.
I am cold.
One doesn't have to know
for one to understand
They just have to listen
and be there to hold your hand
It's not too complicated
to show them that you care
Treat them with respect
As the sun slowly rises
And gently wakes me with the touch of its ray,
I greet the day with gratitude laced with longing.
This hunger animates my entire being,
Sharpening my senses, a new way of seeing.
The pursuit of Light is my soul's calling.
I am a Light Huntress.
My days sim a little dimmer than they use to be
The cold, dark clouds seek refuge in my heart
I ask why I even bother to get up
Because out of the darkness, there is in fact a light
That tunnel runs from me
What awakens my eyes?
What seemingly invisible something
Sparks my passion, without wrinkling my soul
I grow older
They ask me why I have the courage to roll out of bed
With only positive thoughts passing through my head
What do you live to see?
The sun is so powerful
Bright with extra radiant
Extraordinary light illuminates the sky
The light kisses my face
Oh how I feel the warmth of its embrace
I open my eyes
I used to pray for cancer
For the distraction from the worldly worries
And a catapult to the spiritual ones.
I used to pray for cancer
It's a dark prayer I know
But the darkness seemed like light.
What energizes one in early morning?
The favorite song drifting through the air
The symbol that the day is not for mourning,
But the beginning of the new, awakened by the music blare
My eyes are closed
The sun is out
Though I’m still enclosed
I can hear them shout
I look out to the rising sun
I looked in the mirror and I saw a woman. A black woman with power, an independent woman, a woman with the vision to change the world.
Clouds may hide sunshine,
but they bring me smiles.
showing beauty and grace,
never defiled.
They give me perspective,
prove that Im so small,
yet strong enough
not to fall.
They want to understand me.
They want to know how I work.
They want to cut me open and see my gears
Turning and turning.
They want me to tell all my secrets,
Tell my every thought,
Standing back
To see it all
Every vivid curve
Paint portraying
Each lesson learned
Each moment of pain
Each difficult day
To see it all
Connect and flow
A light
A single light can mean so much in times of turmoil.
But, I realize now it's not so much the light as the source from which it gleams from.
The flames die out.
Ghostly traces of red and orange and purple haunt the sky.
The last moments of light cling to the clouds as the weight of the sun is dragged down.
Resting place.
Somberness rises with the moon.
Out of the darkest shell I emerge,
Bringing Out a path once trailed
I Arrive; With a story to tell
From a past once bitter
To a Path Now Fitter
Short note: the following poem is in Villanelle style.
As words that infuse life into a dark place,
Poetry gave a face to the tangled mess in my mind,
As strokes on a page that probe a soul’s triumph and waste.
Look past the outskirts of the town of stray men
Where none think to trod
A black wall caging in the livestock
All together lost within an arbitrary boundary
Run blindly past the seam of shadow and light
Surrounded by darkness
Your light shines the brightest
Out of all the stars
You catch my eye
Abolishing the terrible darkness
Launching me into the light
Your love keeps me grounded
In the summer dawn I took to the mountain and field,
Hopping the creek, and breathing the spearmint yield.
Passing the pond, I startle the heron perched in the pine,
The first ray of light
at the break of
dawn
The sunrise seeking
out of the
clouds
The sunset slowly drifting
away from the
horizon
A speck of dust
Spiralling through eternity
Gathering momentum
Navigating the endless space
Does it matter where it's headed
Can it stop its grand descent
Compulsions undescribed
No outlet for emotions
A cage of my own making
But I forgot the door
Tick tock
Goes the clock
Ticking my thoughts away
Deeper and deeper inside my cage
Darkness will never overcome you
For you are the light,
So long as you accept this geass,
We shall make it through the night
Sparkling silence is cast over a room
before the listeners start to swoon.
This poet reads her words so smooth
bringing back her own youth.
The words she says speak
In the dark you see light -
I see the flames.
That's not the Sun burning -
This heat has no name.
The kitchen's on fire,
so I run out the door.
You stop in the middle
I saw the farthest star from here and I knew that was real
I raised my hand and reached my finger tips up, out, and past this Earth
Until I was one with the rest of the universe
Until I was bigger than the farthest star
To my nightly lover:
You are just a phase I grow out of in the morning
and the excuse i come crawling back to at night
I never needed a reason to dream
You rant to the sky and lay blame to the earth, for it's gravity is keeping you from flying.
As passionate as you are, your fire starts to die as the sunlight begins to fade.
Fear.
A devil straight from hell
Causes anger to swell
Fear.
A demon
With long wings
Laced with blood
Dripping down
Like a butterfly after rain
The eyes
She walked in the room quite unsure of herself,
Everyone peered up towards her self conscious frame,
She felt like the last book picked on the shelf,
The girl sat alone in the corner knowing she'd never feel the same.
She always allowed music to follow her around.
She tapped out rhythms
and be-bopped and scat. She crooned
I do not like having to squint.
The bright lights are unwelcomed, I do not like the way it glints
against the tile on the floor, or wood on this desk
need you because it takes the two of us,
To move smoky mountains and conquer forbidden fountains, remember…
I need you because it takes the both of us,
I've spent a lifetime in this room.Certain sources of light.Various lamps have come and gone,all lasting different times.Wherever they have been placedin the dark box that is my room,
It seems we are doomed to watch
the way mankind ravages itself, tearing and yanking
blowing holes in itself until
the Titanic could float better than it.
we see the
kidnappings and
rape
Things.
Things.
Things.
So many things.
Stuffed into the closet. Shoved under the bed. Scattered on the floor.
More like caked onto the floor.
Do I even have a floor?
dear, all i need is you,
and i think we both know that
all i need,
all i need is your hand wrapped in mine and
all i need to see
is your face because
dear, i swear
They have withered.
The crumbling giants,
With hats hung, hefty pockets, and
Swollen skulls—all teeth and
Smiles—weighing heavy on their
Sagging shoulders.
Pale, blind giants who shudder at
So simple we forget about it
So important we can't live without it
So universal we don't speak about it
but it's always there for us
through thick and thin
A midnight sky that dwells within is one without a moon or stars,
It knows no light.
So my dear don't dream of dark nights for it is only street lights that make the night more beautiful than daylight.
There are shadows
Down the hall
In the corner
On the walls
Words are shallow
I hear voices
Some are deep
Most are small
They direct me
And inform me
She clutched the broken objects,
Held them to her chest.
They constantly mocked her life,
Called it a mess.
But they couldn’t see the tears,
I’m surrounded by darkness,
No light to harness.
It suffocates me like a cave,
No oxygen for my lungs to save.
I claw, I cry, yearning for light
Hope is one I cannot live without.
She cradles me as I sob on my knees, scraping them on once-holy ground, now tainted by blood and hate.
In the dark, she guides me, a beacon of light where none exists.
Those who have felt it know
its impossible now to forget.
How consuming the darkness is
yet we were not done, were we?
We still have our time left,
our strength to move on.
"Come, Consume me," I say.
I am going to live
I am going to run with the stars and
Scream at the sky
James Joyce will hold my hand
And we will walk in a connected world
As the trees mutter a familiar tune
Rakish reflections pass from an
Aging streetlight to grace your cheek;
The soft touch of that fragile golden glow
Compliments the green looking back at me
The smell of smoke is fast asleep
I need the light
Whether it's form is in friendship, love, happiness. I crave the warmth that
encases me when I'm with it. The light I mean.
We live in a society of possessions, wants and needs flow into one as we cling to items claiming we have to have them to survive.
Lurking in unsual places
Often hard to find,
Shining bright on strangers faces
with grace it falls to the blind,
Making doubters optimistic
Showing things in diffrent light
Even though you can no longer see me
Look at the sun when it rises
Look at the moon and stars
Even though you no longer feel me
The man who saved me If your world is darkIf your eyes are weary and your heart heavy If you feel alone and forgotten If you feel like your mind is an enemy and it attacks you with more ferosity than a starved man whom you've stolen his last penny
Of the nails on the cross through the hands,
All I need is the blood of the Lamb.
Of the Light piercing the Darkness,
All I need is the grace of the One True King.
Of the penetrating power of his might,
If you see me drown alone
See me standing on my own
In a world of complications
I have intricately sown
If you hear me in the night
Shedding tears over a loss
Darkness
Is when all your senses
Are barred behind a high stone-walled mentality
Darkness
Is when your conscience
Is unaware of reality
Darkness
A heart can be corrupted,
Suffocating under the malicious hand of darkness,
Its armor chipped away piece by piece
By the thoughts that torment our souls,
Like a drug it takes you overAnd it never let's you goYou try n' get away from it, but it never gives you up
I love that you
stand taller than me
your soul
is the closest thing to heaven
I've ever felt
God knew that
so he built you
accordingly
You were thereMy beginningYou helped chase the shadowsTrustI gave it to you willinglyI give it you stillI will never regret itYou showed me powerA love I had never seenUndying
In the midst of chaos
stands a lone rock.
This rock doesn't waver
nor does it speak.
It just sits there,
before the fray and
watches.
Everything around the
rock, leans forward
In life we are given many tokens of worldly greatness,Staring us in the eyes through a mist,A dark fog with nowhere to see anything in front of us,Except for those objects that are inanimate.
Calm and graceful,
Fluttering in the wind
Their attraction to bright colors
Of flowering plants
Their life span so short,
Yet their wisdom so great
Beautifully inspiring
"The shadows are long
The shadows are dark
They always lurk
They leave no mark
The shadows are big
The shadows are deep
The shadows fall
As the world sleeps
The shadows return
I strive to be the tree
Who stays rooted with gentle strength
I strive to be the wind
Formless and ever present
I strive to be water
Able to become any situation
I strive to be the bird
Here in the garden, kaleidoscopic.
Here where I took and ate, saccharine.
Here she was born.
Let me go
Please stop it.
My veins crepuscule.
Eyes dark
Lips dark
A blanket of time
covers our eyes.
Fire rains down from the sky
and water grows from salt.
We have shifted.
Fallen. Fast and deep into
nothing
save for imaginary realities.
the boy had fingertips made of pure white flames
back when the walls were closing in,
i was unrecognizable
my own skin had an elusive disguise
it was drenched in icewater
the boy had fingertips made of pure white flames
back when the walls were closing in,
i was unrecognizable
my own skin had an elusive disguise
it was drenched in icewater
I dug myself a grave in the ground
It was like 60 feet down
For years I'd walk the edge
Then one day I fell like a rebound
In that dark that was musky too
Though I was alone I still heard the "I NEED YOU"s
We hope to see trees in bloom
we hope to see them all
we hope to see afternoon
we hope to see night fall
we hope to see beauty come
we hope to see life knew
we hope to see the moon run
In the darkness I heard a voice,
It wasn't screaming for help, it was asking for someone to join them.
I never understood why this was.
It wasn't until after her that i realized no one wants to be alone in the darkness
Does pain really cease?
Or is it a mere conformity?
Does darkness provide ease?
Or simply consume the light we no longer see?
The darkness
Surrounds me
knawing at me and
saying "come, come"
The hands
r e a c h
for me but I stand firm.
This will not happen
My thoughts circle
rapidly.
Humans naturally fear the darkBut welcome light,A bright spark,A flameHowever, light often leads to painFor it illuminates our wrongsAnd we are visible and transparentAll our sins apparent
Young King, Stand here with me as we face the darkness
And as light seems to fade and the shadows rise
Fear and hopelessness take hold
And as my strength weakens
I feel the end come near, only to be
Just move off into your world
Just leave this world behind
Stop picking up the pieces
of an old broken life
Follow the Light
Walk in it!
Walk in Him.
Let Him shew you the way
On the forbidding ground I lay,
As the trees above me sway.
The clouds above me roar with thunder;
Don’t wake me from my dreamless slumber.
I feel a hurricane is near;
It’s so hard to not feel fear.
He can never be predicted
He even brings the mighty king's
down from their Thrones
He is never impressed
by their Titles the king's get
or for the Status these earthly king’s hold.
Unlike any other,
I can not settle with any color,
I can not choose one passion over the other
I think that they complement one another.
Only in
Light
I am light
Soft and beautful, resilient and bright
I am a guide through darkness an aid with no strite
I am neither her nor there,
but simply everywhere
Caught between the battle of wrong and right
Cavern.
Plic.
An endless cavern.
Plic.
Plic.
Upon first glance, there is only darkness.
Plic.
Plic.
But to those who wait...
To those who listen
Plic.
The air is stiff, as if the wind is holding its breath,
and there is a coolness to the air, soothing, calming, peaceful.
The grass is soft from where I'm sitting,
as if inviting me to stay and enjoy the moment.
Where do i stand
All my life
back when my mom was still alive
she would always notice my brother and give him what he wants
i was 8 he was 16
he was bound to college i'm still bound for nothing
With summer laze and winter days
we wend our ways
in the silence of the night.
And creeping still, thoughts mill
amongst the dying of the bright.
But what comes will be and what be will comes
Whiskey-colored rays of light coming from the window dragged me out of bed.
I don't have a grand life
Every night isn't filled with parties and friends
Most days I enjoy my own company
walking in nature
feeling the wind blow throw my hair and between my
fingertips
Once destined to be forgotten in darkness
To not recieve any sort of hope
But instead was abandoned by all
Until one day a miracle happened
A hand reached out to me
Tick Tock the clock mocks straight from up ahead
As I lay, Time keeps pounding down upon my head.
My head lays heavy on the dark blue sheets of my bed
No matter what I do sleep is something that I dread.
Some days, the night comes too early
But others, too late
I wonder why the crickets begin their song
While I am still dancing
At dusk, the critters come
They bite and buzz and light
Over the mountains
Across the seas
Through the tunnels
Under the trees
The wind blows here
All over the world
The voice is heard
The wind whispers
“Caution, Danger is near”
There is so much to give and so much to do. Don't let anyone ever hurt you.
You are beutiful and perfecty inperfect in your own and uniqe ways.
Show the world who you really are and what you are capable of.
I am different.
Not in visage, nor style, nor walk,
Not in avocation, nor mannerism, nor talk,
But in hope and dream and state of mind.
I am different
In that
The radioactive waves of lies
Isolated with my thoughts, dwindling into emptiness
Wishing there was something to rip the pain from my chest
Breathing becomes more difficult as my eyes begin to swell
Deny the light you are given for it is precious and given without sacrefice. It rises for you daily, untiredly. Again and again it rises for you, yet you deny its wonderful gift.
The world spins around in shades of black
All around my head my own thoughts betray me, planning their attack
I wish I could scream
Or wake up from this horrible dream
A never ending feeling of floating
The Sun
She brings us life and joy; despair
Her silent song a covenant of care–
Our faithful servant in the air
A gilded messenger, inasmuch:
~Lumos~
There once was a time when all was dark,
Where all who feared feared his mark.
Those who fought him died,
And those who ran away, cried.
They dare not speak his name,
earliest rays find the absent spaces, to peak in a window pane
eyelids fight the disruptive rays, but bouncing signals in the brain awake
ghosts departe, the darkness dispersing in primitive light
Blood is shed by the hands of men,
Deep scarlet runs through the streets.
When did this form of genocide began?
With blood, human hands are streaked.
It seems as if everyone has lost touch
Radiance emitted from beyond
this cage,
made palpable through a hole
tiny in size,
seemed to quell my rage
fear let assauge,
curiosity continuing to rise I set off to
Although pain is ever present,
And sorrow never ceasing,
Light by the sun is always sent,
Happiness ever increasing.
No nigt lasts forever,
As the earth and all its glory
When the land is dark
And all is lost
I strain to see
The light following me
But it is there
And always will be
That light shines
So bright, you see
Is hope
the moon's like God's flashlight for the lost in the night sky;
like God's spotlight to let you know he sees you and that you're a super star in your own right with your own light;
like Heaven's porch light to let you know
He walks at home
in the streets alone
a lone light Glimmers
as his day starts to fade
a satchel for his car
and a lighter for his fuel
he drifts off into another star evening
"Would you be like the others?", I pondered.
It began with art and a hint of hesitancy.
This was my thing. Our thing.
And now you are here to share it. With us.
One of the most magical days of my life
Follow me in to the great bright light
Where courage knows no cowardice
And fear has no place among the bold
Follow me in to the rich golden light
Where dreams are achieved
Pink,
Fluffy,
Swirled world.
What shall we call this,
This creation?
A sunset.
It's wonderful,
Some could say,
Perfect.
Far from it dear,
The Raven and The Light
The bird that flys in the night,
you shall call him crow.
I may call him winged king.
The name beats in my heart.
Heavens Rain
I do not know If my skin will ever be as clean as others seen
But i dream to let go of a constant stream..
Aesthetic symmetry floods me
What if i told you there is hope?
What if I told you there is an end?
Would you believe me?
Are you afraid of the dark?
Of silence
Of stillness
Of nothingness
The vast emptiness
U try to make out shapes in the blank space
Can you see it
I see everything
As a child, the world around me seemed bright,
The vibrant hues of nature and life
Intrigued me so with a blinding light
That masked the toils and strife.
Through art, I found myself,
I suppose we all know one day we'll die
to some of us that might sound like a sweet relief
For others it may be a biggest fear.
For some, Life has been hell
For others much better
This sadness.
I feel my chest being crushed ever so slowly.
Pushing harder and slower. Farther and lower.
My heart throbs like a beating drum before battle.
Behind the filter I am Sylvia.
Behind the likes and "thumbs up" I am Lucy.
Before the mascara I am a daughter.
Named by my free spirited parents'
Name sake of shimmering light in the forest.
In darkeness, there is light.
In the rain, there is sun shine.
So even while I'm unable to grasp the pai, my mind is at ease.
For even through death is life.
I am of flesh
I breath sin
I keep to myself
what lies within
But do express
And I'll give you notice
When storms draw near
I feel their closeness
Love one love all
Ode to Darkness
You have existed
since the beginning
of time
and for too many years
and to too many minds
have been
misunderstood
The light that shines
From the inside out
It's beautiful-I have no doubt
I see your light
It's not like mine
It's brighter, stronger
All the time
Can you see my dulling glow?
They say your eyes,
When given time,
Become accustomed
To the night.
Though dark and eerie
One great shadow,
Night penetrated
Glows to light.
It is a lie.
She is his sun
Helping him find his way.
After all the rain
Falling in his world for so long
Someone is here to brighten his day.
She is his white moon
Saving him from an eternal night
A mind as vast as the universe,
Can get lost in the depths of time.
But pause,
Look around at your company,
For the stars will be your guide.
on the corner of Madison and Wells, a ghost with a gray cotton tee and tattered jeans saw my red lace dress and started deer hunting. he wasn’t timid, only lanky, and gripped the ground
Everyone has a flaw
That makes them unique
Every mistake
Wish could retake
A teacher we hate
That laughs at our fate
He father of lies
Larks at our lives
When suffer we
Drowning, drowning, drowning…
Please, someone save me…
But his voice is lost
In the suffocating dark recesses
Of loneliness.
I have no one.
Solitude envelopes him
In her arms,
Birth of Dawn
look down,
breath's thick in your mouth,
drifting out like dragonsmoke.
the grass beneith your feet,
damp with the crisp kiss of false dawn.
See the Light
Watch its smile
Across my sight
Creating my style
My struggle you must
Never understand
But brush the Dust
From this brand
Assist my comfort
I gave up a lot
To pursue this love
But now it seems
That I was blind and dumb
I dedicated my life
My entire childhood
To pursue a dream
Let us arise swiftly
Let our movements be done
Abruptly
Like the wind
So that they may never catch us
Us,
We who lay in the shadows
Hiding in the darkness
for we know no fear
Won't you hold me tight
In the middle of the night
Don't turn on the light
Hold me with all your might
You know it ain't right
If we have a fight
That seems to be my plight
But your out of sight!
Oct 5 2014
The sun is sitting on the crown of the trees just due east. Reaching her arms through its leaves,
Holding it. Like a mother hugs her child.
Little boy don't you see?
This life I live isn't made for you nor me.
For what I carry and for what I hold.
This fixture you have of me, isn't the truth of what I told.
Little boy don't you see?
I stay positive for friends and foes.
They're the ones who need it the most.
I try to be the light of their lives.
Just to keep them one more night.
Alive.
They need to know someone cares.
Curtains are pulled for protection
To hide what we don’t want to be seen
To shade us from investigation
To protect us from reality
But is it any safer to be in the dark?
To stay in just one place?
Exact image shown in a different light
Image relected back to you
shows you the way others view you.
I look to you,Then to myself,Then to my life,
Past wretched falure upon failure,Bewitched by hollow hopes.
My love never was,It never should have been
I was always the last person in line, the last seat at the back of the classroom, and the last person to speak.
I was one in the dark, you know?
Following a pace
Destruction was its face
Tall and Slim
Dark and Grim
Too much to care.
The light
Was too fair
My itchy ears
In a world full of chaos and hate,
you wanna know what lifts me up...
you wanna know what makes me smile...
you wanna know how I am able to persevere,
I prize my gift from the sun,
the smooth ebony blanket
that trails in my path.
It bears the token of my progress,
like a toll booth of past endowments,
always full of unanswered prayer.
Heroes can only be stars
If they have a night sky
To shine against
But I never asked
To be the darkness
Fingertips slide across my lips,
And joy floods to my soul.
Blood rushes to my skin,
I blush away,
I feel the sin.
Why on earth am I this way?
Yearning and burning
Sometimes the stars align
just right
To make a single point of brillaince
so intense it leaves
a spot in your vision
Fear is a source of vengenance
Powering all to ingnite in its glory
We are weak and fall frail
We allow this to overcome our thoughts
Making us into something we never even imagined.
You were a great mom
You always did a good job
You took care of me and my life
And you were always a great friend
When times had changed I became the mom
I began taking care of you
That which makes me tick is hard to define
Is the antidepressants stabilizing my mind?
Is it the fear of failure or being left behind?
Is the incessant tick tock ticking of time?
Flashing gems mount the noble crown
Dashing passions paint the milky gown
Pulsing plights sound within the hue-ringed hole
Convulsing fashions taint the beautiful soul
Like fire cascading down the mountains .
Setting ablaze he trees.
With the last spot of light to be seen .
Enforcing a relaxed mood in the atmosphere.
After a hard days work
Humbled by pin drops
Of dust
And of fire
Burning the darkness and filling the nothing
Surrounding her,
She closed her eyes and wished herself
To a night where they couldn’t see her,
On the first night of our secret meeting we can ran wild like the wind.
Just you and I and the moon.
The moon shined so bright it rivaled the sun.
Our sun, your light, my fire.
Walking down the street with tear in my eyes and you still have words to say to me?
My head in the ground, dirt in my face and your still kicking me?
Darling, light that cigarette
Let the ashes fall
With them your dreams
Cause tomorrow when you wake up
You'll realize we never met
Standing on that boardwalk
In the dark of night
The devil is chasing me
Always has been
Since the day I was conceived
He tries to make me give in
Though there're many enticements
And many temptations
So much energy,
In one small space.
Shining light all over the place,
Bright and bold
It takes the gold
Lantern shine bright,
all through the night.
In the overshadowing darkness
where despair takes life
and hope is nothing but a word.
Where faith has no meaning
and trust has fallen to sorrow.
In the consuming darkness
What is hope
Is it the illogical sense of knowing everything will be alright?
Is it stupid
Is it smart
What is hope
Is it wishing something that you want comes true?
Is it selfish
Here's one from several months back:
Weighed down by the mistakes of my past
A pebble, a rock, a mountain on my shoulders
At first I ran, regrets like quicksand sucking at my feet
You don't have to let them take you down.
You don't have to let them turn your smile into a frown.
#what?
Why does this pressure just make me freeze.
Why do I constantky watch myself in the mirrior instead of stick my head out of it's cage.
All I want is to live my life outside these bars.
Primitive light envelopes the birch logs in heliotrope.
Autumn leaves adopt an auburn glint.
Crouched moon in the southern sky.
This is the place astronomers call
Shattering dawn -
I am stuck in a very confined place
Where there are decisions I need to make
But no one can understand my true face
As I proclaim out loud “it’s a piece of cake”
With these thoughts my head spins frantically
There is a burning light
Red and gold dancing in my soul
A fiery passion kept in a cage
Beautiful and powerful, but no need to be afraid
Walk a mile in my shoes
Then you’ll know what it’s like to choose
Between making a life of your own and leaving the nest
The darkness descends.
Hello, my friend.
Hisssssss.
Remember the pain, remember the lies,
Remember the feelings you disguise.
Terrifying cold, the biting steel
Running red so you can feel.
Green and white clothes
with a hat just too big,
tiny yellow shoes
waiting for the day.
Unknown Sorts
Become my torch
Beauty in light
Guide me through this twilight
Stronger than others
Your powers all I need-
The only thing I see.
You see, what'chu got
Is all they all really need.
My dream job
Storm clouds gather in the afternoon skies
Like doubts and fears clouding my eyes
They used to be hazel, now they're grey
Once they shown like a bright autumn day
self inflicted pain
I'm pouring salt in my own wounds.
Stuck in the past;
time doesn't heal after all.
Thoughts in your mind
are constantly telling you
You're not good enought to weak,
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,
Honesty is all I would change
maybe if we all could be genuine love would not be in vain
if I could change the roles of honesty
maybe a liar would feel the victims pain
He lied to me that's why I feel this way
Marked by shades
Chained by judgment
Being blinded by false imagery
Colors of white to dark
Long plagued our kind
Below The Heavens
Below the dawn of day
Hear the trumpet
Smooth and vibrant
A sweet melody
Seek out the meadows
Upon this day
Into the night
Come out upon my sight
As silent as a ghost
I sit by old candlelightin the dead of nightfinishing my workwhich has become an irk.Now I cravewhat is unattainable by day(unless you live in a cave).The succulent silence of slumber
There is a fire
that wells
inside of my stomach
A raging flame
slowly burning every inch
of my flesh
as darkness settles over
inching
creeping
The throbbing pulse of the silenceMade immune to the deadening enclave of walls of stoneIn this captivity, but one soul exists And calls this asylum her homeOne lives and soundlessly breathes here
Darkness is a fellow who doesn't believe in light
They've never met, he claims
He stares at me with eyes I can't see
As if he is deranged
After a time, he is so tired and dismayed
Twinkle Twinkle little starI do not know where you areAll I see is an expanse of blackAnd I wish all my stars would come back.
roses are red
violets are blue
sugar is sweet
if only you were too
youve sreded my heart
like it was paper thin
you crumpled my soul
like a can made of tin
Darkness
noun
The partial or total absence of light
There once was a world that was darkBut in one girl there was a small light.This girl was able to leave a mark
Cloaked by shadows,Enshrouded in mystery,You stalk through the night. The book is open,The fate unwritten,You search for what is right.
Darkness fell with innocence in tow
The serene sky marred by gunshot smoke
Signed by Death’s fiery signature
And crossed with wails that frayed stable ground.
Everyone, everywhere
love me, desire me
Let me be in all of your wet dreams and fantasy
men, women, all alike
I need to feel loved and wanted.
if I wasn't so careful I would allow
The world is notBlack and whiteIt's gray -Millions of shades of itAnd it's hard to knowWhat's rightAnd wrongAnd what's in-betweenIn that gray area
The peoples of the earth have looked wide,
But few have looked at the side
Where the light shined the most bright.
They didn't want to look straight into the light;
Everything is filled to the brimwith love undying, all inclusivethere in wooden brocades and
Life is a glasshalf full of something or otherYet empty of something elseAnd no one can quite agree on whichOr remember that reallyIt’s all the sameBecause life is a glass half empty of time
Life is a dayOf a thousand hoursA million secondsA millennia's worthOf cool breezes and breathsThat escape past our lipsIn smiles and sighs and laughsDrawn unsuspecting from our souls
The dream to be more is a road unsure
Desperate for change, it starts in me
Dust off those words, those thoughts that torture
The Light reaches out to set me free
Take the stand and make it pure
Many of us have doubt when we see that God is taking too long to answer, many of us do not seek the kingdom first and wonder why all the other good things aren't coming we tend to lean on our own understanding which means not Trusting in the Lord
These cold hands are stuggling
Can't get warm if anything
I try and try again
Only to get colder than
The heart of this dead body walking
I can't resist the coughing
I sit motionlessly, watching the bright rays of light dim over the horizon. I can hear the soothing sound of the waves striking the rocks, and the wet footprints running across the sand.
"SHUT UP!" "Go back to where you came from you wetback!" I stood there as their words pounded against my ears. I watched the teacher rip the two boys apart, fists and faces smeared with blood.
The darkness and light struggles within,Can't imagine where to begin.Seeing through clouds of darkness and dispare,One wonders what to do from there.Bright eyes pierce the soft soul,
A man walks down a white road.
He sees a child fallen on the street corner.
He tries to assist, she's too afraid- of what?
He sees a man with a sign
- black with white letters-
"in need"- of what?
Numbness overtakes her devastation
Standing in a paradise so surreal
Unable to express her infatuation
Always told what to think and feel
Living with an endless imagination
Beautiful fluttering delightful browning
Bestows its colorful tricks
Their glorioua masquerade thrashing
My name is Katie.
i for sure ain't eighty.
I'm a "spider cutie"
with a big, Cuban booty.
But you can call me the "leading light"
because I am now a UCF knight!
-KLow
It's like the stars are the beautiful ones
So much light calles
Surrounded by so much darkness
But nothing keeps them
Nothing stops them
From shining
A scent to clear the mind,
A sound that can heal much,
Blessed are those who feel the rain
Without the sense of touch.
No matter how much I express myself
and people sympathize to understand,
there's still that part of me that's
never really known.
All alone.
It craves to have light shed upon it,
A woman of Black gold, gave birth to an olive child,
Strong and mighty was she to stand by a father who stood to just pretend.
Made sure her little peice of hope in this world was warm, fed, and fast asleep everynight
Life.
It's a journey.
Journey.
It's made worthwhile by love.
Love.
It began with a friendship.
Friendship.
It's a strong bond.
Bond.
Time together that you enjoy.
Enjoy.
When I am weary and tired of worrying,
I take a look at my phone and see what
new vine is spreading.
I distract myself from a heart
beating too fast
and a mind reading too quick
oh stop -
Its dark, its cold, theres no way out
every space of light seems to be occupied by its own form of witchcraft
I walk on this world with no stablilized path
the lukewarm presense of the present life
Give me your hand.
You feel that vibration in my chest?
That's called a heartbeat,
and as long as that machine
is pumping that red matter through my veins,
it goes through to my brain,
we love to
observe the
angels
the gods
the light
we love to
pick out our
beauties
especially in those
we adore.
this
is
why
love
fails.
Dark to light. light to dark.hence my soul becomes a spark.benevolence is as benevolence doesto light/extinguish the fire between all of us
(April 1, 2011)
Today I will conquer
Today I push the clouds west and stand under blue skies
The bloodred sunset will not be my demise
The darkness will not overcome me
I will glow golden in the nights thick black curtain
I struggled against my restraints
I was forced here,
into a cage
I wasn't meant to be locked away
I have things to do,
Places to see,
People to meet
Sailing in the waters of which You wept,
You sees a Light in the distant of the cove,
a Light that Reality would refer to as
a dead end.
The Light fades,
then flares,
fades,
You sit behind me in the midnight sun
Urging me forward toward the edge
Always there my dark twin
You are the sin to my light
It takes everthing to fight the pull
Oh how sweet it would be
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.
With grace and power she stands there
Light soothing hands with a maternal touch
Gentle eyes that cut through glass and fair hair that falls upon her shoulders
Dependable, she is everyone's crutch
Little Candle burning bright,
dancing on beeswax and lumber.
May it light flicker so after I wake from my slumber.
Her little blaze is gentle, warming me with ease.
As I stand here, at Ground ZeroI reflect on what happened all those years agoSo many bitter memories on my mindFrom the day I escaped with just my lifeI should be a dead man, I shouldn't be alive
I sat in a dark cold room
Surrounded by my friends.
My feet shivered on the cold stone floor,
And fear filled the air.
I wanted to know why
The cave fish swim
Round and round
Going nowhere
Blind in the dark
Most have no eyes
But one fish sees
Sees the blackness
Feels the hopelessness
The fish with eyes
You whisper nonsense in my ear
so soft, so gentle
I listen closely to the cadence of your voice
lulling me to contentment.
You laugh.
My heart soars.
It vibrates through my flesh.
I arrived out of the dark night
Runnin', runnin'
Runnin' for my life,
I saw left
I saw right
I forgot what was right
Then I decided to go left
Going left was going deaf
Momma always used to say, “God laughs at the plans you make.”
But that was just a chance I had to be willing to take.
Empathetic, kind-hearted, containing the true values of life
The darkness doesn't always mean evil,
Just like the light does not always mean good.
Thinking for yourself isn't always a bad thing.
Right and wrong is an opinion.
Decisions blind.
Outcome unpredictable.
I once met love at the front door!
And, when I glaced it's direction
Love, beautifully, smiled back at me.
That was love. My first sight!
I became instantly drawn to love.
Happiness doesnt always fall upon you,
you have to choose it and then persue it.
7 years ago, my world darkened,
my eyes were opened to how bad people really were,
When someone asks
"Are you gay?"
When someone says
"You look lik a guy."
When someone knows the truth
they know me by no lies
they just dont know it all
the real alswers to their questions
Come, don’t be afraid.
Travel into the Distance
on the path that curves into Nothing
and bends into eternity.
Be with me
As I walk into the core of the silence
Wait Blue Beloved, I want to tell you, let’s snuggle forever, and stay with me in bed sweetheartTimes will seem too hard to bear and I will feel like life is giving up on me
I search for you.
Stumbling, crawling, in the unforgiving dark,
With no map, no light to guide me home,
I am simply a fool refusing to admit she’s alone,
Eventually I stop and just sit,
When will the darkness end?
Will morning ever come?
Will I always have to pretend?
Or will the mask be broken by some?
The smile on my face,
Is almost never real,
I put it there to hide,
when the Sun is alive
so am I
the unimaginable dream is mine
fog will remain in my path
but fire in my eyes, boldly.
there is a dawn that rises
unshakeable and endless
like the core of soul
I'm swimming in a sea of saddness,
running out of breath.
Although it seems I've spotted shore,
I'm always wrong: it's never near.
I wish I'd sink or be attacked,
at least then I'd feel something.
Men or Women
Have the power to kill.
Though we blame objects
Like guns, knifes, swords, etc.
Why are we blaming these objects
When we should be the one to blame
The people that hold the gun,
December ashes cold and gasping lay,
upon the earth- the Millions gray.
Amidst the frozen earth of Ash, the torches flame--
the Light holding back these Bleak days.
they burn-
I can see, but I am blind.
I can hear, though I am deaf.
I can speak, yet I am mute.
I find myself wandering, like a spirit,
Walking the same path over.
I cannot tell if a dream has taken me
Go outside! look at the bright world out there.
Feel the chill on your face, the cold wind in your hair.
Stand out in the open, study the sky's blue
a winter sun on my face, and I am with you.
What is freedom? Is it the light I see in this dark place? Is it just a word, or do I give the meaning to it? Is it the feeling of floating freely in poisonous water?
Our World... Rapacity!
Where Men usurp the youth.
Men who manifest greed, lust, power
Illimiuniting Freud's Id through actions
Alas! The youth replicate their Teachers.
Cloned as the Men
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,
Ever feel like your trapped
In a bottomless hole so deep
but yet comfortable to your new surrounding
familiar with the dark walls
and the ordinary smell
that become your only companions
Today
We Fly.
Today
We Cry.
Today
We Sigh.
Today
We Lie.
Today
We Deny.
Today...
We Die.
(Written in Trochaic Monometer)
She steps inside
a world unkown.
The place is dark
and stars don't glow.
She starts to cry--
she wonders why--
she thinks she cannot
be fulfilled
with just her dreams.
Light and Dark walked together one cold winter's night
under the shining face of the moon, full and bright.
On this night they could walk arm in arm
As old comrades might, forgetting their differences.
It’s the last time you’ll see him.
He’s pale with closed eyes.
He used to make you happy,
But now all you do is cry.
You cry over what was,
And what won’t ever be.
You cry because you realize
With you? The monsters don't seem so scary.
And life? Not so tough.
You are the sunshine to my darkness.
You keep me safe beside you.
Across the window pane
Drops falling fast
Whispering silent secrets
Casting shadows of the past
Some may see sadness
And cry their own tears
Cascade down crimson cheeks
When I close my eyes all I can see is your face wanting to get me.
That's why I write
When I go to lay in bed at night all I can feel is your hands on me.
That's why I write
I am like the dark.
A vast, intricate enigma.
Everybody can see that I’m there.
Some people choose to embrace me. I do not seek, but lie in wait.
Few people can understand some of me, some of what I hold.
I use to sit alone in my dark room surrounded by clouds of dark thoughts
My life was so cold back then and I kept thinking I couldn't last too much further on
See a hand reaching out to save me and draw me to the light ,
I cry as it hold me tight,Its say come near for I care ,please do not fear ,My love for I am here,
Bound by silence, my mind a cell.
Blinded, deafened- can't hear the bell.
The bell that sounds freedom to speak
My blinded eyes struggle to peak
Into the land of harmony-
A place where darkness cannot be.
Hands lock,
fingers curl.
Eyes twitch.
Just a few of the many things
we do together.
When walking on the beach,
seagulls high above us.
People waving hello as we get higher,
Silent, bright-eyed, constantly watchingThe holes in darkness for a time stay lastingBut when time dies down all matter changesThe gaps are sewn, it rearranges
Writing lights the path of ever darkness
A darkness that consumes all emotions
Feeling has ceased, sight has ceased, taste has ceased
Senses taken over by the evil
A beast that knows absolute no loving
-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
Patient and silent, I will wait
Shrouds of shinister figures, beckoning
Cloaked in darkness, I will wait
Into the depths of the forboding abyss
Neither friend nor foe, I will wait
When I look at my life as an outsider would, I see that it looks rather boring.
Dull.
Insignificant.
The fact of the matter is, I am not a genius
An athlete
A prodigy
Miles away apart from grace,
I need your love to guide me through; where no fear is ever known.
Though seclude, I feel right at home.
Late at night, like my overseer I feel you watching my every move.
The kindness in the smile of a little girl.
Fearless and free...the world not yet clawing away her freedom to love,
sees through eyes as clear as the sea with an embrace as warm as the sun.
Determent lurks at every corner;
Not visible, not heard--but sensed.
Every pathway blocked;
Every escape route tried.
Sinister silence engulfs the empty room,
But one frantic heart beats.
Why I write? I write because you told me to
Because you encountered history and literature but never met a pen or page
The roads are dark, lost in direction.
No way to turn, my path is lost--
I can’t see, where is the Light?
Turn right, turn left, I do not know?
Wherever I go, I cannot see.
My heart pounds, it’s so dark!
Nothing last forever,
The oceans will dry,
Leaves and flowers wither,
Monuments fade, and men do too.
What is life will not stay,
What is death grants only reprieves,
On the lofty, grassy hill I stand
Facing toward the eastern dawning light
Slowly rising, lighting the damp land
Silence broken by the fowl of no flight
When born God gave children a precious gift, <br> Through open eyes a new world floods within. <br> When sunrise is near our light starts to lift, <br> But darkness is my eyes, my own vile sin.
Why did you have to love me?
I can promise you that it’s nothing against you. But, I turn away because I keep love close, maybe too close, and I think that I will only remember and love you.
Darkness
It creeps around me
It surrounds me
Everything is dark
Hurt and pain engulf me
They rearrange my story
There is no hope
I open my eyes to find
a glimpse of something.
Writing is like carving.Carving out pieces.
Pieces ofThe heart of Jesus.
Love in the face ofpain-filled hatred,hurt breeding hurt in the heart.
I felt different as if somehow I seemed to glisten. The air was cold but I was warm. I was a light in the darkness. My eyes were closed, but i refused to open them. I was alone but I didn't feel alone. Everything felt perfect.
Entitled: Najarri Samuel Whitehead
But that's all you read.
Skipped past the prologue, and examined the pictures.
So in reality you only saw the happiness, the joy.
Never walking the heartache and pain.
My biggest fear will never visit me
Never will I allow myself to fall in
To cave in, to wither, to fall.
For I will stand as strong as a weeping willow.
In the darkness he lurks, always behind me.
mind is on hold
heart is in fast-forward
words were once all I needed to hear
now I need a proclamation
a declaration from you to me
make me your everything
desire at will
your power, your love
I once was lost,
I felt alone in this world and empty,
I felt like life was not worth the cost,
My insides were hollow,
And my heart feeling hefty,
Why to live?
What do I have to give?
The Sky
Insisting to reflect what is inside of me
Darkened it's clouds to night
Pouring out my grief;
The trees bowed and trembled beneith it's power;
I turned my face up to accept it's companionship
There is a dark place where nightmares slitherA place where sickness has no cureA place where the depths of hell shall riseA place where flames consume every ocean and river
Where in these dark caverns I lie alone,
Hidden without the wakefulness pure bright
In the shadows, I silently atone,
Awaiting the purge of the searing light;
But doubtly I conceal thyself of night
Wisps of air pranced through the blades of grass under the creek
And danced atop the dorsal fins of the creatures of the deep
And found under the surface of the water
The cloudy thoughts that fill my mind
My secret truths most cannot find
To the close few I give my time
I speak my lies as if I’m fine
An outlet for what I contain
The truths I know must explain
See the masked skeletons of undead slaves march
varnished spirits welded together by the sins of their past
through the smog they trudge
You may not know who I am
But I know who you are.
I see you most of the time.
I play your words in my ear
Over and over till I get sick of it.
You are always on my mind,
At this moment, I am inventing the dinosaur; creating toast; conceiving an end to a circle. Against reason, I am endeavoring to produce something beautiful from the dregs of humanity.
I live my life so I can strive
to make a difference with an inference of the pursuit of happiness
in the american dream which gleams
brightly in the distance.
you're almost there you can almost taste it
Children of Light, must fight the night.
To protect the innocent’s dreams.
Gird on your sword of sharpened light,
Children of Light, must fight the night.
Strap on your polished armor bright,
Here me here me ole trouble one
Thrill and passion is what you desire,
And your wants unquenchable as fire.
Allow me to give you what you seek
For it is from your heart I do speak.
Night.
A time filled with darkness.
Darkness. Close your eyes
and you will know. But,
true darkness surrounds you,
you can feel its prescence,
I walked inside the shadows
Hiding my face and who I was
I had no voice
I could not speak
Choking on the breaths I could not breathe
I wandered quickly
Anxiously
I fell deeper into the dark
In that forest deep and green
They came across a maiden
Unlike anything they'd ever seen
With gold and jewels was laden
With words of honey she led them
Deep into the wood
You bring us warmth and make things bright
You even let us see whats in the night
Because of you there is no dark
Infact without you a person couldn't even write this ode a remark!
Green light, yellow light,
RED LIGHT.
Green light - proceed,
Yellow light - caution,
Red light - STOP.
Stop - green light,
Caution - yellow light,
Proceed - red light,
A light shining bright
Surrounded by shades of night,
A candle battles against the wind,
Flickering, but never out and warm within
Poetry is the voice of the silent,
I got caught in a thunderstorm
and thought about the way our bodies move
through the sky and fall to the earth just like that.
Into the den of the wicked blackbird
and past my less fortunate peers,
I arrived in an orchard humming with growth
and the beauty I no longer possessed.
Terror and fright consume me:
Light leaves and dark trails behind me.
I am forever alone with no one near or close,
In this secluded island, I stand morose.
The sea:
a light flickers,
flits, sees my face, turns back.
I call, reach, shield from the rain on
the waves that, crashing, cover the figment,
which drowns, choking, a bubbly laugh
Amongst the darkness of the world,
Poverty and the poor,
Children of very young mothers,
Abandoned children of fathers,
Deaths of loved ones that come and go,
Even abortion agreed upon by scared young girls,
I'm living in a world so bleak and cold
No warning of hurt
Protect yourself because nobody else will
Hold on tight
It's going on to be a long fight
Filled with mysteries
Yes, that we are
I'm living in a world so bleak and cold
No warning of hurt
Protect yourself because nobody else will
Hold on tight
It's going on to be a long fight
Filled with mysteries
Yes, that we are
No matter how hard I try it seems like I keep getting farther and farther away
Maybe this connection is not part of the design that leads to our fate
We were moving along schedule smoothly going up step by step
(I have not seen you nor have I known;
But I love you more than riches or gold.
I have not realized through images of art,
how close you really are to my heart.
You are my light, you make me smile;
(I have not seen you nor have I known;
Bu I love you more than riches or gold.
I have not realized through images of art,
how close you really are to my heart.
You are my light, you make me smile;
Everything is so screwed up...
but, my mind's made up.
You're not real.
I'm callin' demons a disease but I know one when I see one.
I had one. It filled me.
I possessed one. It killed me.
They scatter stars
And take all light from laughter.
Across the skies they turn
summer's soft blues
Into stormy grays.
They delight in
All that is tainted with sin.
She is light.
Filled with wonder and beauty - She's the goddess of light.
The drum of your laugh;
The tinkle of her sigh;
A Caress from you instills in her Flight.
Though you see,
To find is another matter.
Wanting hearts not filled overnight.
The journey continues,
Hope still abounds in us.
A search has demanded answers,
They will be owned, Oh Perseverer.
You don't know what to do
But that's okay because nobody knows
Just let the sun shine on your skin
And let the clouds carry you there
Let it all in
And don't block anything out
When I was young, I saw the world
Through glasses lined with
sparkling pearls.
Shaded blush and tinted rose,
Where everything was good as
gold.
But later when it faded light,
At the corner it stands.
Resolute.
An unmoving, unfailing symbol of strength.
It's seen much.
It has seen a lost child wandering,
the shadows of dangerous men,
the rush of runaway lovers.
I gleam with a yellow satisfaction,
The night couldn't be more clear.
My thunderous telescope absorbs fiery light,
And brings the booming images near.
Loveless light of the moon
Rises only at night
Hiding
Partially or Fully
Stays up for only the nocturnal
Full moon
Completely exposed
Not doing so often
Goes back to a comfortable shield
I'll call you in the morning, so you know that I'm alive.
For I might die while I'm asleep, when darkness covers my eyes.
For when you are not with me, I'm drowning in the sea.
I search endlessly into the dark abyss that is my heart.
Yearning for that one light, but as I run, grasping for it, the light begins to fade.
As I scream, crying out for it to stay... It vanishes.
All I see is blackness.
You can live many years on this earth so divine,
And not know the wonders that He can provide.
But then something changes,
Call it fate, if you will.
You’re lost in the cold,
The dark will not cease.
My feelings still strong, but another's long gone.
Forget I must of a time once known, happy I was, but I must move on.
On a road of pain and remorse I go, paths unclear but I still move on.
My love, she looks so marvelous
In the light of this gentle candle
The flames, they dance across her cheeks
And along the lips of my dearest angel.
Her delicate hands lie softly
And glow in the flickering flame
It hurts, every whisper
Each wayward glance, so close
Every moment heard and felt
Twisting the shard with each tremor, vibration
Icy crystalline glass wedged to deep to pull
Oh beating drum in my body and ears
Distant and forgotten, hiding in the open air,
Present everywhere.
Revealed only for a moment,
like dust caught in a stream of sunlight.
Pain
The powerful heat is overwhelming.
Painful
Even the smallest spark of light
Can quickly become a danger
I’m in the dark
Loneliness trickling over me like dripping pipes
Hope has ran away
So far away that I cannot breath
When I reach out
I expect to find nothing but the damp air
But instead I feel a hand
We're so tired of this world and all its' evil,
Tired of the horrible and fake people
Tired of the murder, the lies, and all the pain,
Tired of the bullying, the cheating, the earthly ways
(poems go here) This World... This place
is so cold and hard
It feels like there are boulders on my chest
They crush my body
My feelings fall beneath the clouds,
I see the sun shining through.
I pray I see the light come anew.
I whisper softly to the wind,
help be feel whole again,
this sickness came too fast
It starts in a house that's been hallowed alone
The tension remains but the spirits forlorn.
It seems empty enough but just step inside
there's somebody, something that continues to hide.
Not liking the first I start a new page
Realizing that life only sucks when
You are no longer playing center stage
I think maybe we should try this again
Awake, alive, running to have a chase;
Dim forest peels back branches binding light
Allowing shadows lurch across my face
As the feet reach to more ground for my flight
Children raised to rape and plunder
Fallen from grace, and it's no wonder
We've brought about a mighty thunder
Created a beast to take us under
This wood covers me with deceiving mist,
"Clarity", it yells, "Can not possibly exist!"
Struggling, I wander, search, and fight
Desperately looking for a ray of Light.
Dark and suffocating, this wood surrounds me
Last year I drowned in the sea of darkness and lament
So many mistakes I made that weren’t my intent
The time I spent on that path made me blind
To my friends and family that I left behind
It starts off slow, a tugging at the heart.
A sort of deep ache welling up within the subconscious
Something that cannot be expressed in words
You see them talking, laughing, but not
like they care if you see
The world is full of lies, greed, & lust;
The simplest definition of the most of us, as compilation;
We, not understanding how to be united as a people, have adopted racism;
The full moon, the dark sky.
It never leaves my mind.
It guides me all the way, through the twists and turns.
You burn a mild orange now and again like that of the autumn color leaves.
They say we have the right to be civil
The right to be right
But not the right to be white
The right to be different
The right to be cool
But not the right to rule
My God is white and so is my soul
Are you high?
Don't lie.
No use.
Misuse?
Misunderstood.
Miss Independent
Thought she could.
All Alone
Hold the phone.
Inspire me beloved poetry,
surrounded in nothingness,
alone and lonely,
no place to call home but hell,
but if hell is my realm then what next may come,
asked I the suicidal bastard son,
Shattered. Shattered like the chandelier
Now crumbled on our floor.
What once lit our worlds
Now disintegrates into the dust of time.
Shattered. Shattered like the chandelier
Now crumbled on our floor.
What once lit our worlds
Now disintegrates into the dust of time.
You thought you could escape.
You will suffer as I have suffered.
I am not what I was, I am what I will be.
You will never respond.
Shapes and shadows in the night,
When the darkness is chased away by light.
A silhouette of two lovers walking down the street.
Lit by the guiding lamps, that illuminate there way.
Can you bring light to the dark?
The darkness creeps in holding fear and regret,
Fear can grab you and take you away from you natural life.
Regret will make you seem as if you’re worthless and have no meaning.
My heart shattered into a million pieces
and the wind blew the remnants across the sky,
So that they may shine like bright stars
among the Heavens at night,
