Jack R Fehlmann

Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013

For too long now,
these clouds...
Gray and deep,
like ink in water...
The landscape beneath,
barren, cold, forgotten...
Winds and rain,
lightning and thunder...
Just me, alone in this,
my way is guarded...
I'd given up,
no hope, no light...
Surrendered.
Then You came,
So bright, brilliant...
A single ray of light,
through those clouds...
You found Me,
In that light, peace...
And the ground,
hope taking root...
growing,...
that single ray exploding...
making a world I thought I knew,
New, intense and surprisingly wonderful.
A ray of light, And a world
I owe all to you.

Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013

Answers That Hurt You

Answers are curious things
When you don't know, you want to
Sometimes the questions they belong to are poisoned
Then there are the answers that cause more questions
cancerous, they multiply and the answers hurt you
Designed exponential
An endless cycle that will break and manipulate you
To no good end... never good
The wrong kind of questions

Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2013

O' We The Introverts

In days fueled by motion
most roll, go along, conform
effortless pace falls short
but if not for the weak,
then the timid, the unwanted
Unbalanced, and immune to empathy
leaving only the scorned
the ones that hear and feel more
imagine that they contribute to a world
that isn't sharing.

Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2013

I'm Not Honest Enough to Lie

I have seen myself in unflattering light,
Doing things that will surely mark this soul
Not proud, moments pride brought out
These may have taken place long ago
I'm not the same, different, better,
Still not perfect, no longer the purpose
I've learned lessons a time or two
About myself, the man inside,
I'm not honest enough to lie
Instead I'll throw around words,
barbed and deadly effective truths
I'll never spare you

Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2013

Of My Own Design

One day will change the way
I see my world, my fate and my hurt
Come to new terms
And eyes that try, as hard as mine
Suddenly find Me,
No more hiding, denying
Trying to protect,
the little I thought I had left
When inside is all that was needed
the right light
I find it though
in those eyes
welcoming,
hearts sacred sunshine.
Emotionally climbing, out
of these walls
The ones of my own design.

Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2013

About My Navel

About My Navel... by Jack Fehlmann

It is found at my center,
It acts as a reminder,
Of where I began,
Who I am from,
How it begins,
Was once an Inn-ie
Currently more an outt-ie
Forever the tether
and testament
to humble beginnings
And the parents that made me.

Jack R Fehlmann Oct 2013

New Days Dawning

just turned and started walking
on roads, side walks,
cobble stones...
into the sun, away from...
too much
i couldn't turn around if i tried
i wasn't ready
to face another day
turned
to chase
the day that was,
in a hopeless goal to take it back,
make it as it never played
that way...
just turned and the earth
turned under foot,
walking away,
the setting Sun
leading the way...
over stones,
through endless grain,
forests
and dead landscapes...
until the shores of the ocean,
Where i stood,
i fought the waves,
Where i lost
another day,
the poorest choice remained,
to turn around... accept
what was lost,
give up...
face the new days direction,
stay
or start walking
to the empty life that is
crowning
that horizon... what's gone
is done.
New days dawning.