Sarah Strack: Favorites

Feb 2017 Sarah Strack

Ink

My headphones play the song of your voice
And the words you spoke as I whispered my fears to you.
I find myself tapping my feet
To the rhythm of all love:
Chasing, cherishing, regretting, forgetting
One, two, three, four
It’s a beat my heart has been conditioned to hear
Since my mother taught me the song as an unborn.
Just like her,
I know you’ve kept my secrets secure,
And unlike you,
I have not forgotten our midnight promises.

I can’t help but close my eyes every time I long
To feel the warmth of your smile that night in August.
And there, behind my eyelids
Your image is burnt like a childhood memory
Unwilling to be forgotten.

I stare at what I remember of you as the beat pounds in my skull.
“Forever,” you had said.
“You and me- just the two of us- forever.”
It’s a shame our forever was only as temporary
As your breaths in this world were
And now that I know we were never meant to be
I’ll hold this song inside my head
And your image in my mind’s eye
Until I am forced to forget you

Love does not break because of death. It breaks by the human notion that moving on is essential, and by the weakness of the memory.

Inspired by H.A.

#love #death #forgetting #forever #memory #missing

Oct 2016 Sarah Strack

Red and Yellow

Oct 2016 Sarah Strack

Brett Palmero

Red and Yellow

Autumn is here
Today is the day
Nothing to fear
Beauty on display

Red is the leaves
Their passion showing
Allowing me to believe
There is reason for growing

Yellow as they fall
Bright and on fire
Giving hope to all
Enabling us to aspire

The world is amazing
So we should be too
Our souls glowing
Together we continue

#passion #hope #fall #beauty #soul #autumn

Oct 2016 Sarah Strack

God Damn It

Oct 2016 Sarah Strack

Brett Palmero

******* It

I'm miles away
And can't focus
Girl I love every day
Dealing with life's circus

I wait for the time
When we can hold each other
Making you leave a crime
Keeping us from one another

When our eyes meet
And our noses touch
The moment so sweet
******* it, I love you so much

AHHHHH struggle

#love #missing #distance #care #struggle

Sep 2016 Sarah Strack

The Next Step

Sep 2016 Sarah Strack

Brett Palmero

The Next Step

Can we rise without falling?
Or is it a necessity?
Idea of stopping now, calming
Yet we move forward endlessly
No matter how hard the climb
It's always one step at a time

Sometimes all I can see is darkness
That there's no hope left
But stars shine the brightest
With the inky black abreast
To achieve a life so sublime
It's always one step at a time

No matter how scary the future
Or how dark the unknown
Even if the path is rougher
And I am left alone
I will make life mine
And take one step at a time

College be like

#future #hope #step #forward #college #ready #keepmoving

Aug 2016 Sarah Strack

Silent Sounds

Aug 2016 Sarah Strack

Brett Palmero

Silent Sounds

Tick Tock
Clock hands move on

Drip Drop
Rain falls down

Scritch Scratch
My heart drawn

Tip Tap*
I wait till you're back around

In utter silence, just the thought of you can bring life to my world.

#love #relationships #waiting #sound #faraway #longdistance

Aug 2016 Sarah Strack

Deaf Preacher

Aug 2016 Sarah Strack

Brett Palmero

Deaf Preacher

Speak my mind like I'm preaching
People listen because they can follow
I speak loud and true as if teaching
Their faults and insecurities need to go
My voice revealing a new path to travel
They realize they're not alone in the fight
Hearts beating, life's woes to unravel
Taking surer steps as if given new sight
Unknown to them I keep my struggle
Deaf to my own life changing advice
All my problems and pain, I juggle
Preach without practice, stuck in a vice
I wish I could make my own choice
To wake up and listen to my voice

#alone #hypocrisy #advice #learning #deaf #preach

Jul 2016 Sarah Strack

Life's Irony

Jul 2016 Sarah Strack

Brett Palmero

Life's Irony

It takes three things to be happy
This life decides to torture us though
Two at a time it says, a thing of cruelty
For we only get to give life one go
Because of this impossible is serenity
Time, money, and energy

We begin life with an open mind
All the time we need to run free
Fast as we have energy combined
But to go at all we must pay a fee
With money we don’t have you see
Time, money, and energy

Now we are older and working
All this money to spend on us
Still have our youth to keep running
But no time, back to work we must
Caged by responsibility no longer free
Time, money, and energy

Life coming to a close, show ending
We have our fortune earned and ready
No more work, time to be spending
Alas no more energy to keep steady
Our bones ache, our youth lost at sea
Time, money, and energy

Is happiness made to be impossible?
Well that’s the funny thing really
Happiness is easily the most affordable
With 2 colours we can paint life artfully
Creating our happiness, a thing of beauty
Time, money, and energy

#life #time #money #energy #irony

Jun 2016 Sarah Strack

After

Jun 2016 Sarah Strack

Brett Palmero

After

I feel my heart beating again
The world is collapsing
There's no way out but drown
Until I realized there is an up to this down

I feel something changing,
Something writhing
It's my soul black and dead
Ignited anew by a flame instead

Changing as I change
Feeling as I feel
I am no longer the leaf
Destined to fall

There is purpose to my growth
Reason to my being
I am one of many sisters, brothers
Surrounded by others

Not held down
But kept up
They are not the similar current
So I accept something different

I am the sun
Ready to shine
Upon the leaves
That kept me so safe

A follow up to before. I can never thank my friends enough for the love and reason they bring to my life.

#love #depression #life #hope #friendship