#hurdles
She was a ray of
sunshine; someone
you could easily
call inspiring.
She reached to me
and she gave hope.
"If you don't jump
you'll never get
over the hurdles."
and so for her,
everyday,
I leap.
Dec 21, 2025
Dec 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM UTC
Opportunities are knocking, but hurdles are approaching.
Opportunities are knocking, but hurdles are approaching.
Whenever you try to escape, chains of resentment grow narrow.
Whenever you try to speak, chains of communication grow shorter.
Nov 22, 2025
Nov 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM UTC
with rain kissed plumage
cold in the moonlit expanse
over the evergreens i see below
- - -
i am free
as far as these shackles
will let me be
Nov 30, 2020
Nov 30, 2020 at 2:36 PM UTC
Life can sometimes
Be the pits
But it’s the pits
That protect the seeds
That make
Things grow
Into the sweet and tender
Jul 21, 2020
Jul 21, 2020 at 3:19 PM UTC
Life, if not a gift,
then what else is it,
a hurdle race, yes,
but are they for you to stop.
Did you lose hope?
why was then no despair?
why didn't you give in?
to the anger, why you lived?
You still regret, don't you?
those old memories,
why are there now comparisons?
with people, you care no more.
You have an ambition,
desire to achieve,
dream you can't unsee,
then don't sleep in sadness.
FIght back the tears,
no moment to spare,
conquer your fears,
a gift then will emerge.
Jun 14, 2020
Jun 14, 2020 at 1:53 AM UTC
Like every *** has a limit
So does every existing heart
As to the weight of emotions
It can carelessly contain.
So let not the *** overflow
Or the heart over bloats.
Do often share sums of it
With the hearts that lack it
Or you’ll fail to handle
The hurdles God throws.
Feb 28, 2020
Feb 28, 2020 at 12:50 PM UTC
there's always a way out
it might be vague at first
possibly opaque
but, at the end of the day
you will look back
at the dark tunnel behind
and you won't believe that you were there
once
...
Nov 23, 2019
Nov 23, 2019 at 2:45 AM UTC
You left room to follow
Bitter tears to swallow
All your fear came
Cascading down
And you could not feel the ground
Heartbreak stood to greet you
Came close to defeat you
In a penny
In a pound
Your bruises don’t make a sound
It hurts to continue
Love blurry, out of view
How do you save
What can’t be found?
Wish I knew that right now
I cannot repair you
You’d never ask me to
I see bruises
Eyes tear bound
Yet you press on somehow
Darling, you are a song
Sorrowful, but so strong
I’ll whisper goodnight
Kiss your brow
And love the tearful clown
Oct 21, 2019
Oct 21, 2019 at 9:50 PM UTC
Choices or challenges in life regardless of their outcome should be viewed as stepping stones to a wiser and more beautiful you.
The more you’ve been through the more aware and sensitive you become of the hardships others might be facing hidden behind forced smiles.
Sadly not everyone is able to handle or overcome hurdles they are presented with in their lives, by mental illness or by sheer circumstance.
Those of us that have been blessed with the strength and fortitude to overcome must remind ourselves daily that there are those that may need that one act of kindness, a strand of hope to face another day.
Hope can be a powerful thing but only for those who know it’s there. Some need a helping hand to see it, find it and grasp it.
Hope... I pray I never lose sight of it and if I should that there will be someone like you with a kindness of heart impossible to ignore to pluck me from the shadows.
©
Sep 4, 2019
Sep 4, 2019 at 10:20 AM UTC
This world will throw road blocks in your path
Disguised as people.
People masked with love and honesty
Men and Women adorned with fair hair and a sparkling smile.
This world will throw boulders into your path
Marking you with kisses and scars
Swaying you to stray from your goals
Asking you to give up your morals.
This world will send storms into your path
To push you back
And off the road
To hold you down.
Though through all of this,
We continue to walk
To run
Onwards.
Away from their grasping hands
And through the pelting rain and hounding thunder.
Toward the horizon shining with the ever-present idea of hope.
-ALC April 8, 2019
Apr 8, 2019
Apr 8, 2019 at 1:47 PM UTC
What keeps you going?
It is the promise that distant future gave?
Is it the dream that you cradled from the start?
Is it those responsibilities that keeps you pushing?
Or is it that promise you made to yourself?
Whatever fuels you, you have to go on...
Hurdles can divert you, but can never derail you
It only makes the journey fun..
Quitting is not for you!
That pedestal of immortality is yours for the taking...
You have to instill despair in the heart of those haters...
You my friend, have to go on..
You owe it to yourself!
Own your destiny!!!
Heck is there a destiny??
It's all in your hands...
Mar 29, 2019
Mar 29, 2019 at 6:04 AM UTC
It’s not the mountains you climb that will matter in the end.
It’s not the heights you reach that will matter in the end.
It’s not the hurdles you cross that will matter in the end.
What’ll matter, my love, is the real happiness within and around you.
Dec 30, 2018
Dec 30, 2018 at 3:58 PM UTC
By the stairs side
Stands
A tall stranger taking coats
White bags and light hats for that
Easy fumed air
Hanging
Beside the wide-eyed picture
Framing the dark horses
Running
Trampling with laughter over the growing lawn.
A grey-shaded blooming shudder
Covering over the other,
Catches the light,
Hats seated,
cover over the other
Entrancing over the etched dancers lined against the walls.
Mountains that grew over the ancient
fire, could still be moved.
Behold, the sky's desire.
Nov 6, 2018
Nov 6, 2018 at 6:05 AM UTC
Life got me in a vice grip
Just a lil slip is alot of stress
But during hard times you just gotta press on.
Don't dawdle, dont step back
Accumulated struggles are just hurdles to pass over.
Some people live too fast
But to truly appreciate your life slow down.
Sometimes you got to step into a river and let it flow.
Dont control the current, try to be transparent.
-SS
Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 8:21 PM UTC
You went out of sight, you went out of mind,
You went out of sight, you went in my heart so blind.
The pain of your leave, I had revealed to none,
The pain of your leave, for you were my only one.
I hid the truths from myself, asked myself to comply,
I hid the truths from myself, but never confronted with a lie.
The mysteries I blocked, become one history,
and the history I spoke, was just another mystery.
You were all I had gained, you were all I had lost,
You were all I ever wanted, yet I compromised your cost.
And now the stars we had placed, twinkle every night,
They twinkle in this darkness, to show me your light.
I feel a bit strange, as if I have lost track of you,
I need your presence, I need it for those moments few.
For in your absence am I, just a grain of sand,
come save me from this oblivion, just lend me a hand.
You're everything I had gained, oh my memory,
Now stands your absence, in the way of my memory...
Now stands your absence in the way of my memory...
Jul 17, 2017
Jul 17, 2017 at 12:14 PM UTC
Suicide attempts drew attention
Tell the heros to save these maniacs
Let them spread words to calm down
Raise the tension blocked in the cages
Break the chains, cuffs, your eyes tempted
The beats dropped where they stole shows
Attracted fame and meaningless screams
How many failed attempts? Still jumping
Fly high till the oxygen lacks, then gasp hard
Limits do exist, doesn't warrant to stop
Here we are the same kind, breathe calmly
No hurry for your funeral, don't loose value
Don't give away hope, hope, that's fine
Put down the weapons, explode your mind
Speak every weaknesses yourself, beat 'em
May 19, 2017
May 19, 2017 at 4:55 AM UTC
*
flowing words that ripples through,
painted pain in the waters
waiting to be
understood.
*
Oct 30, 2016
Oct 30, 2016 at 8:14 AM UTC
When the ones you loved leave you alone,
When dreams are shattered and in pieces you are broke
When days are dark and nights never end,
When a foe you find in every other friend;
In worst of times, there's a hope that lasts..
Keep faith in God, this too shall pass!
When critics are pulling you down in the pit,
When your goal is blurred and you feel you should quit;
When you lose the grip of the rope you held,
and success may seem impossible to spell,
Look for the future, what's past is past..
Don't worry for today, this too shall pass!!
Mar 21, 2015
Mar 21, 2015 at 6:59 AM UTC
Sequestered stream flows tranquil
It’s journey from an unknown origin
Traveling through varied landscapes
Carrying stories from lands afar
Listen to faint murmur with keen ears
Narrates the stories from its chronicle
You, an unknown traveler, alone
Waiting by its side to drink from the stream
To quench the thirst that’s within
The contradictions and distractions
Casualties of the unrelenting world
Finally, your steps have led to this stream
It flows, in spite of the challenges
Cuts through every hurdle with resolve
The messenger carries stories and life
Breathing life with its tranquil presence
Drink from the stream, replenish your resolve
Think not of the hurdles and distractions
You are to flow through this life
Carrying the anecdotes and memories
Be like the stream, and rejuvenate every life
Mar 17, 2015
Mar 17, 2015 at 12:20 AM UTC
Life gives you a whirlwind spin
Tumbling here and there
And then wrung, almost dry
Then sun dries out the rest
Left hanging on the line
Dec 28, 2014
Dec 28, 2014 at 1:16 PM UTC
Cut through the imaginary chains
Get a grip on the life’s reins
The journey maybe tough
Diamonds are polished by the rough
Journeying through the dark
Frictions may cause temporary spark
Running frantically across difficult territory
The pain and agony is just transitory
Life is there to celebrate
When you are confident and don’t speculate
Dec 14, 2014
Dec 14, 2014 at 8:40 AM UTC