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12
Rai Nov 2010
12
12 poems in a day

and my addiction

is past my denial stage

oh my when I finish

this will be 13

There is no hope

for I like it this way

My hands hurt from pumping the keys on the board

but hey every addiction has its price

And my head ever spins

In conversations I am becoming more poetic

My whole outlook

The snow glistens on the ground

When most people are worrying about the cold

I see exagerated beauty or ugliness

I go shopping to ground myself

I do job searches on line

hey I'm back here again

I thought facebook was addictive

but then i came here

and it became clear

In this poetry asylum I'll

probably rot

but happily i wish to mention
Rai Oct 2020
I’d like to reach out to you
But it’s not allowed
The universe had other things planned
Twirled around in circles
of writing poetry and sending my head in a spin
Has now been swopped for
A peaceful garden ,quiet life and homemade jam
Sounds slightly boring
But there’s a hell of a lot of peace of mind in my world nowadays .
I miss spending dark late nights with you
Laughing ,crying ,just learning to breath
But there’s more
More of something always comes along
Rai May 2023
A billion stars lay twinkling above me in the dark void of the night.

I searched for eternity
There are no answers here
Rai Jun 2015
When I was a child I thought life would be simple
Grow up
find yourself a prince
Then settle into a life which fills up all your desires
Hopes and wishes
Time was mistreated and now years later
Bones crushed and mended
Bruises faded and gone
Tears in my heart still hurt
Because I never did it right
Never found my prince
Many a frog in prince's clothing have come my way
To tease the very thought of love
To beckon and not deliver
To love and to leave
Now I am in limbo
A partner who lives in his own shell
Un needing for a life of companionship
Work and responsibilities taking up precious time
I feel alone so many times and I cant stand it
A hand to hold for just a moment
Moments are fleeting but few
But what else can there be
I fight with my feelings of unworthiness
Or my neediness
But wanting a lover and companion for more than one day in a fortnight surely that's not strange and clingy or needy
Maybe I'm just not cut out for this
I love him
But he never lays his hand upon my cheek whilst I cry
He never rubs my shoulders when they are sore
And he is not there for me to give the love I have in my heart
A crossroads
Tears fall and splash list fully upon my cheek bones
And then I will carry on living the single but not quite single life
Which comes with the absent lover
Rai Feb 2017
I'm not sure why my heart fluttered
At the sight of your tex
I'm not sure why my pulse got faster
This love affair was over such a long time ago
I guess my hearts knows more secrets
Than my head is willing to share
I can't be going there
Rai Dec 2016
Beyond the broken mirror frame
Alice sits and waits
Once this was her portal
From all her worldly restraints
Now she sits here contemplating
How to get back home
She has has no ruby slippers
Feeling isolated and alone
How to put this life most different
Back together again
Can you glue fragmented glass
Will it glisten
Will it last
Until Alice can step back through
Back to the love and life
She always knew
It time
It's time
I'm going to be late
Follow the white rabbit
He knows another way
Rai May 2012
You twisted my words
How nicely you made it seem
As though I was the one
Who had turned to ice before your heart had melted
Sorry is a strange land
It lives somewhere between denial and acceptance
Is a truth worth the burdon of unhappiness
I will take back all that was mine
And hold my own face in my hands
Your palms were so warm for a while
against my tender skin
which beckoned for the touch of another
Tears fall
But im glad to be back in my own skin once more
I will turn the music up far too loud
And dance in my mind to the journey that will now begin
Never an ending to this madness
Thank you
Im not sure what ive learnt this time around
But thankyou all the same for
Spending a little time
Drinking a little wine
Dancing beneath the sheets
To the uncurable desire
Known as lust
When the dust settles
You may understand
But I doubt it ...
All
Rai Jul 2014
All
Chalk white on skin so translucent that scars are no longer hidden
Painted emotions
Old out warn brain washed excuses
How hard are you on the inside
Whilst out here the world crumbles before your eyes  
Hold tight to the smile from a distant memory
For memories are golden
Some we retrace time and time again
Willing ourselves to relive , relearn
Fate has played an ace
You stand or fall
But even death can not **** your soul and the spirit it holds
Brother come sit with me
Journey as if a child and remember who you are and where you belong
Shake your self free from preconceived notions and tattered ideas
Freedom comes when pain subsides and you stand naked
Naked in all understanding
Ready to remember
I put my hand upon your heart and promise that I know for sure
You can never let yourself down
Learn that you are all and all is you
Rai Nov 2010
Know what u get from me*

will always be from my true self
Because  thats who I am  and will always be

make me laugh
i'll laugh with you

make me cry
I'll try to explain to you why

If you mistake my kindness for weakness
Then you better watch out

Because if anyone crosses me*
They will  have heaven and hell to fight against

I am the daughter of the wind

The child of the fire

I will cool your sences

I will bring you to your knees

When I say that I love you
Please do not hurt me

Because you do not know what you are saying

And my pain and my strength can move mountains before the gates of heaven

I will see you again my friend
if not in this life
Then maybe the next

I have known you before in many different disguises

Each time I let you near, you crucify my soul

But in doing so
**You free me from the seed which gave me life
lovin it ....love my life , love that i have been given the wings in which my mind can fly , I am proud to call myself a Poet(ess) and would have it no other way
Rai Jun 2013
I rise above the mindless mutterings
Of the fools who think gossip and folly
Is the way to enlightenment
But still I feel
The consending minds
Judging the world
That to myself
I am so grateful to  part of
Let us smile and breathe in moments of understanding
Whilst being mindful
For our people
Rai Oct 2018
She was in a hurry as she left home that day
Duvet lay crumpled on the floor where it fell as she rushed from her slumber
How could she have forgotten
This moment
The day she had waited for for so long never really believing it would happen
What a day for the alarm clock to give up the ghost
She knew she should of set the alarm on her phone
But hey
She walks down the street
A street that is embedded into her psychy
It’s been good here
The neighbours are more like family
She wondered if she would ever find a place like this again
The day was overcast but you could see a glimmer of light willing itself out from behind murky clouds
At the train station she was greeted by a rather stern face
She smiled anyway and went through the process of buying her ticket
Just at that moment she turned and caught a glimpse of him
She climbed the steps to the platform
He held out a hand
She would never go back this time
His eyes felt like home
His embrace felt like heaven
Rai Dec 2020
Put your hand in my hand
Are you ready?
Let’s go ...
Rai Dec 2015
I prayed that the heavens Angels would heal you
I now look around
And see they are already here
They bare blue gowns
They have the gentlest of touches
They grace the ward  with all the patience within
Your hospital bed stifles you
The tube intrude
Your breathing wraspping
Your life in the balance
May angels guide you
Rai May 2013
Another day
Like clockwork
we unwind from our night dreams
Emerging upon the waking world
Eager to create our dayly existence
Reaching
Ever reaching
Levels in which we can learn to understand
and remember why we turn the clock
Tick tock tick and a tock
Dream time beckons me home
But I will fight to stay alive
Anx
Rai Nov 2
Anx
Anxiety
Forming
Taking shape
Like an alien within
Morphing into
Moving
Stretching
Getting comfortable
Taking over
Until
Paralysis sets in
I don’t get it very often really , but the thought of going to a noisy pub even though the music is going to be so good and even my daughter is playing and I’ll know lots of people is just too much today .
Rai Mar 2020
I write so that I may escape
But from this
From this there is no where to run
Rai Nov 2010
As I wait for something to sparkle in my eyes
I think to myself where am I
How did I get here?
I’m in a smoky room
Also scared within my heart and soul
I wish for my forgiveness as i lay in a Smokey dungeon
As I wish that I
Am going to be ok
People gather around me
Help me I say!
Help me!
They have knives and guns
I hope they don’t **** me
As have unfinished business
To deal with
why only me
Why not my mum, dad and three brothers
But then I realise I'm dead
I'm in hell
I have made lots of bad decisions in my life  
Why hell? Not heaven?
This is written by my nine year old daughter who is off school ill today , she wanted me to add it on here , please if u leave a comment be kind thankyou x
Rai Oct 2011
She sweeps away the cobwebs with her fingertips
The silken web of a spiders thread
Do Spiders ever wonder I wonder
About using somethng more lasting
Does it depend apon the feast they have consumed
As to the quality of the thread they weave
After all to you and I
A cobweb is merely that
A nuisance
A sign of dirt
Unkept ceilings hanging with the tombs of yesterday's memories
When the sun shines through the web
It becomes a piece of art
A piece to be fashioned in silver or gold
And laid to rest upon the rich girls breast
She sweeps the cobwebs from her fingers
The silken web of a spiders thread
Then pins to her breast
A piece of art
A reminder that beauty is often flawed
To the eye
That can not see in black and white
Rai Sep 2014
The demons lurk from behind sheltered memories
Pushed down for far too long
Their strength scares the hell out of you
Rising
Pushing down
Fighting
Clawing their way into the light of the night
Scream if you will
No one will hear you
These are your own demons
The ones of your own making
Co-created within years of connectedness
Hell where are the perpetrators now
That you allowed to steal your peace of mind
And why is it the light of your soul didn't keep this from you
Scratching
like chalk on a black board
Hell have no mercy
So shall it be
Look fear in the face like a child with the  world in their hands
No one will take this from you
It is yours to own so treat your demons with respect
They have learnt you well and keep stronger demons at bay
Let them scream and dance by the light of the moon
They are but healing and becoming the past
Kiss the ground on which you stand
Soak up the rays of the sun
They will settle again
Silently revisiting the files at the base of our soul.
Rai Oct 2015
I love too hard
I feel too much
And
In
   The
        End
              I
              Fall
                   Away
                           Silently.
                                     Aching
                                               Heart,
                                                        Fr­azzled
                                                          ­          Mind,
Returning only when I have managed to find a balance
My own sweet equilibrium
*.....
Just bored and playing with words
Rai Feb 2016
No one comes here
A Barron place
Where bombs have been dropped
Words spread on paper like the blood spread across our conscience
Many battles have been faught and won here
Many man has come and gone
More gone than survived
I miss them all
Friends I thought were but candles flickering
Too tender
Too hurt and fragmented
Just visiting to vent or create
Or to connect with themselves through others
I step carefully through the rumble
There are too many ghosts
Wandering lonely
About these walls
Rai Oct 2015
She stands like a porcelain mannequin in some elite boutique*
Beautifully attired in the latest style
She moves with grace and emulates sophistication

She lowers her eyes from her mirrored reflection
Where we  see perfection
She only sees flaws

Sinking down lower
She leaves cuts
A tortured soul in a beautiful frame
Pain muffles pain

He stands receiving his medal for
Bravery and courage

A man a country can be proud to call their own
A battle won
A hero born


He lowers his eyes from the crowd
His internal battle holding him hostage
When his guilt leaves him begging in the gutter
Will you toss him a coin
Or walk on by?

Another vagabond beggar
No more than
Dirt on your feet

The same feet that walk
The very streets he made free


The child with the sparkle in their eyes
When asked what they would like to be
when they grow up

Silently reflects
With cancer riddling their bones it's not a question
They wish to ponder
But their four year old sister pushes on
Unaware that this could be their last Christmas

A time traveller of course
That way I could live forever

As long as I keep going back
To before
Or maybe forward to when they have a cure

But never worry I'll always be with you in spirit
When my body has gone

Maybe when I grow older I shall be your gardian Angel
And so it is
All imperfections are timeless
But we will not see them
Unless they are our own of course
It is then that we need to remember
**Our imperfections are what make us unique
Rai Aug 2014
Blood trickles
From sapphire teardrops
That radiate hate
Pure illumination
Rai Aug 2015
The answer is yes yes yes
Yes I do

The question is so much more complex than this

On a subtle level I'm at peace
On a physical level I'm
What the hell
But just because I can
I will
Rai Jan 2013
Be I worthy
To hold my head above the clouds in your eyes
In a sky blue horizon
She sips nectar with the
Hummingbird queen
In moments of gentle surrender
But still I ask
Am I worthy
To watch upon thee
In these moments so sublimely tender
Spiraling tears of court room jesters
To old to perform
To young to die
Be I worthy
To hold the jewels which bind thee
To the ground
With which you freely walk
See her watching the waves
Which beckon her fate
Sweet necter of a dawn so new
Crystalised in the breathe of angels
Breath upon my cheek before I fall
Sweet mother of life itself
I be worthy
I have never been so sure
Rai Nov 2010
If i close my eyes

I can see beyond the void

And into the vortex

Its warm  there

like a child

I crawl in slowly

Believing

The world

Is on my side

I feel safe

Here i may stay until

like a flower

The summer ends

And i die

Leaving only my seeds

Beautiful creation

Renewable power

The belief that miracles lie

At the centre of this vortex

Therefore there is

Always

Hope for another moment

As a flower

Within all of this existence
copy write 2010
Rai Mar 2017
My heart beats.
In moments that I don't try to understand
There you are once more,
Breathing in your darkness
Clawing the walls
Screaming for recognition.
I always thought I could walk away from this place.
I turn from you
Not anticipating
Unable to analyse
You said goodbye so many times
Once when you took your poetic knife and sliced my heart apart,
Blood dripping like rain
A mess to be cleared
And so it was.
Then when you left
And you left
And you left a space.
You walked away
One message,
One word,
One X ,
At a time.
Nothing was left.
Except the faint and faded sound of your breathe upon the screen.
And the silent scream of your torn soul aching.
Connections made
Ripped,
Jaggered
Edges.
Raw yet forgotten in time
Forgive me,
If only unconsciously.
In a moment
I feel you
In between a space.
Between the beats of my heart
And the breath upon my screen
Connections are so easily made and more easily severed
Rai Aug 2017
Do not hold back the fire that bore your soul my child
Or the darkness which tore you apart
It is the making of the man
The remembering of the soul’s call

The smell of gasoline is heavenly to my senses
Pavements rainbows
In metallic hues of loneliness laid bare
This god dam awful place
Full of virgins and nuns
Thy neighbour is holier than thou
Get down on your knees son
It’s time to pray

Where will be your salvation
But in the cries of a mocking bird
Shot dead at dawn
To relive on the horizons crest
Cry not
for sorrow has a new bed fellow
Anger leads me into temptation
My tears are my only release
Bring me back now
Please let me be forgiven

As in truth I am the same
The same as you and her and him
We are all interconnected

My sorrow is found in your lies
As your smile is found on my lips
Your guilt is nowhere to be seen
Because I have hidden it well
Between the seams of my soul
Rai Nov 2019
That numb place
Where your comfortably happy
Single equals freedom after all
Free from restraints put on you by another
Free from being judged not good enough
Free to be just who you want to be
But this god dam free place
Gets lonely at times
How do you shout that out to the world
How do you fill voids
The ones you used to fill with crumbs of affection
But affection it was
Even if
Unreal and un-lasting
And the wheel of fortune says bid your time
And your horoscope this month looks promising
But hell  girl your just run back to your safe place
The one where freedom abides and heartbreak has never mended
Your heart is scared from all the daggers that have been plunged within
This numb place is becoming less numb
The drug called freedom you realise can never be as intoxicating as that first look
That first kiss
Yet you look around
And there’s no one
No one you want to connect with on a deeper level
So you look deeper into self
You reflect
You tear yourself apart
Bit by bit by bit by bit
And then some more
Bit by bit by bit by bit
Rai Oct 2018
Time whirls past at a significant speed
Atoms dancing within the miracle we call our lives
Lines on faces appear from all the laughter we share
Tears no longer etch our pain but release and surrender to something so pure you can almost mould it within your palms
To truly love all that is part of this world
The duality framed within understanding
Feeling blessed
Every soul that has breathed upon my moments and shared in my sunrises
I bless you and the unique moments you have brought  
Hold fast and I send love to all who live with sorrow in their hearts
Yesterday I lived many lives
I had many faces
And now I help the universe to mould the future
For what are we here for
If not to remember
If not to surrender
If not to release and burn down those barricades
That keep us so trapped to a moment that no longer bares credence on our time
Live full
Live so full
The tears I catch from the sky are tainted by your love  
Live so full that the survivor within you can no longer sit in shadows believing he is a fool
For you are a king , a queen
You are
As I am I
Don't burn your butterfly wings on the heat of the moment when you can be filling the world with the beauty that is you **
Rai May 2013
Dare to believe

It's the new dimention in understanding*

Dare to believe*

**What do you have to loose
Box
Rai Jan 2016
Box
Life is perfect when you are allowed to think outside the box
To tell the honest truth
I'm not sure I've ever dwelled within that box
The walls can't cage me
The barriers they give me a goal
Something to reach past
Why would you encapsulate your imagination
When it can be freely flying
Loop da loops in the shining blue sky
Rai May 2023
’We broke  the bones of each others words and savoured on its marrow’
(Joel M Frye - talking of the old hp)
These are not my words but those of a man in passing.
I just wandered along the corridors of his soul scribbled on walls that no longer feel his presence but will forever hold the man, a poet , a friend , a blessing.
Your words can never die
They are written in stars so bright
And oceans as deep as the darkness you were left to fight .  
May you find beauty in death
May you find peace
God dam it
May you find heaven.

Oh but for those melancholy days
Where within our poetic playground we found connections like none other .
It was beautiful
It was more
It was so much more
So thank you for your part
In a time that was a blessing to us all .
May you rest
May you journey onwards discovering all that is to come

To sweetness you go
I can feel this.
Joel M Frye - I shed a few tears today , I’ll light a candle and wish you well on your journey .
Rai Apr 2013
Breath
Relax
Don't forget to breath
Hold on
Breath
Don't forget to relax
Going within
Don't forget to breath
Drowning in your own minds manifestations
STOP
Hold on
Relax
Breath
And recreate
Never forgeting to breath in life
And breath out your frustrations
Rai Nov 2010
This silence holds me and  
I learn to breathe
and as night falls
the lake  
Glistens in all its majestic glory
I see the ripples on the water
fish rise  gasping for air
And as this silence holds me
I learn to breathe
Rai Apr 2023
I feel I need to breathe in the waves of the sea,
To feel him gripping me tightly
A breath of warm breeze through the trees,
He entices my soul to fly
I breathe in your love
It is tender yet a little tinged with fear

I will surrender and flow
I will be cleansed and renewed

Or so I believe
And choose to do so

It takes but a moment to move freely through the abbess

Yet I am able to at ease

Follow
Follow
The waves  sing in rhythmic motions
Like some French composer in time with my breath.
The trees sway as I fall freely on the breeze.
Trust in the moment
And you
You must trust also for this magic to be real

How beautiful
How beautiful is it all when we take a moment to breathe  it all in
Rai Oct 2013
Tranquil moments alone with the silence
Escaping from the noise
Which seems to be constantly buzzing around my head
A  sign
Obscure in meaning
And yet needing to be placed where the multitude can take heed
See me coming and hide for cover if you wish
Silence echo's like a distant drum beat
Where you find your peace you will also feel your soul
Breathing
Silently without a murmur
Breathing in time with it all
Breathing
Your way home
To the silence within
Rai May 2023
An outstretched hand
And all I felt was cold inside…

Too many yesterdays
Leaves all my tomorrows just a day away …

Sunshine warms my skin
But my heart is so cold
It doesn’t trust
The padlock is too large
And the key is lost …

Love that is blind causes unspoken pain
Love that is soft
Becomes like rain
Love that is broken
Thats it!
It’s broken
just broken
There’s no more here to say …
Rai Dec 2012
Holding small reminders within the moments after
Frail in our own existence
Laid bare now
You have seen my darkness first hand
There is no more to me now
Self respect crumbled in pavements travelled by many a stranger
Satin touch of the purest existence
Madness holds me close to my godself
Madness frees me from my illusions of this world
There is only love which exists
Some love to love
Some live to write of love laid upon the shore
Some live to fight , to ****
Love is all there is when faced with self denial
Hold me within the softness of rose petals
But when you drop me
The thorns will make me whole again
Blood red
Beautiful
Happy to be alive within
Even if to you all
You only see a broken frame
Rai May 2019
I was crawling out of a hole as deep and dark as the sentiment in your eyes
A meaningful moment of surrender beckoned
But I found myself
Crawling backwards it seems

Fingertips touching the glasses rim
and then my lips
Cherry blossom comes to mind

Remembrance comes and goes

Take the broken crayons
I don't care if they still colour the same
They are broken god dam you
Rai Jan 2018
Like a child
I will build a den
With blankets thrown over tattered sofas
Corners stretched and pulled
Tucked in edges
Tables wanting to be castles
Carpets
Moats and dungeons
Beware
Entrance only open
To those who know the secret password
Friends etched in China cups
Bears replace the need for human touch
Dolls speaking in the oldest of tongues
Your brother tied to the nearest tree
Indians are coming it's time to flee
The blankets have fallen
The toys are all free
Rai Apr 2016
Do not touch my fragile skin
Your finger tips burn my soul
I do not need the love you hold in your heart
It is dark and wanting
You stray from the path
The wolf of fairy tales is your guide
Slowly step away from me
Take your sun from my eyes and your moon from my nights
I love only the earth below my feet
All else means that this is no longer fantasy
Burning desire
Blood dripping
Miracles are made when we forget to distrust
You wandered passed me
You turned your head
I so wish you had turn down a different road
I'm happy alone
Shall I shout that from the highest hill
IM HAPPY
Now roll back down and retrieve your crown of thorns
Righteousness dressed in evil disguise
Do not touch my fragile skin
Please look down and pass me by
Your sight upon me burns my soul
I can't live that way again
Rai May 2021
To land briefly upon the moment we call forever
To hover timelessly
Waiting in anticipation for more and yet knowing it is not to come
To sleep with shadows hovering
This much and more we will injure before we are able to escape our own sweet madness.
To land briefly is what we humans do upon this earth
Make your mark and leave it a better world for having been apart of its journey through space and time .
Rai Jan 2018
When I'm alone I feel like a whole
Fragmented memories serve no one so
Lovers are soon forgotten
The calm takes over
And I can forget how broken
My heart really is
Cradled in your arms
I felt torn
Snuggled in your bed
I felt wretched
Love lies
Tares and crusifies
Who am I to walk around this world like a broken fool
Freedom
Peace of mind
Serenity
Love of self
Denial that there is any other way
Rai Jul 2023
A friendship carved in stone
Strange markings only recognisable to those connected by fate
Destiny spins its wheel
Ever spinning
Ever knowing
We were always ment to walk this way.
The day  feels warmer with you by my side
The wind is less harsh against my skin .
But the sea
The sea still beckons me
Singing it’s song
The sirens call
And I wander  the cliffs looking for a treasure to bring back and lay at your feet
A token of my love
Carved in stone
Like my love for you
born from the womb of understanding
Held by life
Released upon the sea
To float freely on the tide that laps upon the shore.
Rai Apr 2020
Silence trickles gently
down hillsides and cheekbones
In a hue of emotions
Cascading in torrents
How blind are those
That only skim the surface
Never delving into depths
Letting go
Sinking sweetly into oblivion
But trusting in the divine
To hold them above it all
Rai Jan 2011
She knows all the ways to make you crave her
She knows every move to keep you close
She holds the binding threads of your heart in her hands
And pulls them tight to stay in control

She knows the force to make you stay here
She cast her spell
She boiled her brew
You drank the poison from her cuplet
Now you will never let her go

The flowers of spring lay on her pillow
So devinely sweet is she
You would hold her by her heart strings
You would cast your spell of love

She knows not how she came to be here
Skin next to yours upon your bed
Soft as silk you kiss her forehead
The poison given goes to her head

Once bound by love
You both will know now
The ties you both have bound so well
Each other cast unto the other
Silken flowers take a bow


Be one with earth and sky and heaven
Holding back is no longer a choise
cast your spells in yonder cauldron
Drink from each others cuplets
Poison travels through yur blood

Now you are bound
By the laws of each other
sacred to those who believe
Hold on tight through out your life
In time the binds will loosen and
your love will freely grow
cpy:2011
Rai Mar 2011
We all change
What stays sitting silent for too long
Rots away
Becomes meaningless
Some obscure English poet
Im  not sure of  his name
Thought it wise
To write his thoughts upon paper
When he made that paper into a book
We had at last created a masterpiece
copywrite 2011
Rai Nov 2015
This time last year making plans
Funny how much can change so quickly
I'm so sure I was madly in love with you and you with me
But when you are unable to help pick up our broken pieces
When you would rather turn your back and hide from what's going wrong
Without gluing back together the important bits that make it love
When I don't seem to miss you quite as much as I thought I would
I'm not sure it was true love or just a dream lost on a whisper
You held my heart twice
Let go twice
This bird is flying free never to return home
Rai Jun 2022
Nothing touches us so deeply
Than the tears of our children
When darkness engulfs them
Smothering all the beauty of youth
When adulthood is just too hard
And they need to crawl back to the womb
But are too stubborn
Too addicted
Too afraid
What does your heart do when stretched
Beyond recognition
Fragments of a childhood laid ****** and bare for all to see
And there’s nothing you can do there’s nowhere to run from this
The mistakes you made
You loved too hard
You scolded too little
You were too hard when softness was needed
Too soft when you needed to be harder
And all you can do is be there
Be solid and be present
Even when the child is running at the speed of light in the opposite direction
Be present
Be available
Swallow this bitter pill
And pray upon your knees
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