Category: hope
Between differences
Lost in these unnuanced shadows
Of what’s coming and what’s gone
We all live every day to its death
And the older I seem to be getting
The more I long for my yesterday’s
A child at play- naively laughing
My first kiss from someone I love
Discovering I could rise above- pain
When I was left for someone else
But I’m just not that young anymore
Life just continues to change anyways
And in ways- I never could’ve expected
I wasn’t serious enough back then
I’ve forgotten how…to be childishly now
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Clairity
I walked away from a narrative of lies
I had nothing to disprove- to anyone
Bloodletting is meant to demoralize
Indiscretions are measured in degrees
If sin comparison for everyone is equal
I’ve got further from being recognized
Because I refuse to deny my lived life
If I must, I’ll live alone inside my truths
And one-way conversations with old ghost
Empathy is an island they leave unfound
I breathe in its fresh air every single day
My scars will forever be part of me now
And I still bleed inside my heart’s dreams
Behind the fogginess of my true… reality
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Poet of the Light © 2023
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Confirmation
My heart keeps rinsing grief away
But apparently, it’s become a stain
Permanently etched upon my soul
Liken molecular changes from loss
Making the expressions, unreadable
And my cost seems to still be tolling
It is sometimes our burden with love
Relying on a hearts bleeding courage
Giving everything of its own essence
To still love beyond the pale of death
Just as unflinchingly as one does in life
There’re no bounds restraining love itself
All that’s required is a passion’s existence
And what’s love without… eternal fire?
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Battle tempered
Like a shadow of who I once was
I’ll walk along my empty shores
In the twilight hours of times before
Gathering empty shells of dreams
Left in the wake of ugly betrayals
That nearly drowned me repeatedly
I’ve stepped past the ghost of my hurt
That plagued me for too many years
Through my heart still feel the scars
That still hungers for- a love unfound
Where I can practice all, I’ve learned
To feel the warmth of love in my arms
While I’m clutched in her guiding hands
Teaching me to trust love… once again
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Poet of the Light © 2022
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Disintegrated
My mind does try to understand
All things my emotions just can’t
Like why my heart wants to forgive
But still feels too broken down yet
It favors I surrender and let you go
With all this pain you’ve called love
My soul believes were heading for
A crash much worse than all this
Heartaches aren’t worth the trouble
Let’s stop pretending their normal
I’m so far from everything I’ve wanted
And sometimes I may feel I deserve it
Broken hearts cling to a glimmer of hope
One day someone will love us…anyway
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Poet of the Light © 2022
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Believers
Sometimes we have to just sit in the quietude
Attentively listening to no one but ourselves
Our dreams, our woes, uttered prayers aloud
Untangling why we always feel that blueness
Paying close attention to what is not said too
Like those secrets, we keep locked in our head
Behind a hidden door of our most inner fears
Where we store the scars of rejection and love
Where we keep window and shutters nailed shut
Those time-etched shattered pieces our ourselves
We hold hope to revive back to some kind of life
Knowing full well, in our hearts it’s not possible
Not without a miracle that only love can bestow
The kind of divine miracles we’re born… to dream
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Poet of the Light © 2022
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Daydreamers
Life proves it’s ever-changing; is a truth
But many opt to “go with the flow”
Find a place within the tidbits offered
However, I cannot choose to do that
For me, it seems to be ceding of my dreams
To the degree, that I’ve lowered expectations
Not only of my value but in those possibilities
Almost as if I’ve found myself unworthy
Of dreams, I truly still desire to achieve
Albeit I may be well off the crucial track
Possibility remains alive as much as I do
I concede my odds of failure do grow higher
Just as my supporters dwindle in contrast
Nonetheless, I remain a faithful… believer
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Poet of the Light © 2022
Footprints
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Somewhere, out there
Beyond all this preverbal divide
I know your divine essence
Will be there, waiting for mine
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However, changing currents here
Are regrettably cold and shadowed now
Blind, conventual, and antiquated
Where loneliness feels more palatable
And fleeting emptiness is more tempting
Yet, I remain entrenched as myself
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For some of us
To love from one’s exposed soul
Is no option but our truest nature
And as in nature, obtuse cruelty exist
Seeking to stifle and eradicate that love
Burning with a dark jealous cynicism
That most often will scar us terribly
Making our soul’s windows blur cloudy
As our hearts suffer worse- endlessly
Remaining true to our soulful mission
Until the end of… our human existence
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Poet of the Light © 2022
Capacity
My heart and soul are intertwined
Both have known being orphaned
Like all disposable objects in life
Where I learned I always had myself
As one or the other carried me forth
Amongst all my silent darker times
Where even my echoes had gotten lost
And never returned me any advisement
I sat umbrellaed beneath my sorrows
As birds do leaves in the rainy seasons
I’ve trembled inside my own shivering
The way thunder does hidden lightning
They’re things that can’t be separated
Like my eternal scarred love…for you
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Poet of the Light © 2022
Whispers of a poet's heart 