Don’t you understand sweetheart,
evil power begins and ends
with finite beings,
true power lies
in infinite love,
the kind
that
grows
over
time.
-L.D.

I'm gazing  up, and all I see is this brilliant star,
The 7th one, adorning the heavens skies; I just wish you could be here, next to me to see it,
past the dark hills that stopped you at times before this  and you speak to me and all I see is this overpass, where neither of us can meet, but those are finite things that can't stop love, for I want to touch your soul don't you see, embrace it, and tell it, everything is as it should be, there isn't much time is there and the daisies have lost their flame, the raging seas cry like the pain in our chests, the time is now, if we ever want to meet that lone star up there, the kind that sits in its own brilliance in peace and in love with its own light and nothing more than it.
-L.D.

Oh soul, oh life, oh breath! I turn to see your face, not plagued by night skies, not faithless!
we wish to fly free, taintless,
and did we not love and forgive,
over and over again,
For it was never about them,
but us,
wasn’t it?-L.D.

We are two wings on a bird,
But they told me my side wasn't as necessary; for me to be as worthy as a man, I had to value motherhood less. Like being feminine was some kind of flaw, like staying home to raise my kids was secondary in worth than a man who worked, they convinced us, didn't they? And it's not the man's fault that society did this, now both parents hassling and grinding to put bread on the table because his income now just doesn't make...and don't get me a wrong-a woman should have the right to choose but is it fair that after birth she has to get up to work so quick!? I never wanted to leave mines, still young and on milk, my milk dried because I wasn't home enough to nurse them, and it was all in the name of equality, but what equality is this when a woman can't get more leave of time to raise her kids? What equality is this when marriages fall apart because the bird has become lopsided! Children suffering because mom has to work, there isn't time for a hot plate, so grab take out on your way back, or maybe she's a super mom at her own cost, now her health has gone...and I've never seen a great man without a great mother behind him or woman by him, teaching him the values that made him who he was, motherhood was always the greatest job that ever was, being a woman was! So, why couldn't they just accept we are equal but different.
-L.D.

I cannot stay in the circumference,
so long as the goal post exists,
this luminescent light,
so pure,
it draws me in,
it's magnificence,
greater than all the suns held together,
and like the atoms in all things
that exist in perfect unison
and from its core,
it bursts forth love, mercy, and grace,
I race to reach it,
but how could I reach it
without becoming a dove first,
without shaking the dirt off these wings,
to fly a little higher
each
day
-L.D.

Somewhere between pain and pride,
there is a place in the heart
that chimes,
❤️forgive, everything will be alright.❤️
-L.D.

Who creates pain but us,
who fastens misery upon our necks but we, given to free will, secured in it and trusted
that we would do right from wrong,
and here we are, under depths of darkness,
so deep, like the depths of a dark sea
and perhaps there was a time
we arrogantly chose to be here,
believing we could pass this test called
life.
-L.D.