Stained Glass: Poems

CAN'T

Stained Glass Jun 2019

CAN'T

Saying someone CAN'T be sad
because someone else might have it worse
is just like saying
someone CAN'T be happy
because someone else might have it better.

Can you feel it?

Stained Glass Sep 2019

Can you feel it?

"The dead weight of your legs from sleeping pills,
the dizziness from the alcohol,
the soft throbbing of your pulse as blood is pumped out your wrists?

That's it.
That's what we've been waiting for, that's the quiet comfort.

The beauty of dying."

Children Learn What They Live

Stained Glass Nov 2019

Children Learn What They Live

When a child lives with CRITICISM, they are taught to CONDEMN.
When a child lives with HOSTILITY, they are taught to FIGHT.
When a child lives with FEAR, they are taught to be APPREHENSIVE.
When a child lives PITY, they are taught to feel SORRY for themselves.
When a child lives with RIDICULE, they are taught to feel SHY.
When a child lives with JEALOUSY, they are taught to feel ENVY.
When a child lives with SHAME, they are taught to feel GUILTY.

If children live with ENCOURAGEMENT, they learn CONFIDENCE.
If children live with TOLERANCE, they learn PATIENCE.
If children live with PRAISE they learn APPRECIATION.
If children live with ACCEPTANCE, they learn to LOVE.
If children live with APPROVAL, they learn to LIKE themselves.
If children live with RECOGNITION, they learn it is good to have a GOAL.
If children live with SHARING, they learn GENORSITY.
If children live with HONESTY, they learn TRUTHFULNESS.
If children live with FAIRNESS, they learn JUSTICE.
If children live with KINDNESS and consideration, they learn RESPECT.
If children live with SECURITY, they learn to HAVE FAITH in themselves and in those around them.
If children live with FRIENDLINESS, they learn the world is a NICE place in which to live.
By Dorothy Law

Choice.

Stained Glass May 2019

Choice.

In the end
even the stars
choose destruction
over life.

Chosen.

Stained Glass May 2019

Chosen.

"In the end, we all just want someone that chooses us. Over everyone else. Under any circumstances."

Circumstances:

Stained Glass Apr 2020

Circumstances:

The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you're made of, not the circumstances.

#currently in quarantine with a box of potatoes

Compliments

Stained Glass Jul 2019

Compliments

"---make me feel uncomfortable cause I feel like I fooled someone into believing I'm this special person that I'm not."

Confused

Stained Glass Jul 2019

Confused

"it's silly isn't it? You could be surrounded by the people that love you, but think about the ones who don't."

CRACK

Stained Glass Mar 2020

CRACK

"When she broke your heart, did she also CRACK your spine so you would always fall in her direction?"

"Creator."

Stained Glass May 2019

"Creator."

"-- a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh."

CRUSH

Stained Glass May 2019

CRUSH

'Why am I so afraid to lose you...
when you are not even mine?'

Cry.

Stained Glass Dec 2019

Cry.

When I was little I cried about one thing that hurt me.
Now that I'm older, when I cry, I cry about everything that hurt me and it's never one thing.

Current Status:

Stained Glass Jan 2020

Current Status:

I'm walking on a tightrope that's between giving up and seeing how much more I can take.

#stress

"Damage."

Stained Glass May 2019

"Damage."

"when storms make trees take deeper roots."

darkness :)

Stained Glass May 2019

darkness :)

"you once said you were scared of darkness
and that you'd never learn'd to swim
but with its promises pumped through your veins
you held your breathe and jumped right in."

darkness.

Stained Glass Jun 2019

darkness.

they say that nothing is wasted:
either that or it all is.

Daughter?

Stained Glass Apr 2019

Daughter?

Daddy....
Your little girl is insane and she wants to die.

Daughters.

Stained Glass Mar 2020

Daughters.

'We are the daughters of men who warned us about the news, and the missing girls on milk cartons and the sharp edge of the world.
They begged us to be careful, to be safe, and then told our brothers to go out and play.'

Dear Past Me,

Stained Glass Nov 2019

Dear Past Me,

I wish that I could look at you with empathy

Sometimes I feel like I've become what you were scared to be

Which makes it really hard to look at you with sympathy

'Cause if I'm feeling bad for you, then I have to feel bad for me

And that's just something I feel like we don't deserve

nf

DEATH.

Stained Glass Jul 2019

DEATH.

"......they say is the greatest loss in life.
But it's not.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

Deep.

Stained Glass Jun 2019

Deep.

"Mom why do the best people die early?"

"When you're in a garden, which flowers do you pick?"

"The most beautiful ones."

Deep-depression

Stained Glass Jul 2019

Deep-depression

"----makes you feel like you want to disappear from the world, but sometimes, in reality, all you truly want is to be found."

Deeply.

Stained Glass Jan 2020

Deeply.

She greatly disliked emotion, not because she felt lightly, but because she felt deeply.

Deep thinkers..

Stained Glass Jul 2019

Deep thinkers..

"---I think...
        that every deep thinker is
            more afraid of being understood
                      than of being misunderstood.---"

depression

Stained Glass May 2019

depression

"a bruise that almost never goes away."

@depression

Stained Glass Mar 2019

@depression

"We all want someone to notice but as soon as they do, we wish they never did."

Depression

Stained Glass Oct 2019

Depression

where sometimes you don't want to live but you won't make the effort to die. You don't want to talk to anyone but you feel very lonely. It's where you wake up in the morning and simply wait for the night to come.

Depression

Stained Glass Mar 2019

Depression

"being color blind and constantly told how colorful the world is."

Depression

Stained Glass May 2019

Depression

"the inability to to construct a future."

Depression. . .

Stained Glass Sep 2019

Depression. . .

"is like being in a totally round room and looking for a corner to sit in."

D E P R E S S I O N

Stained Glass May 2019

D E P R E S S I O N

D eepest thoughts
E motional breakdowns
P ain
R uining themselves
E vil devil inside
S cared of living
S tressful thoughts
I njured heart
O ffensive with words
N egative thinking kills them inside

De press sion

Stained Glass Mar 2019

De press sion

is that feeling of being homesick
but not knowing where home is.

Destruction...

Stained Glass Aug 2019

Destruction...

"I desire the things that will destroy me in the end."

Different.

Stained Glass May 2019

Different.

'You don't know this new me, i put back my pieces differently.'

disappointment

Stained Glass May 2019

disappointment

She wants love but disappointment has taught her not to put any faith in it.

Distance.

Stained Glass Apr 2019

Distance.

People leave you out in the cold and get mad when you learn how to get warm by yourself.

Do...

Stained Glass Nov 2019

Do...

you ever sit back and realize ur, not anybody's favorite person, you're just kinda there and then you get the sudden urge to distance yourself from everyone and be alone?!

Does it really even matter anymore?

Stained Glass Mar 2019

Does it really even matter anymore?

Some of you cared

None of you cared enough

And neither did I

done.

Stained Glass Apr 2019

done.

Real depression
is when you stop loving the things you love.

Done.

Stained Glass Jun 2019

Done.

all the women.
in me.
are tired.

Done.....

Stained Glass Mar 2019

Done.....

"I'm not sure if I'm depressed.
                                      I mean I'm not sad
                                               But I'm not exactly happy either
  I can laugh and joke and smile
                                                        during the day,
but sometimes when I'm alone at night
                                                                I forget how to feel."

Drapetomania

Stained Glass Oct 2019

Drapetomania

(n) an overwhelming urge to run away.

̶D̶r̶a̶w̶i̶n̶g̶.̶

Stained Glass Sep 2019

̶D̶r̶a̶w̶i̶n̶g̶.̶

"̶I̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶k̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶p̶e̶n̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶d̶r̶e̶w̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶,̶
̶I̶ ̶g̶o̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶w̶r̶o̶n̶g̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶r̶u̶b̶b̶e̶d̶ ̶u̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶
̶I̶ ̶h̶o̶n̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶c̶r̶a̶f̶t̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶t̶r̶i̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶g̶a̶i̶n̶,̶
̶I̶ ̶f̶a̶i̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶m̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶m̶e̶n̶,̶ ̶
̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶l̶a̶n̶d̶s̶c̶a̶p̶e̶s̶
̶l̶a̶c̶e̶d̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶t̶r̶e̶e̶s̶,̶ ̶
̶w̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶m̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶d̶r̶a̶w̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶e̶a̶s̶e̶
̶m̶y̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶e̶s̶ ̶w̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶s̶l̶o̶p̶p̶y̶ ̶
̶c̶o̶l̶o̶u̶r̶s̶ ̶w̶e̶a̶k̶
̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶e̶s̶s̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶g̶r̶e̶y̶e̶d̶,̶
̶l̶e̶f̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶e̶t̶e̶.̶"̶

dream?

Stained Glass May 2019

dream?

Imagine being loved the way you love.

Drowned out voice in a Loud World

Stained Glass Mar 2019

Drowned out voice in a Loud World

Maybe we'll find our peace in silence

When our soul comes to be still, and know our voice can't last forever

But the truth it carries will

Eagle and Man

Stained Glass Apr 2019

Eagle and Man

Some days
he is more eagle
than man
and he is learning
how to stop apologizing
for his wild.

Earth.

Stained Glass Nov 2019

Earth.

"Yeah, seems like we're all trying to climb a ladder
It's crazy what we'll do to climb it faster
It's like we throw away the things in life that really matter
Just so that we can make it to the top, and wonder what we're even climbing after"

#nfrealmusic

Emotionless

Stained Glass Mar 2019

Emotionless

"Cursed are those who feel oceans but can express just a drop."

Empty.

Stained Glass Apr 2019

Empty.

The reason why I keep my feelings to myself,
is because I can't explain them.

end.

Stained Glass Mar 2019

end.

We lived a life of
"Almost."