There was a time
Time was when
A time never
Seen again

Once upon a time
Not so long ago
The sun warmed the heart
The moon romanced the sky above
How grand
Love

Time flows
Caries lives along
Separates the truth
Buried in youth

Time heals
But never reveals
The struggle and pain
It secretly conceals

Looking back at the heart
To ponder the old
Time remains silent
Its story yet to unfold

But
Life was easy then
Time will reveal
Everything was okay
Back in the day

I speak as I write
My thoughts to myself
I’ll convey to you
If that’s alright

I speak in words
No one hears
Except maybe you
Who recognize my tears

I speak in rhyme
That’s what I do
I compose each line
Just for you

I speak a language
Only you know
For you the reader
To translate so

I speak in themes
That only you understand
You follow my thoughts
You know where I stand

I speak what I see
I write this way
Black and white
Few shades of gray

I speak no pattern
You follow my reasoning
Wherever it leads
Wherever it goes

You are my audience
I need no one else
I speak only to you
So you can follow
For you know that my words
Are sometimes hard to swallow
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“Better to write for yourself and have no public
Then to write for the public and have no self”

Cyril Connolly (1933)

Does it matter…?
How much money you make
How many friends you have
How many possessions you own
How successful you are
If you obtained fame
If you win the game
How many matters really matter

You labor each day
For things you think truly matter
In your struggles and strife
Have you ever considered
What’s the real point of your life?

They’ve asked me to forgive you
Do what you think is right
Rise above the norm they say
They want me to show compassion
To their satisfaction

Yet, you do not confess
You show no emotion
You express no words
You remain silent
You want my forgiveness
Yet, you prefer to stand and choose to
Argue in silence

But I know that
Forgiveness is the gateway to freedom
It frees you from the bitterness and indignation
That you’ve stored in your heart
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“To err is human;
To forgive divine.”
Alexander Pope
(1688-1744)

He reaps what he does not sow
He takes what he does not need
He exchanges lies for truth
He never satisfies his greed

On a downward spiral
A one-way direction
Burning his conscience
Knowing all the while
He’ll never change his style

Chasing after rainbow colored bubbles
Until they burst
Leaving him no better than worse
Blames everyone but himself
For somewhere in his life
He flunked the test
It was never supposed to be
Bad better best
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“And yet to every bad
There is worse”

Thomas Hardy

Whom do you see when there’s no one to see?
What do you say when there’s nothing to say?
You meditate on thoughts that you don’t have
And listen to the silence that resonates

You linger and wait for an answer to a question you never asked
While you bask in the solitude that continues to ruminate
You attempt to step out of your stare
But find it hard to bare

You wonder where your dreams have gone
Your ambitions and desires number but a few
Hope against hope you find yourself lost in you
But that’s what loneliness can do
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“You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you”

Dr.Phil Mc Graw