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Joshua R Laird Oct 2012
God, I believe in you...
Do you believe in me?
There are wonders in this world
That I don’t need to see
They’re there.
There’s music still unsung
That I don’t need to hear
It’s here.
There are trees that stand so impossibly high
How high I don’t understand
But they stand.
There’s life in the ocean that is so incredibly small
That no man could gaze to see
It’s in the sea.
There’s love inside my soul
That burns for one I have not met
But she’s there
Somewhere....
And she’ll find me yet.
There are those that say there are no Angels
But they are there
Everywhere...
And mine will find me yet.
God I believe in you
Do you believe in me?
There’s life I haven’t lived
What do you need from me?
Joshua R Laird Sep 2012
Little Bird...
You’ve captured my heart
Broke & Black & Ruined I thought…
To Every passing cloud you sing
To Darkened souls a light you bring

Sing little Bird, sing & lift me up...
From the drowning waves of Sorrows Pool
Sing little Bird, sing & carry me up…
To the waning light of tomorrows moon

Oh little bird…
You’ve lifted my soul
Dank & empty & dark as coal…
To every shade of color you kiss
To every sun that’s set I missed

Fly little bird fly and show me the way…
From the oceans of wonder to Heaven’s Gate
Fly little bird Fly, & carry me away
From the Oceans of Hell & to my fate.
Joshua R Laird Sep 2012
Stacked are my days with nothing changed
And only night to tell them apart
Wishing and hoping and dreaming

Breath by breath and closer to death
Measured with beats of my heart
Clawing and scratching and seething

Wanting for touch withering away
Feeling less with every thought
Crying and begging and pleading

Surrounded by those who understand love
Heaven denied from the start
Searching and praying and needing

And still.... I wait.
Joshua R Laird Aug 2012
Heaven is a walk through the gardens of hell
If you stop and smell the flowers… you burn your feet
Silence is the song of the tortured mind
Never was a sound that sounded so sweet
Love is a disease that infects the soul
& Pain reminds you it’s there
Hope is a dream that keeps you alive
It bridges the gap between love & Despair
Despair is a drug that keeps you from living
Living is an addiction to life
Life is a place between Heaven and Hell
A lesson learned only through strife
Joshua R Laird Aug 2012
A winding Journey down soft white cheeks
Translucent salty fluid grief
Or are they shared along with smile
A mother’s love for newborn child
Do they bide with splintered dreams
Thoughts of past and better things
Do they come when loved ones go
With renewed hope do they flow
Crystal globes of hidden shame
Bursting torrents of pride unchained
Releasing binds of truth and pain
Cleansed eyes and soul for a brand new day
Joshua R Laird Aug 2012
I lie awake... visions haunt my altered mind.

& I think... of days before my stolen life.

& I scream... I wish to God that I could cry.

A twisted mangled mesh of wires hiding neath my man made skin.

Liquid filled electric pulse the half of me that lies within.

The other half will fade away as nature runs her course.

My nightmare though will never end I'm made to live by force.
Joshua R Laird Aug 2012
Lost in a white flower maze…
Butterflies rise while demons rage.
Home is forever, forever gone…
Snow is home now from dusk until dawn.
Hear me; hear me now my beautiful child…
The snow is deceiving, wicked & vile.
Blissful at first…Healing the pain,
& then comes the storm, blinding with rain.
Lost… in a white flower maze…
Demons run free while Angels wait…
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