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Challenge yourself
To do better
The tools are there
Use them in order to be sharper
Wisdom works its wonders
Just make your world shine
Find your inner strength
Take things one day at a time
I couldn't be bothered to remember that it was summer time
Until very recently, someone said it was in regards to the weather
But I can't tell the difference
Because every day without you is cold
Bullets bouncing off of wet concrete
still hot to the touch....

Outside my window, a sea of blood
millions upon millions of pictures plastered over television screens

Outside my window, bodies laid bare....
white eyes and frozen skin....

Stain glass window, one hundred million faces
outside my stain glass window....
I woke up in a different world today
A different state of mind
I gathered up my thoughts and didn't allow them to stray
I didn't have to go that far to find
What it is that I'm looking for
It was right there in front of me
all the time
I just had to recognize recognize recognize
That I only had to open up my eyes '
And watch the world change
Right there right there in front of me
So I want to take this time and say hello
To somebody that I knew but I didn't really know
So as a friend of mine
I know I know I let you down
But you were true and always hung around
As if you knew that everyone who gets lost
Is just around the corner waiting to be found
Willingly they pay the cost
As they wait to know that someone seeks to find
And the weight the weight the weight that that takes off their mind
Allows them to look in the mirror and see what they can find
I woke up in a different world today
A different state of mind
And I saw somebody that I hadn't seen
I have been trying so hard to find
I turn the tap and i washed my face
And in that mirror I saw no trace
Of all that weight that I carried on my back
The disguise was gone and it was me again
I smile at the image and I say hello
How are you
Its really nice to see you again
Really nice really
To see you again
The pain never stops
Growing pains
Head pains
Muscle pains
The pain of seeing
your face your face your face
stop
We've forgotten him,
I tell myself
And yet still the pain lingers
Interwined with all
The other small agonies
That i forget about
In the wake of *you
 Jul 2016 JoAnne Lee
SC
I don't understand
Hate begets hate
In the world I was reared within
It was eye for and eye
How does that stop
The hate?
Don't you know the pain
When a loved one
Is killed????
Don't you know
That pain never ceases?
The nightmares never ends
The hole in your heart
Insatiable
There is no comfort
You break down
At what others call "nothing"
Your soul becomes
a spiraling
Screaming agony
Excruciating
Massive hurt
God forbid anyone else
Experiences such violence
My god
I simply don't understand
 Jul 2016 JoAnne Lee
ajit peter
in the darkest sky a silver glow
thoughts of time in memories to flow
day after day I watch it grow
till he fades in the times flow
yet in momentary darkness i await his glow
never to fail the silver light in times flow
To paraphrase... .Do not worry where just step off and go - the rest is...

                         My reply :

     There was a time in my life when I would have - in chivalrous bravado - forged ahead as if to make sure it was safe , before I would seek to find someone to go with. But it took awhile to realize that it would then be my trip, my journey , not whoever I found to travel along with.
    So with patient heart and open mind I stand - poised and ready - waiting for the first steps of our journey to begin - once we find each other. Should that never happen, then to be prepared as I accept, that my journey began... back when I was born.
   I wait ; because I feel sometimes , like she's not too far away and if so -I hope she feels the same.
   I'll know... when that Journey ....becomes a dance.
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