As light  
            as day
      as dark as night
              calm
                   when
                          fierce
                 brave
                        when
                               frightened
                        gleeful mask
                                 when
                                        saddened
                                intelligent
                                             yet
                                                 daft
                                complete when together
                                            half a heart
                                                     when apart
                                       Yin
                                               and
                                                        Yang
                                               forever disagreeing
                                                             yet
                                                                       never apart

High school
                    a mad house
           pushing and shoving
                       with no apologies
                              people lose their manners
                     no one cares if the person they
                               shove falls
                   they keep walking
                            only caring about
                                          their destination
                                not about
                                           the people they hurt
                             most people don't care

                            high school
                                       the place were
                                     people don't care
                             and almost
                                            every
                                                      one
                                                             loses
                                                                       their
                                                                               manners

A vast intertwined thing
      floating
                  flowing
      forever
                  cycling
           has but one beginning
                     yet meets
                                   no
                               E
                                    n
                                         d
       current rushing
                              waves clashing
              cyclone swirling
                          it melts
                                    when faced
                                           with the sun
                                  storm cloud
                         a drop of rain    
                                       a temporary creak
                                                 flowing
                              water fall
                                          stream
                                                     river
                                                               pond
                                               lake
                                   sea
                                              Ocean
                                         forever rising
                                                     forever falling
                                                       drip
                                                              drop
                                                      drip
                                                             drop.

I wait in darkness
I wait in light
all ways waiting
  why you ask
do I wait
well  I respond
why does the wind whisper
why do the streams flow
why do birds fly
I respond
I simply wait
I wait patiently
I wait for someone
who you ask
that I respond
I don’t know
I am the one who waits
The reason I’ve told
but patiently
I will wait
for a person
a person I will only know
When they ask me why
I wait.

Bird that chases the wind
Child of wild things
Kid of the forest
Play now with the lost ones
Listen to their song of melody
The song is sung
Far away
Lies
A land of dreams
A land lost to history
Close your eyes
Imagine its trees
Imagine the palace
Painted by dreams
Sing along
Now child wake from your dream

A bird falls
a broken wing
Its halo shattered
for no more will it fly
for no more will it sing of
the breath of wind
beneath its wings
a broken halo
with light
that shines
with stars
no more
with
a bird
that used
to fly
The poem above was inspired by
  Chris Stapleton’s song Broken halos