Keep on
Fellow poets!
Keep on
Shouting your pain
Putting a voice to your trauma
Releasing that unspoken part of you
That is crying to be heard
Crying to released
Out into the void
For there is power in sharing your truth
To show the way
And give permission
For others to release theirs too

“When you walk through a storm
Keep your chin up high
And don’t be afraid of the dark.

At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet, silver song of a lark.

Walk on through the wind,
Walk on through the rain,
Though your dreams be tossed and blown.

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart,
And you’ll never walk alone!
You’ll never walk alone.”

“Try and be patient,
Have plenty of hobbies,
Keep your friends,
We do need them
Even if we don’t always think the same as them,
Be happy -
Even if you have to work at it”

“When you’re lonely, I wish you love.
When you’re sad, I wish you joy.
When you’re discouraged, I wish you hope.
When your spirit is low, I wish you beauty.
When you’re troubled, I wish you peace.”

You ever seen
infliction
of cyanide,
its weathered
a pill,
a crunch
down
on
bitter
little
a hurricane
whips up,
the hero,
can't see,
he's blind
and moves
to quick-sand.

They cry as salt hits the wounds,
as they run to the ocean
that'll only,
end in suffering
a drowning
of the dolphins,
escaping a battering,
how I wish to hate
and rip out laughing eyes,
for callous behavior,
how you're knitting
another of your stories,
I won't end my life in toxicity....