Life

Life

Lost ground and lost way

Footing insecure

Broken and defeated

We must brace ourselves

To rise again

For no matter how often we fall

We must rise to the challenge

To the day

To face our enemies

Because that is the meaning of life

The rise and fall

The give and take

Without which

We cannot live

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Confession

If I start speaking Latin

Don’t think that I’m possessed

I’m only conversing in tongues

Confessing how much I’m blessed

Angels might echo my actions

But I’d hardly count myself one

I’m not really suited for harping

I’d like to have a little more fun

But saints and sinners are people

They all had ordinary lives once

Till a catalyst hastened a spark

Making giants out of runts

My pedestal stands at the ready

I’ll have so far to climb

You put me so far above you

Gives me farther to fall, I find

You’ve no notion of being so blessed

Blessings have no meaning of self

It’s not that you can’t ever love me

It’s the value, the cost, the price

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I used to like the rain...

I used to like the rain

Its gentle pattern

The nice cozy feeling

Even the thunder and the lightning

Splitting the sky and sending shivers

Then a rainbow, a promise to all

But the promise is just words

As my body screams

Some mumbo jumbo about pressure and moisture

Sure as the rainfall

Has a different meaning now

A thousand phrases

Have added colors

Unfortunately they all seem to be

Black and blue

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Broken Barriers

Sometimes creating a barrier

Is the only way to remove it

The lack of ability to respond

Creates the ability to truly give in

To the deeper emotions

To the inner animal

To the wonton

Waiting to explode

Release from prison

Helps in knowing

What lies beneath

A surface barely scratched

A deeper meaning

Waiting to be explored

Is all that’s left

Poems ***

For many years I hid my heart

And sheltered it from ache

If only I had waited more

I would still have one to break

You dropped in unexpectedly

Like a whirlwind in a storm

My life began to open up

A meaning began to form

Possibilities seemed endless

The world began to flame

Suddenly reality

And no one else to blame

Can a tree grow in a desert?

Or man survive without clothing in the cold?

We need nourishment to feed us

We need love to help us grow

Without the right environment

It is no good to plant a tree

Without the right equipment

We are as good as dead

But give us the proper stuff

And humans thrive on challenge

We fight to live

We grasps at straws

We live

We are