Category: Poetry

Light

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For a split moment, it was there, I tell you.

I saw the fresh, warm, and glowing light:

it sparked in the middle of a grey haze of confusion.

The confusion – it’s hard to put a finger on it –

it’s like today is like yesterday, and yesterday like ten years ago.

it’s like the dream is waking hours and waking hours like a dream.

But when you see the spark, your skin feels just right –

it’s as if time no longer binds you to where you are now –

as if you have been where you are supposed to be all this time.

let’s play, dance, run, chat, laugh, walk, sing, hum, smile.

let’s embrace, rejoice, pray, remember, tribute, welcome.

let’s listen, see, feel, understand, meditate, contemplate.

9.3.2024

Forgive

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Son, forget this madness.

All this rage, bitterness, and brooding is getting you nowhere.

Hold on to the memories of love, grace, and gratitude.

Let go of hurt, disappointment, and loss.

Look at what remains and celebrate.

Release your pride, ego, and glory.

Find peace in humbleness.

Seek to create light in dark,

shelter to the lost,,

and warmth for the cold.

9.1.2024

Shell

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like a slow-moving mountain on a horizon

after a long-period of blurry trees through a train window,

I saw my former self in a shell I left behind,

one I longed to break through in my mind.

it tells a story:

a mind never fixates in one pebble

it flows like a river from the mountain

ever shape-shifting, from roaring rumble

to a serenly calm fjor of chieftain

so while my mind is clear now

let me imprint in a script

you may not know how

but you have been loved while you lived.

remember as long as you can

and give to others, as others have done to you.

8.23.2024

Back

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See:

I’ve been a fool long enough.

My eyes dazed upon the flame,

so bright, courageous, and warm in the dark,

I hungrily reached out, deadly too close, to the boundary.

Until, finally, I caught myself in spiegel.

Listen:

It’s not what we take that brings warmth to us.

It’s what rules we choose to abide by

that allows us to stand on our two feet under the glorious sun

and be at ease with ourselves

that keeps us warm.

Commit:

We will endure what comes before us.

Suffering will not, albeit close, last eternally.

Should we be alone all the way in the end,

we will find strength enough for a smile

for we will know we have done it the right way.

Believe.

8.16.2024