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Tomorrow's promise of good
Is lesser in value than
Today's definite good
I ponder
I wonder
Why would anyone ever
Think that tomorrow's shaky promise
Is better than the alluring
Wonderful
Sights to see today?

Today is good and life is good
Why don't people think that way?
I can see
you two
sitting there
so happily
but you don't see
you can't see
what you two
did to *me
If you really knew me you’d understand why.
You’d get why I’m hurting you’d get why I cry.
If you really knew me you’d see through my facade
you’d see that sometimes I can be a bit odd.
If you really knew me you would see that I try,
I make mistakes, but I still get by.
If you really knew me you’d stick by my side,
you’d love and you’d help me, you’d stick for the ride.
 Feb 2012 Claire Ringen
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Thanks for girls,
Thanks for the guys.
Thanks for everything.
Life’s a surprise.

Thanks for the stars,
That twinkle at night,
Thanks for the comfort,
And thanks for the light.

Space is raining,
The sky is our hood.
So thanks for the bad,
And thanks for the good.
Breathe the sweet breath of life,
sink into the serenity of the universal stillness,
the true heaven.

I see the thoughts as emptiness,
and lightly touch them to let go.

Further & further I fell in this spiritual vortex
of the present moment,
and then I see what everyone calls "God."

I begin to weep those subtle tears of peace
because my worries & resentments have finally been released.

Another thought arises like a cloud covering the sun,
but my light is not gone. Again I light blow the cloud away.
Back to the stillness of "Now" where I belong & where I stay.

Oh, take me away sweet breath of mine,
let the stillness of the Now always shine.
If you like this poem, then you will love meditation!
 Feb 2012 Claire Ringen
SC
Frost
 Feb 2012 Claire Ringen
SC
This winter
Will freeze my soul
The snow blistering sores
But your here
With me
So I have nothing to fear

So cold
I can see my breath
The frost kills the heat
But you burned a whole
For me
That I can't see
Back and forth,
side-to-side;
moving in constant motion,
trying to decide.
"Well," I think,
"Which way to go?"
Go?

Grass flutters in the wind,
water droplets sparkle and glimmer
in the sunlight;
"Well," I say,
"I think I'll stay right here."
Tormenting distance always a shadow
this separated feeling from reality and you
Tonight I put my life on repeat for the millionth time
and sit here dreaming without ever closing my eyes

In these visions, I see red burning sunsets
that never descend below horizon's edge
I see clusters of stars raining galaxy hail
vast nebula clouds, our oceans to sail
Everyone seems to do, just fine on thier own
How come I can't stand, the thought of being alone
I'm spiraling down
Taking the innocent with me
I don't think I'll ever have the strength, I see in so many.

Darkness and silence surround me,
My horendous thoughts drowned me,
Happiness pursuades me
It pushes and it grinds
But I can't seem to find, the stability
Everyone has but, I.

I pout and vent at those around me
I give off an aura of nothing, but meloncholy
My vibes I send, aren't what you wish
If I could change these emotions
Trust me, I would in a flip

But I am stuck in a state
Of which I cannot explain
Its costing me everything; my life and my friends
None of them can feel, the pain that transends
So why be around me
I'm a burden with no mends.
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