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Serene May 2020
It’s quite the contrary
For the things that nearly broke me
To end up as the very foundation of my rebuilding
The same things that caused my crumble
That left me in wreckage
Buried in debris
Questioning if I could ever again stand on my feet
Became the cornerstone of my very being
That which didn’t **** me, though it nearly
Truly did make me stronger
I once stood with shaky knees and trembling hands
Legs threatening to buckle beneath me
It was the hell of it all
Collapsing into myself
The final straw that caused my longest darkest fall
That forced me to pick up the pieces
And build myself into an indestructible wall
Because it was either build or wallow and die amongst the wreckage
Either craft myself a lifeboat
Or drown in the sea
But I chose to stay afloat
And now all the bad things
They’re what make me, me
Of course I don’t think
I deserved what happened to me
But these were the seeds that were planted
That which nourished my growth
These are the cornerstone
They tried to break me
But all they did was make my structure unwavering
Mark Toney Oct 2019
Love's cornerstone set
Forty-five years together
Dear wife of my youth
Our sons, their wives, our lives full
May love's embrace continue...

          ~ to the moon and back ~
7/14/2018 - Poetry form: Tanka (plus a celestial reference) - Copyright © Mark Toney | Year Posted 2018
TheWitheredSoul May 2019
When the person you love
feels ,you've become the person they loved then
The person you love will become the person who loved you and
no matter how hard you try,
their loss , their memories and your love for them becomes your cornerstone and
There is nothing in this world that will help you snap out of it.

No books , no prep school , no charity , no clubs , no friends ,no amount of alcohol , not a hundred dates ,  not even writing a thousand poems about them is gonna help you snap out of it.

Your love,your true unrequited love will forever persist as your cornerstone from the day you fell till the day you fall.
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Fall=>death.     Fell=>fell in love.
If Love is a suicidal then unrequited ones are the ones where you chose to commit suicide From the day you fell in love to tge day you actually die.
Jude kyrie Mar 2019
Origami
Sometimes
when you stare at me.
I feel naked in front of you.
no more  
than a sheet of white paper.

your eyes cut me
like razor blades.
Your white teeth
chew my shapes.
you have all the powers
I am being folded
into the object that
you want  me to be
all that you desire.
A deer
a bird
a aeroplane.

your deft fingers fold
and crease  my shape.
can you not see.me
my flesh is soft and pliable.
my heart is beating
with passion for you.

my mind is clear and decisive
I crave only your love
Your acceptance.
And yes.
your tenderness

yet you fold me once again
I feel the pain of each crease.
Yet I know the truth.
in your eyes
I am but origami
KathleenAMaloney Aug 2016
Courage
Being What
It Matters Not
Our Lives
Not Made
For  Infamy

This Standing Rock
Upon The Ground
Hurled Once
Against Myself
A *******
Of Thy Own Word

Wheel Of Flesh

Now, Just a Rut
In the Road
Remembrance
Of
Loves Path
Torin Nov 2015
And now he stands here before you
Crucified by you, but once again alive
By the love of god alive

He is the stone that the builders refused
And he's become the head corner stone

The almighty laid a stone in Zion
A precious stone, for a sure foundation
And those who rely on it shall not know fear

Because the stone that the builders refused
Becomes the head cornerstone
The lord he has done this
And it is marvelous in our eyes
Bob Marley teaches us, a retelling of a story from the bible.
Jennifer Weiss May 2015
If you really believe in something,
then friend...you better buckle up.
Because I believe so much in this one thing,
and the roads have never been more rough.
I have thought copiously about just giving up.
That my luck was over,
and that it wasn't half full or half empty with this cup-
No, it was more like...when did the cup dry up?

And that's the moment I realized what I needed to learn.
If this one thing is that thing for which all of me yearns?
If it is my destiny?
My heart?
What I am praying for in both light and dark?
Then why did I ever allow myself to give up?
Why would He make it happen if I didn't believe He could?
So now,
from this moment
I will no longer lack faith.
Because my God is the God
**who can do all things.
Even when it looks and feels impossible.

— The End —