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Randy Lee Apr 2018
I put my hand on your chest
and I hold it there
absorbing your love
and this thought tracks into my mind
that because you're not mine
that maybe I am not okay at all
just then
a thought, or maybe a lack thereof
hits me and I think
as I begin to cry
that maybe I am exactly okay
as okay as I should be
given the circumstances of this world
the latest in the path of my old soul
maybe I am better than okay
and I should be crying, because
all these innocent people dying everywhere
I'm trying to make a difference
on the circumference of this sphere
I'm trying to love others despite this fear
but what I'm thinking now
is that I need to love others
because of this fear
something we share
Randy Lee Mar 2018
Love is now illegal.

No longer may you empathize with the broken.

You must never talk to strangers.

No more spontaneous hugs.

No more finding common ground.

Divisiveness is a requirement.

Joy is no longer to be found.

Tomorrow's docket? Argue over nothing.

Hate your neighbor because they're different.

Politics is all that matters now.

Do you hear that silence?

It's a deafening sound.

Judge everyone from a pale horse.

Religion brings a sword to strike them down.

Nothing left is meaningful.

Don't hold that door for that woman.

That's ****** harassment now.

Don't use that bathroom.

Handicap is a gender now.

You may not own a gun.

If you do you'll **** children.

And become the talk of the town.

What have we become?

What happened to fearing fear itself?

I'm tired of chain-smoking.

I'm tired of the now.

It's not about amendment rights.

It's not about trump cards.

It's not about those clowns.

It's about each other.

It's about being understood.

When we become empathy..

There's no room for any blood.

In Love be lost and found.
Randy Lee Mar 2018
The world outside just makes me wanna run and scream and hide inside my mind behind the wings of my demons, and in there is where I cry out and pray that someday my angels will finally learn how to fly me away back home, even if it is just for a short stay so I can permanently learn from all of my 3-D mistakes and come back as the man that God had originally made, and I say God for lack of a better term, because I really truly have no idea how to define the indefinable, yet I know that there is something there that transcends time and gives me hope, a tangible feeling in my forehead my mouth my throat my heart my guts my *** and “wee wee wee” all the way to my toes, like electricity spiraling down into my soul... some days I wonder where my heart is, since it is not at home… this incredible journey feels like an away game in the Stanley Cup playoffs, everyone in this stadium is rooting against you, yet what they do not realize is at the end of the day, we are all rooting for the same team, and that is to feel belonging, to feel loved, to feel accepted, to feel understood... and we only root against each other because that is what everyone else is doing, and I for one am tired of being a ******* puppet, I’m tired of being shown the differences in all of us, I’m tired I’m tired I’m tired, and I want to go home..

But what I really truly deep down desire is to make this place here my own... To throw away my phone and look each person I’m blessed with in my life in the eyes and tell them “I love you, and you don’t need to be anything other than who you are for me to Love you... welcome home.”
Randy Lee Jan 2018
I am a work of art in progress...

The brushstrokes that have been the hardest to paint, become the most beautiful parts of me...

I am a work of art in progress...

All of life is God’s canvas.. He created the heavens and the earth, but He is still creating me.
Randy Lee Jan 2018
I just want a chick who is as ***** as me, but also showers regularly
Randy Lee Jan 2018
Maybe I picked up some dad skills. Maybe I already knew. Maybe all they need is attention…

That is all anybody wants, really. To feel like somebody gives a **** about them, to not feel lonely.

That is why he cries when he wakes up from a nap, or in the morning... because he wakes up alone. He just wants to know that you are there, and that you care.

Although he doesn’t need you to hold him all the time, there will be (has been that) time when he falls upon his head, and he’ll need you by his side...

All of this is the sugar on top of succeeding in the effort to not let him die.

;)
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