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Opposition or Sympathy
Don't count the two.
You need to move forward in life.
Just mobility matters in life;
feelings are not significant.
From your experiences,
Not from the written books,
Or words spoken by others,
They are not your thoughts,
Or what you have faced.
8/1/2024
Is like a rose flower,
From bud to full bloom,
Life too opens to happiness and beauty,
And without the thorns,
Life would be complacent and without reason.
15/1/2024
It was only you,
My love at first sight.
My heart became a canvas,
Where I splashed colours of endurance,
And when at last you accepted me,
With your soft lips on mine,
Waiting for you was worth every single moment.
16/1/2024
In silence, fragmented pieces of you come together, making you whole.
We were married,
I found I only loved him,
I realised his heart was an enclosed space,
I had no place in it,
I had no desire to be a cushion,
For somebody else's wounds he carried.
28/12/2023
 Jan 2024 Karijinbba
Jamesb
Dark
 Jan 2024 Karijinbba
Jamesb
From the perspective
Of improvement I can see
That there was a lot of
Darkness in me
Or mayhap more an absence
Of light,

I am not  
Nor ever have been
A bad man,
But like many "not bad men"
I have done bad things
To people that I love,

And that does not
Sit easy with me,
But looking deep inside
I can see not so much
That I have changed
As regained my true self,

It is as if that bright pure
Core in me became,
Like the hull of a vessel
At sea
Encrusted with ****
And barnacles,

A lack of awareness of
Other's needs or hurts,
A selfishness and unworthiness
Of action and attitude,
Even towards my kin
And she that I adore,

These things encrusted
My good heart,
My core,
With unworthiness
That dimmed the light
That burns within me,

I am like a sailing ship,
Emptied of loose gear and
Run up on a beach,
Masts hauled down and hull
Heeled hard over,
To expose encrusted planks

To daylight,
Then the indignity
Of scŕaping awày that ****
And in front of one I love
To boot,
But I got my brightness back

And now, like
That sailing ship,
I am newly refloated,
Reprovisioned,
In all respects ready
For sea,

And I wait for
A destination,
And - God willing - a fellow
Vessel to sail with,
Preferably in close company,
Or otherwise

Alone
Working out, processing, the work I have done of late
 Jan 2024 Karijinbba
Jamesb
Moon
 Jan 2024 Karijinbba
Jamesb
Like the moon I have
A dark side,
Just as everybody does,
Even the most amazing
Alabaster lady,

But the most important
Aspect of the moon's
Dark side is not
The darkness but
The mystery,

The unknown unseen
Parts of us,
However my dark has been,
Remains indeed,
Illuminated by

Self knowledge,
A new found self respect,
Self awareness,
Aware of my great worth,
And the value that I bring,

And I finally love who I am,

Now to find the one
Who will admit
They love me too,
Entirely, wholly,
Truly
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