How do you let go?
How do you remember to forget?
How do you reminisce and not know?
How do you restrain your feelings?
How do you inhibit your emotions?
How do you suppress what’s appealing?
How do you curb your devotion?
How do you continue to hold it all together?
How do you persist in your mime?
How do you endure when things don’t get better?
“How do you hold on to her and let her go at the same time?”
The most important decisions in life
Are sometimes the hardest to make
You choose
You loose
You make
You break
But that’s the chance you take
Love’s decisions last for only a day
But the hurt never goes away
You sleep on it
You dine with it
You challenge it
You romance it
But you never get over it
What is there to say?
Sometimes what’s important
Never gets said
Sometimes the things that matter
Are difficult to express
You bind them
You struggle over them
You languish over them
You lament over them
Soon only to find them
Slipping away
With love there’s no exception
Pursue
Dismiss rejection
Words never spoken are words never heard
Let loose the feelings
Take a step above
For the heart can’t survive
A one-sided love
The ear touches the heart
The heart inspires the mind
Often you find
The ear can’t define
The eye becomes blind
Truth like water
Cascades gently down
Flows like a river
Awakening the ground
The ear can’t hear
What the truth has said
There’s no lull to the truth
The ear is dull?
The ear is dead?
Flavors of dull that infect the ear
Indifference
Detachment
Unconcerned
Incoherent
Muffles what you hear
The drip drip drip of the truth
The drop drop drop of the clog
The beat beat beat of the heart
The mute mute mute of the mind
Truth like water flows
To all it has chose
Its message is clear
Open your ear
If you choose to hear
For hard truth sets you free from
Ignorance and deception
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“Better to get hurt by the truth
Than comforted with a lie”
Khaled Hosseini
How many takes
To correct a mistake
How many tries
To dry your eyes
How many times
To make a poem rhyme
How many forgets
To dispel regrets
How many lessons learned
To begin to discern
How many lies
Before you open your eyes
Where the spirit leads
The body follows
The choices that are made
Are sometimes hard to swallow
When the spirit grieves
The body becomes hollow
Some may influence
The way you are
But to contemplate
May cause you to
Duplicate
To play the
counterpart
To steal an
Identity
To photocopy an
Image
Or to compare yourself
To yourself
And examine your own
Behavior
Who are you?
Don’t you know that
It’s who or what you turn to
That defines who you are
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“Don’t you realize that
Whatever you choose to obey
Becomes your master?”
Rms(6:16)
Why do you pursue what’s not right
For you?
Why is your heart defiant?
You substitute weak for meek
You remain silent
You let others speak
Why can’t you stand tall?
Why do you fall?
Under the spell
Of
smells
And
Bells
Under the trance
of
whistles
And
Chants
Why do you chase after the incense?
Why do you allow your senses to numb?
Why do you allow someone else’s conscience
To judge your freedom?
As sweet fruit is to the tongue
Is the kiss on the lips
As perfume arouses the nose
Is the fragrance of the rose
As gentle to the ear
Is the knocking heart you hear
As the thrill of the touch
Is the embrace so much
As love enters the eye
Is the birth of a sigh
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A Drinking Song
“Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye:
That’s all we know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh”
W.B. Yeats
On the scale of life
Where one learns to weigh
The good with the bad
One would soon discover
That weighing one with the other
Is not capable of being had
For
In life’s living tapestry
Interwoven with twisted black and white strands
Of
Unforeseen moments
Complicated relationships
Unavoidable tragedies
Where
Good is good
Bad is good
And all things are as they should
For all things that happen
Happen for the good…(Rm8:28)
No heart ever survived
A broken arrow
No heart ever revived
A fallen sparrow
You touched my soul
You took control
I let you in
You got under my skin
Hold me again
Like you remember when
No need to explain
Just cover my pain
It’s alright
To stay the night
There’s nothing left to say
Don’t wake me in the morning
Just touch me
And walk away♥
A city boy
With city ways
Blue collar parents
With not much to say
Learning the lessons of life
On the street
Where good and evil
Always meet
His friends where his whole world
School never mattered
The bonds they had
Could not be shattered
Fell in love
And to this day
No other love
Has ever come his way
Unlike Frost
He took the road most traveled
Swallowed up
He watched his life unravel
Chose a career
He didn’t plan
Honors and accolades
A successful man
Alone in himself
But never alone
Surrounded by family
He called his own
Lost his manhood
One day in March
But life over death
Was the only way
A Christian man
Never did compromise
You would believe
If you look into his eyes
A compassionate man
But you would never know it
Sensitive and caring
He’d seldom showed it
Waiting the appointed time
For his soul to be awaken
To return home
His earthly life taken
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“Lord make me know my end
and what is the extent of my days;
Let me know how transient I am.”
Psalm 39-4
“Behold You have made my days as handbreadths,
and my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Surely
every man at his best is a mere breath.Surely
every man walks about like a phantom; Surely
They make an uproar for nothing; Surely
He amasses riches and does not know who will
gather them.”
Psalm 39:5-6