melissa-s
I am from a small town in Alabama. I use to keep a journal several years ago and quit writing altogether when I got too busy with my baby boy and just life in general. A good friend encouraged me and inspired me to write again and I had forgotten what a passion I had for it.
I waited so patiently for years
Could drown in all the sorrows and tears
Used to flush out my poor heart
But still I waited...
Like a wife that sends her husband off to war
because I knew you were fighting off demons
Things that I could not see
It's not like the darkness ever evaded me
You never returned from that war
I was left to fend off my darkness alone
Shouldering life tragedies on my own
But even then I waited...
Even though some days
There wasn't even any hope
And yet I still waited...
I waited though totally exhausted
I began to chafe at all the waiting;
Patiently,
I sent out my light once again
Like only a lighthouse does
To help you find your way back
Amongst all the turmoil and shadow
All these things I then came to know
Your love could be reawakened to grow
and where I had waited so patiently
You and that love did return to me
and my patience was finally set free
Apr 23, 2025
Apr 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM UTC
The stranger is no longer there
but now familiar brown eyes and soul to bare
He came back home a new man for me
So glad the stranger I no longer see
Now he doesn't want to take me down
but let's me be the queen I am and wear my crown
Now he brings light love and hope
and no longer uses alcohol to cope
No longer the liar I use to know
No longer the stranger with fear and woe
So glad the stranger is gone
now my husband is back with me at home
No longer is he a stranger to me
So glad the stranger I no longer see
Apr 3, 2025
Apr 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM UTC
Fighting off the Darkness
I have a lot of darkness in me
but I have goodness too
and I try to fight off
how much dark trickles through
When I feel the darkness
try to rear its ugly head
I submerge myself in water
to wash away all the dread
I can hear my heartbeat in the water
and it lets me know I am still alive
I try and block myself off
to what is slowly trying to thrive
I close my eyes to the darkened images
and close my mind off as well
I dare not speak of any horror
and retreat into my protective shell
I emerge from the water
when I start to feel repaired
then I shift my focus to other people
my thoughts are needed elsewhere
Mar 25, 2025
Mar 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM UTC
I hope to
rediscover the world
through your eyes,
unlock the mysteries
behind the mundane
again.
See new colors,
think new thoughts,
find the lost joy in music.
I hope to
show you, teach you,
love you, reach you,
in all our imperfect
human ways.
Read new words,
twirl words into lines,
find the perfect poem
for you.
Jan 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022 at 1:15 PM UTC
Grief has to many phases and passages to name
In life we can take one path or many pathways
There are people who lie and then there are liars
People who are kind or people who show kindness
People can be great or they are grateful
People who feel safe then others who need a savior
We only have ourselves to blame and be held
accountable for our mistakes
With knowledge and struggles comes strength
and
We are never truly alone...
❤
Jan 7, 2022
Jan 7, 2022 at 1:01 PM UTC
There is a stranger in my home
looks familiar but is not known
I wake up and he is all I see
Why is he in the bed with me
I guess he wants to take me down
to see my smiles turn into frowns
turn my light into dark
have me not use my giving heart
In the shadows he waits to pounce
Progressing uncertainty ounce per ounce
He is a liar this I know
Tell me the truth before I go
Who is this stranger that I see
Why is he still in my home with me
Nov 12, 2020
Nov 12, 2020 at 1:08 PM UTC
Don't litter
my pretty tree
with ugly
truths for leaves
thorns that cut
like swords
with no
protective sheaths
Seeds of a deceiver
try to take
root
to taste my
sweet and sticky
fruit
to grow into
choking vines
It's only purpose
is to bind
then confine
but my tree
is too strong
It has to be
I blow with the wind
that carries me
Down by the sea
Peaceful quiet
and fancy free
Jul 20, 2020
Jul 20, 2020 at 3:46 PM UTC
In Their Own Words:
“All I’ve ever learned from love is....”
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So come, my friends, be not afraid. We are so lightly here.
It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear. Tho’ all the maps of blood and flesh are posted on the door, there’s no one who has told us yet what Boogie Street is for. Leonard Cohen
All I've learned from love that it appears on its own timetable,
and, all I've learned from love is, it is the purpose. Harlon Rivers
“is crazy and this is infinite and ever so sobering wondrous possible"
Medusa
It is a paradox of two people - in debit to one another though each may never realise;
and neither one of whom would ever consider recalling the debt. Gideon
A headlong charge into a vast unknown that promises fufillment of every lacy, perfumed dream, but may instead deliver wrenching wounds that only another love can heal. Lori Jones McCaffery
every fantastic mistake I ever really made! Drunk in shallow bar light with a woman of my wicked dreams who laughed as loud as me at our shared ****** jokes we both got. We loved for awhile and then wandered and still loved forever as we found other dim bars with more wicked dreams. gray dot (unknown)
All I have learned from love is to give more than one receives unconditionally. K Balachandran
"love is the great equalizer: ignoring age, race, education, wealth, religion, disability, and sanity... simultaneously capable of lifting all to the highest highs and dragging all into the deepest depths. In love there is no pride or ego." forgotten
that just beyond is a hidden trail, where a magical river of the purest water flows free. Here and only here, my heart can be revived, and my mind is stilled by the silence I find. Love’s call is gentle. Joey
“that love is as love does.”
victoria
All I ever learned from love is the meaning of the word, "unconditional!”. SE Reimer
Sometimes we fall in love, and sometimes love falls on us.
Stephen E. Yocum
it is gentle rage, come like sun through clouds, to feed parched earth....one word to set life a tingle, the first smile of a golden
boy's day. The last caress before sleep, the letting go of a dying
friends hand and the gathering together of companions for food
and laughter, love comes in many guises, has many faces and is
lifeblood to the soul hiding within. betterdays
where the beginnings end and the ends begin. Elizabeth J.
The burial of fear and all we’ve ever known In hope for a new flourishment. Dante Rocio
that life flows in abundance of peace, harmony and balance when I
surrender to live in love. Cné
that love assuages hurt and heals the wounded...it rings with melody
and dances to the heavens. It’s the divine giving over of body and mind; it's mystic transcendence an overwhelming feeling of pure ecstasy. patty m
that love is a dunghill, and I'm a crow that stands on it and caws.
Thomas W Case
Acceptance. Acceptance of myself and of the ones I love.
Kelly Rose
It is easier to give love than to accept it. Walter W Hoelbling
was what I learned from her...Love is above, beyond what we all wish, we had to touch the sun, the moon, the stars; everything we have. Temporal Fugue
that it is unique; it makes the softest body, hard, and softens the hardest heart. poetontheroof
Our hearts tied but I don't know how. Anonymous
Love has the ability to surpass life. Even though you are gone I still can’t stop loving you. “Love leaves more behind than death ever takes away. “ -unknown. Love Storytelling
to never go searching for it. That's it, I guess. Aparna
has been gleamed through the sacrifice and service of a few extraordinary souls. For true love is borne of sacrifice, and
it compels us to serve. Without those elements, it cannot exist.
J Klein and Sons Pen Parish
it requires curiosity to truly uncover; it is an emotion
that makes us uniquely human. Angelique
that sometimes it hurts and sometimes it thrills, but
love that kills your pain is always worth the dying for. r
it is a gift from God, most precious and not to be abused or taken
for granted. South by Southwest
how to hurt. Andrew Crawford
is that, it comes like lightning...it jolts, it makes, or breaks a future;
it hangs around, no matter what, if it's meant to be...yours...
all i've learned from love made me a tree, with fruits
with a blend of sour and honeyed truths, it is heaven...
when bared, shared... reciprocated. Sally A Bayan
that it is hard and it hurts but we cannot live without it... there is no storybook endings. You take the good and bad and make it what you need. Melissa S.
The burial of fear and all we’ve ever known
In hope for a new flourishment. Dante Rocio
that I can’t, won’t, don’t want to ever live life without Love! ♥️ Feeling Love Sparks everyday forever and always ♥️ Loving Love Glass Slipper Girl
to accept it when it is given, to share it when it is felt, to cherish it because it is a gift and that whether it hurts or it heals, it is far better to have experienced it than to not have. BLT
that love is...forever studied; gravity, it is akin to the sense of gravity;
it can never be explained, felt, or experienced, but never grasped in ones hand. wordvango
that if you have it, you should give it. amanda
how to turn up my face and surrender to the rain.
Clementine Valerie Black
that God is love expressed by Jesus, and I'm my best when I imitate Christ. Christos Victor
the most over analyzed, overwrought word that remains after thousands of years, completely
inexplicable. onlylovepoetry
it's a strength and weakness, ecstasy and agony, a belief and fear (of losing), emotional contradictions yet so intrinsically precious to be worth living and dying for. Pradip Chattopadhyay
the emptiness of smothering empathy for all that lives, feels and needs. It's to bear eternal suffering... Traveler
red. Fog
to give, far outweighs the take. Mike Hauser
that it lifts open our minds' eyes, overturns our fears in this vast expanse of the unknown - it etherally reveals our connection
Melody
how deep is my ignorance. Joel M Frye
that love has nothing to do with *** It has everything to do with sick kids at 3am and holding back your friends hair when she pukes in the gutter crying over some ******* who just dumped her. It's selfless.
Acme
nothing compared to what I've learned from pain. v V v
the things I’ve never learned. M-E
that is the cancer and the cure; the detour and the straight line; proof of reincarnation and death everlasting; the intersection where extreme selflessness and selfishness meet, becoming indistinguishable; it’s shapeless, nearly invisible, and yet known to everyone; a verb, a noun, a conjunction between and a preposition to a beginning and a dead end.
Nat Lipstadt
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thanks to all the participants, so far...(see the note below)
Jul 20, 2020
Jul 20, 2020 at 2:51 PM UTC