#accepted
some days numbers haunt each step
counting up, counting down
constantly moving all on their own
shadowing choices made
and choices rejected.
Mar 13
Mar 13, 2026 at 9:22 AM UTC
If recognition is love with time mixed in
I hope I'm partial to the skin I'm in
I've returned over and over in this drought to a well
Deep inside that's been run dry but once was a swell
I can still feel the spray on my cheek
The mist in my mind formed rivers and creeks
And wetlands and oceans
And gallons and gallons of directionless devotion
And what have I purchased with all of this effort?
Time alone with myself and square inches of pressure
And if recognition is love with time to breathe,
I'll see myself in each exhale, a sigh of relief
Jan 23
Jan 23, 2026 at 1:54 PM UTC
If you never try you'll never lose
Hanging hopes oh-so-high
Accepted the ground is my home
Safer than attempting to fly
Sep 20, 2025
Sep 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM UTC
It was another strange dream
Suddenly I found myself looking out an upstairs window at people arriving below
Then I thought "Wait a minute, where am I ? What house am I in ?
I don't have an upstairs, I live in a bungalow (only a ground floor)"
When I went downstairs there was this big Christmas tree up
I thought to myself "But I...I didn't put up my Christmas tree yet
And there were lots of people there and some familiar faces
And they all seemed to be smiling at me, as if accepting me there
As if there was nothing unusual, as if I belonged there.
It was like a party was going on
And then I seen my brother sitting amongst them all
One of his hands was bandaged
I didn't think it polite to ask him about it
Beside him was another younger relative
I was amazed astounded because this relative he had died a few years earlier, in an accident
Yet here... here he was right here before me
I thought to myself "This must be some kind of... some kind of Parallel
Universe I'm in where things turned out differently"
It made me wonder was my own world then just an illusion
It seemed so far away now... so distant
Suddenly I started to get a little afraid, I thought "But I don't know this world...this place
I don't... I don't belong here
How do I get out of here
How do I get back... back to my own world....
Soon after this I awoke...again back in my own bed...back in my own world.
Jan 20, 2025
Jan 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM UTC
“Oh soldier, my soldier,” GOD calls out from the forest. In the leafy greens and cerulean creeks, surrounded by birds and bumblebees, sits a soldier by Dei’s stream. His forearms over his knees, with chainmail as his sleeves. He wears a helmet of iron, looking through dark little slits, at the dandelions and daisies, and how their petals flick.
“My child, My beloved,” GOD whispers through the reeds, a misty fog creeps up the warrior, through tiny holes it creeps. A spirit lingers among the branches, aware of every sound. It is everywhere and somewhere, a spirit with little sound. GOD strolls through the wilderness, looking for his lamb. And that’s where he found him. And took him by the hand.
“Oh lost lamb, I’ve been looking through the high and mellow creaks. I have searched from dawn to dusk now, I’ve found the one I seek.” GOD hovered round the man, until the knight gave in, raising up his voice, though silence he was in.
“Your lamb, you call me, yet You have nothing to herd. I’m here and unmoving, I’m a tree and I’ve been rooted. How long can You circle me, like a lion on a hunt? You know that I’m unyielding, I’ll slander You if I must.” The soldier replied in his poetry, words twisting the knife. But GOD saw through his heart, and responded with no spite.
“I’ll circle you a million years and wait until you fall. Then I’ll catch you in my arms and answer when you call. I’ll take the slander to My name, and I’ll wait until the day that you find Me and knelt down you say, ‘Lord take my pain away’. I’ll turn your armour into streets of gold, I’ll collect all of your tears. You shall hunger no more, nor shall you thirst; I shall feed you and lead you unto living fountains of waters. This I promise forevermore.”
Then with weeds and sombre creeks, the knight sat there with no steed. Alone the soldier thought he was but GOD still circled, an echoing verse. “Away from me, Lord, I’m unworthy,” the soldier said, without an apology.
“I forgive you, child. I take you in, a meal and drink you’ll have your pick. Once unworthy, by Son you are, now take the Crown, the Crown of Glory. I am the GOD who was and is and is to come, nothing will change that. Nothing, my son.”
Sep 9, 2024
Sep 9, 2024 at 10:39 AM UTC
I accepted him
I accepted his goals
I accepted his needs
I accepted his bads
I accepted his goods
I accepted the perfect and imperfect
I accepted.
Karena sedari awal aku tidak ingin main-main.
Aku ingin baik-baik saja denganmu dalam waktu yang lama
Aku ingin bersama dalam baik buruk nya keadaan
Bisa kah?
I give you full of my heart
I trust you
I trust your intellect
I love you always , all ways.
Apr 12, 2024
Apr 12, 2024 at 8:13 AM UTC
The grand canyon runs between
the part of Mohave County blessed
with coverage
after the fallout
from the fifties,
and the lower part, south of the river,
east of the bend, there at Topock swamp.
Cancers above the line made by the river,
were rewarded, cash in some cases,
class actions and such, after the bloom
in GI Bill Law School Degrees…
leukemia in babies,
Downwinders in Mojave County,
just ended, dead, of northern afflictions.
Things like that and Julia Roberts,
got the voters to agree,
Lawyers should advertise,
- leading to what we have today
free speech, facing a true Kuhnian shift,
Directly presented, plain
for all
to see,
What freedom of the press was
to the owners of all means of exploitation,
freedom of speech, after internet, aight, is to any.
Any who, even you.
Who,
should any ask what Marshall McLuhan
continues to do, through 'is link to all you know,
text in context, denoting informed consent, you
think, as you read, and so
doing you do the deed, done so. We read,
thinking back
only one long mortal lifetime ago, we mostly did not.
On the whole,
have you never imagined
how many more of us know,
what was against the law for beings of the baser sort,
to learn, long
a tradition among the power elites, owners,
of all the national resources,
in a global syndicate,
entities, interests, trusts 'n'such, which
follow the pattern of the jewel merchants,
control the sources.
Restrict library cards immediately,
Carnegie is laughing from his grave… his will
- he did appreciate his Kipling
written in Indian Ink, under the Raj, If inspires yet,
as does Gunga Deen.
Film. Yes. Won't last. that medium,
too much trouble to watch it again, when
one can read a play, or a novel, or a poem per
haps forever, if the terminii are all out of sight.
As a lad, I was allowed to watch all the television,
I wished, and I wished I had a thousand channels,
in 1955, when Wyatt Earp got his life and legend
projected
into the worth cube at the core of mankind…
for all American boys, pun is there, naturally, all
of us American boys, no matter what our mommas were,
we, 1955, had been pledging five days a week, aliegiance,
we were sons of soldiers who had won the last war,
the one in all the inspirational Hays code cleared war movies.
Realist mind game art, in context, humbled,
by the giants tuned into, before the contest began, Truth
who dares, all comers. Common mental trope, all comers
come on, oppose my point and fall across my edge.
Little children, keep your selves from idols, such as
hold I role in all active avatars at any given point
in time, in tyranny over your bit in the mind of man,
taken to play mind games that are crafted for enjoying
the peace of selective reality powers we all can attain.
Write your self a tower to watch from, and watch,
Carnegie reading Kipling
by kerosene Rockefeller sold… meld into if
if you wish, imagine lampblack ink, or better,
squid ink, infused with carbon so pure, it seems
invisible, finest dust of diamond waste, used once
to shine a patterned steel san-mai blade.
Imagine the very smartest, not Einstein, person
alive when decisions were being discussed, crossing
swords with science use and useless social controls,
e.g. you know,
gra-acious example, interesting times, sifting selectors
goodness gracious, we have, in point of fact, too much
to filter with no reason,
why should one care to know why secrets are de rigueur,
poor soul asked what is going on, replys,
regular stuff, I suppose… ah, ag me on, suppose,
I invited Ben, Voltaire, and Nieztsche to cheese,
as I morphed into the Disneyified U.S. Certified myth.
The mouse in Ben and me, was the voice of the NPC.
- we had Verne's spinning disc libraries since
- drop a name from the hagiosphere of AI and IT
- Grace Murray Hopper… she's a memory.
Such books, we hold, as factual data, they hold words,
we, the current people, the fluid factor through which
CG NPCs pass in movies and games and entertainment,
- each pass think
who notices other people?
All the time, I mean, who cares, most of the time?
Crazy edgies, mad folk, filled with insights some time
passing left as artifacts, if you can believe this,
your world view shall encompass all one need know
about
why
we speak of the fall, and of original sin, we allow
priests and politicians and attention pimps, to lie.
Today, own self, and whole self,
declare adaptive lettering tech, publishing far and wide
art insisting, dare do,
think it through, couple thousand words,
what if you learn one cool new way
to think unthinkable things good
to know… post hoc.
Aug 7, 2023
Aug 7, 2023 at 9:13 PM UTC
I've accepted cold reality
You truly are forever gone
Without your presence I feel empty
Hard to find the strength to go on
Sep 5, 2022
Sep 5, 2022 at 9:03 AM UTC
I've been lost. I've been found.
I've been up, down, and around.
I've been here. I've been there.
It feels like I've been everywhere
Without going barely anywhere at all.
I've been accepted. Rejected.
Made fun of by my peers.
But i'm here to tell you if I've made it through,
There's hope for you too.
Just breathe,
and don't be embarrassed
If you shed a few tears
May 19, 2021
May 19, 2021 at 9:11 PM UTC
Already buckled in the backseat
I’d want to come to the grocery
And while you’d push the basket
I followed after so closely
We dug up weeds and planted poppies
Gold and vermillion
And I remember I felt my heart drop
When you said you can’t be friends with your children
I remember thinking
If you can’t accept me then how will I accept myself
you taught me everything
If you can’t accept me how will I accept myself?
And I’m not gonna get my confirmation
But I really want to make you proud
I know it’s not what you expected
It’s harder to say some things out loud
I didn’t get the chance to tell you
She told you before I could say a word
And then I didn’t want to talk about it
I ran away, I lost my nerve
You gave me all the space I wanted
That was four years ago
until it seemed like you’d forgotten
Until I moved to Chicago
And I was thinking
If you can’t accept me then how will I accept myself
You taught me everything
If you can’t accept me how will I accept myself?
And I just want to feel accepted
But I really want to make you proud
I know I’m not what you expected
It’s harder to say some things out loud
Dec 26, 2020
Dec 26, 2020 at 2:11 AM UTC
she was afraid
when they looked
at her
what did they see
always wondering
what they were thinking
how do they feel
analyzing every
little thing she said
overthinking
she just cared
so much
she just wanted to be
accepted
Sep 22, 2020
Sep 22, 2020 at 11:31 AM UTC
The absolutely radical,
Mind boggling idea of being accepted.
-A fantasy served with insecurity
On the side, stained
With the lipstick you only wear
On third dates, the idea of
what love "should feel like"
Bubbling below the skin
Until you get blisters and boils,
sick and heady but starry eyed.
Ignoring the naysayers,
Oh so what if sleeping beauty
Gets roofied here.
The potential to get shattered,
Identity mutilated beyond recognition
Is, after all, a small price to pay
If you finally get to.. Belong.
Jul 11, 2020
Jul 11, 2020 at 6:34 PM UTC
Pressured at the age of eleven to allow unwanted hands crawl up my body,
Pressured at the age of fifteen to give up my virginity,
Pressured at the age of sixteen to give into my addiction of feeling accepted -
Not accepted by others, but by boys who only love you if you give them handjobs.
Jul 29, 2019
Jul 29, 2019 at 3:11 AM UTC
That night when I confessed,
My heart was beating loud and mind a little stressed,
I did put my feelings in my text,
Them my heart lost control with a little pain in chest.
Then closing whatsapp what I did,
Drank 5 glasses of water and from high blood pressure I get rid,
And once again logged in chat where your words were hid.
"Why we're you offline" you asked,
Told you how I felt at last,
You told me your story which cracked my heart with blast,
And your official no to my proposal made me to live without my first love which was my last.
I still don't believe in your story words,
I am waiting for you with a heart full of scars,
Once again I want to say you "I love you"
And want to listen the same from lips of you
But what would be the answer is all up to you.
May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019 at 10:25 PM UTC
There was a time in my life where I denied who I was
As we grow we strip parts of ourselves away and put different pieces back together
Different skins and faces and depths of ourselves get changed as we face new challenges
But for me when I was young I saw a part I wanted to keep
A part I felt would make an important staple piece of what made me who I was throughout the changes that would come
After a while I think it weighed me down and I couldn't be defiant and brave enough to be wholeheartedly myself anymore
So I pushed it back and put on a face I knew would be acceptable
I think I'm slowly finding that part again
Maybe this time I can be brave enough to keep my head held high
Apr 19, 2019
Apr 19, 2019 at 8:39 AM UTC
He is our God,
the great, "I AM;"
Who created us,
'fore time began.
~
He cares for us,
as nobody could;
He's accepted us,
when no one would.
~
He's watched us grow,
He's watched us play;
And He never once,
turned His face away.
~
The great, "I AM,"
deserves our praise;
Not only on Sundays,
but everyday.
Mar 29, 2019
Mar 29, 2019 at 9:37 PM UTC
The eyes can't lie,
hearts can't pretend,
overflowing joy and love,
in You, that I found.
Never I had imagined,
sins were forgiven,
***** yet accepted,
in You, I was saved.
I am broken,
You completed me,
Longing to be with You,
And now, you embraced me.
Nov 26, 2018
Nov 26, 2018 at 12:35 AM UTC
How it must feel
To be a traitor
To everyone who's loved you
Does he know what we did?
Would he still love you?
Call me disgusting
A horrible person
Manipulative even
I hope he learns
And that he leaves
So you are alone
And I hope you know my pain
Sep 16, 2020
Sep 16, 2020 at 12:08 PM UTC
Unfortunately you are not for everyone. Not everyone will like you. Not everyone will love you regardless of what you do and how nice of a person you are. Not everyone will vibe with your energy and not everyone will understand and support you.
Even though it is a bitter pill to swallow at times don't let it make a turmoil of your emotion and deplete your energy. Because your time and energy is so much more precious than exhausting yourself by shapeshifting to pander to the whims of others, moulding yourself to fit in every where and hence retaining no shape to call your own.
Choose not to sacrifice your uniqueness to succumb buttering up their bread. To Be selective with your energy by politely waving them goodbye to stand by your values and lifestyles that most deeply resonate with you. Choose to take social risks regardless of the awkward glances and haughty whispers. Choose to not care of what others think to the point it stifles your ability to take risks and disrupt your social satisfaction.
For there is nothing more liberating than to not waste your life allowing the faultfinders to dictate your actions. To seek to align your actions with your heart. To stand up for something, to do and believe what brings content regardless of it being disliked. It is beautifully candor being your authentic self.
Sep 18, 2018
Sep 18, 2018 at 6:50 PM UTC
She never wanted to be prettier
Nor that she wanted to be better.
Only wished to be accepted.
-HIY
Apr 2, 2018
Apr 2, 2018 at 11:38 PM UTC
Hi, I'm Samantha.
I like to write poetry.
Maybe you do too?
It started quite some
Time ago when I thought to
Put words on paper.
Now I'm here, writing
Some simple little haikus
For everybody.
I hope you enjoy
My collection of poems.
Please have a nice day.
Dec 2, 2017
Dec 2, 2017 at 9:39 PM UTC