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Jun 2020 · 210
Fears of A Little Boy
Willard Wells Jun 2020
When I was about 8, living in St. Louis in a 4 family brownstone, I was sent to stay with Mom and Dad Ellis in Salem. One day some boys suggested we go down to the river which of course sounded like a fine idea. As we were walking along the river bank, we started being shot at by some other boys with BB guns. We ran in and next to the river to escape. Once I got back to the house I told mom Ellis what happened. It was at this point when she asked about my new shoes that I was wearing that were extremely wet. Busted. A few days later I was being put on the bus back to St. Louis when mom Ellis handed me an envelope to give my mother once I arrived home. Exiting the bus, my mother was waiting. I started crying and telling her I was sorry, as I again told the story of the wet shoes. I wanted to tell her before she read about it from mom Ellis. So much for honesty. Nothing in the letter about me, just an update on dad Ellis's health. Fears of a little boy.
Jan 2020 · 95
Lost Child
Willard Wells Jan 2020
Our children may falter in the journey of life,
Yet, there will always be hope,
Along with a light,
As we await their return.
Oct 2019 · 320
Pathway
Willard Wells Oct 2019
Waking to the light
Darkness follows near
Reach out to the light
Oct 2019 · 409
NOT MY FRIEND
Willard Wells Oct 2019
Darkness takes many forms,
Taking you to places so unknown.
Sometimes it’s hard to return,
As the darkness overtakes the mind.
The body follows closes behind,
Until there is no return.
The End.
Oct 2019 · 150
Cluster
Willard Wells Oct 2019
The pain controlled, yet my mind clouded.
Relief has its payment, for an active mind.
Slowed by the solutions, yet focused,
An odd clearness from behind the fog.

Craving sleep, yet not needed, or possible,
With the active mind of a crazed man.
So here I sit with my eyes on paper,
Looking for words to write to busy the mind.

Yet relieved the pain has lifted,
Hoping it’s the end, rather than just a break from the pain.
It comes, then goes for hours or days, sometimes weeks,
With little warning, just the pain.

In the end, even no pain,
The lingering numbness, from the drug,
Leaving the mind, clear within the fog, time passing by,
Wishing for sleep, that will not come.
Journey in the middle of the night as a ride the wave of the pain in my head. No need for pity as it is my life, the topic of conversations
Oct 2019 · 538
Ginger (RIP)
Willard Wells Oct 2019
hear the drumbeat now

jazz, blues, rock and far beyond

ginger baker rocks
Sep 2019 · 189
Waking In Shadows
Willard Wells Sep 2019
Moving in the shadows
Searching for space
A place to lay my head
Perhaps a piece of bread.

new days come
Searching again for space
That I may lay my head
Perhaps a cup of coffee.

Night falls again as the day come to its end,
Looking close as my eyes go shut
So less fears as I awaken
In another homeless place.
Sep 2019 · 162
DESPAIR
Willard Wells Sep 2019
The depth of my mind grows dark
But ideas that create words come forth.
This tells me,
The time to write has arrived.
The pains of anguish
As my mind runs.
Looking for a comfortable space
To chill, To hide,
Waiting for this nightmare to pass
Sep 2019 · 132
FATE
Willard Wells Sep 2019
Looking at changes
that approach in my journey,
I find in me an emptiness.

Answers I find, I know hold truth,
But my mind will not accept,
Fate as it will always win.
Aug 2019 · 195
Life's Crossing
Willard Wells Aug 2019
My life, when viewed,
Like crossing an expansive desert,
watching the sand, under my feet.

Looking back,
my foot prints have dissolved
into bits of nothingness.

Looking ahead,
there is no path,
to guide me.

Looking down, my imprint in the sand,
This moment is all I really have,
As we all do.

So savor the moment where you stand.
Choose your path wisely.
Aug 2019 · 132
Regrets
Willard Wells Aug 2019
Regrets, I say, I have none, but what is regret. I say the past is gone and the future has yet to happen, so we only have this moment. Then reflecting back, thinking I could have done that better. Is this just a thought or is it a regret?

Regrets would make me want to change something of the past, but how will that effect my future. A moment of regret, then a change of path, then what of now, would it still be as it is. I am happy where I am, so a change would possibly change that.

So I will dream, then reminisce of the past, but savor with great pleasure the place I have come at this point in my journey.
Jan 2019 · 168
A Christmas Wish For Me
Willard Wells Jan 2019
A Christmas text
the only choice
to a long lost voice.

Loving her so dear,
a child so missed,
I try to send a Christmas wish.

As sweet words inked
the message link,
I felt proud to share my love of her.

About three lines were on the text
just as I write this down
and I burst in tears,
memories rushing back.

I hope she hears
or reads my words,
and knows my love.

I can take anything
she may bring to me,
cause any pain I feel,
is to not see her.
Jul 2018 · 474
The Gathering
Willard Wells Jul 2018
I have awoken at an early hour, Early morning or earlier than I want, but the gathering has begun. It appears in clusters as they say, as the pain gently taps, almost an absent thought, but if not aware, taking over all focus or any thoughts beyond the pain. I see the dark on the other side of the blade as I look over the edge of the crevasse trying not to go too far into the depth of my pain. It has been many years with a dance of doctors, drugs, along with a little experimentation along the way. A form of self-imposed self-medication. Avoiding the dark on of that side is to avoid the doctor's opiates advise.
Apr 2018 · 239
Absent Love
Willard Wells Apr 2018
May the teardrops
on your pillow
turn to Stardust,
carrying you
to your love,
in your dreams.
Jul 2017 · 367
Changing Times
Willard Wells Jul 2017
In years past, young boys became men early. Women were quiet, demur in their outward image.

Today, watching the actions of so many young men, they seem to have trouble developing into grown men, continuing in their youthful ways. Women have taken on a more commanding roll. Slowly gathering the wealth of the world from the young men who failed to become men. Hopefully in the long term, women will also help bring peace to the world.
Jun 2017 · 361
Life's Moments
Willard Wells Jun 2017
Savor each moment, not because it may be your last, but because it may be the greatest moment in your life.
Jun 2017 · 438
Images
Willard Wells Jun 2017
Life is never what
one imagines,
it is a story
unfolding by the moment.
May 2017 · 640
Passion
Willard Wells May 2017
Tread softly as you venture into the dark mist of love and lust.
Searching out that moment of heat that brings passion.
May 2017 · 298
Dungeon
Willard Wells May 2017
The darkness that appears as a
dungeon in my mind,
It’s really just the hallways,
where the demons freely roam.

Looking to disturb a perfectly good day.
But as is always the case,
They must play alone,
Since they bore me with their dark world.
May 2017 · 466
Your Life
Willard Wells May 2017
We seem to keep looking for something better in life. More money, a bigger house or a nicer car. Looking at the happiness in my life, I can have no regrets or the happiness I feel may not have been achieved. Take time to reflect on what you have. Do you really need more? When you leave this earthly place, you're taking nothing of physical substance with you. You leave as you came in, with nothing. So maybe you do have all you really need to live the rest of your life? Peace be with you this day.
May 2017 · 290
Your Life
Willard Wells May 2017
We seem to keep looking for something better in life. More money, a bigger house or a nicer car. Looking at the happiness in my life, I can have no regrets or the happiness I feel may not have been achieved. Take time to reflect on what you have. Do you really need more? When you leave this earthly place, you're taking nothing of physical substance with you. You leave as you came in, with nothing. So maybe you do have all you really need to live the rest of your life? Peace be with you this day.
May 2017 · 283
Your Life
Willard Wells May 2017
We seem to keep looking for something better in life. More money, a bigger house or a nicer car. Looking at the happiness in my life, I can have no regrets or the happiness I feel may not have been achieved. Take time to reflect on what you have. Do you really need more? When you leave this earthly place, you're taking nothing of physical substance with you. You leave as you came in, with nothing. So maybe you do have all you really need to live the rest of your life? Peace be with you this day.
May 2017 · 271
Happiness
Willard Wells May 2017
Thoughts of what we really need to find happiness.

Never allow your expectations to get in the way of your happiness. Happiness is fulfillment.
Mar 2017 · 487
A Moment in Thought
Willard Wells Mar 2017
For unknown real reasons, I find myself speaking of journeys. The term transitioning seems to be slipping into my vocabulary.

I read of finding enlightenment, but where is it found. Really, I never knew I had anything like enlightenment that was missing. Happiness seems to be what I want to add to life, whether my life or that of another. Life, meaning, another human, which is not a color, culture, political, religious or anything, just a human as in all Gods children.

So, is my happiness, my enlightenment? If not, it is of little matter to me, since my joy and happiness is at a level that I do not find the need to do more than continue in my journey and transition.

Peace be to you all and great blessing in your journey of life.
Willard Wells Mar 2017
This is not a political message and yet I have approved it.

I was back reading all the humor in the news, you know politics. I was just wondering how many people suddenly reflected on someone that they personally avoided because of their radical thoughts, then suddenly they see them agreeing. Is this a bonding moment or do we rethink what we think is the correct position on the issue?


I will revisit this in a few days and see if after some sleep and rest, if the landscape improves in any direction. Beginning to feel like when I lived in Alaska but for a different reason.


There I needed a break from isolation and cold, well I guess it is closer to the same, than I thought. Peace be with you all as I return to the planet from which I came.
Feb 2017 · 358
Hanging on the Edge
Willard Wells Feb 2017
Sitting on the edge of reality in my altered state,
A place referred by me as near a Zombie like world.
Not functioning in a normal way,
But possibly leaning too far off the Edge of the blade,
keeping the true light of the reality of life in sight.
Feb 2017 · 453
Emptiness
Willard Wells Feb 2017
Time fly’s by as the year’s pass.
Looking to find what I have missed,
in this, life’s journey.
Looking back at my beginning.
Where it all began for me as a child.

Looking for friends from playgrounds.
Acquaintances of the past, that I have missed.
In a town, I once knew, to be my home.
Vision of my youth
As shadows of time appear.

Coming back, searching now within
the cobwebs of my mind.
I find It was just another place,
A time, that I passed through.
There is nothing there for me at this time,

But of dreams long passed.
Feb 2017 · 242
Flashes
Willard Wells Feb 2017
In life, others are only seen to be players within neurons that pass by my receptors, providing me with entertainment, sadness, laughter and often great joy.
Jan 2017 · 310
Horizon
Willard Wells Jan 2017
Finding ourselves suffering in pain of a lost love,
consider it a life experience, that will help you grow.
For even when you find what you think you are searching for in love,
you will still be searching for the next experience.
No love will solve your problems in life completely.
There is forever, a horizon in life.
Jan 2017 · 357
People of the Night
Willard Wells Jan 2017
Laying in the dark.
Thoughts racing down
the hallways of my mind.

Looking for sleep
to end this day.
attempting to escape the noise.

The darkness before my eyes,
gives me pause.
Realizing I am not alone.

But one of the many,
People of the night.
Jan 2017 · 460
Beat of My Heart
Willard Wells Jan 2017
First seeing her vision made my heart skip a beat.
In awe of the beauty before my eyes.
Years have passed but my heart still skips a beat,
Holding her close makes my life complete.
Jan 2017 · 884
New Beginning
Willard Wells Jan 2017
Yippie Ki Yay,

We ride the wave
into a new year of adventures,
happiness with friends.

Let the fun adventure begin
with the midway of rides,
flashing lights,

With children at play
in the adventure
we call life.
Jan 2017 · 271
Resolution
Willard Wells Jan 2017
Awakening to sunrise
on the dawning of the New Year.
opportunities limited,
only by your own imagination.
Dec 2016 · 326
Celebration of Birth
Willard Wells Dec 2016
The time of year to praise our Lord.
Give thanks for the gift.
We celebrate this time of year,
the birth of our savior Jesus, Apostle of God.
Dec 2016 · 270
Never Question Love
Willard Wells Dec 2016
Love is always real..............................until it's not.
Dec 2016 · 412
Loving Place
Willard Wells Dec 2016
My head laying on her heaving breast.
The sound of her heart beating softly.
Arms embracing, holding her close.
Peacefulness is found in this warm, loving place.
Nov 2016 · 600
Relativity of Love
Willard Wells Nov 2016
The more time
we are together,
the longer our time apart.

The more moments
I share with you,
the greater the beauty in my life.

I miss you more
with every extra
moment of your life you share.
Oct 2016 · 722
Life, A Journey
Willard Wells Oct 2016
Choices in life are often limited,
the wise choice is not always the profitable
or quick profit, but the pain
in your body and stress in your life,

Is directly connected to these choices.

Is it better to slowly gain your goals,
being there to enjoy the fruits of your labor,
or push so hard that others enjoy your labors,
as they lay you to rest?

The choices we make today
have a direct bearing on our future.
That future can be tomorrow or
10 years from now.

Each day we have to make
a decision of where we are going,
where we want to be.
Life is a journey. Peace be with you.

May you choose your path wisely.
Oct 2016 · 550
Seasonal Peace
Willard Wells Oct 2016
I feel the shadow
moving slowly across
the view of life
as the season's change.

The transition of light
limited by the shortness
of the day bringing
me to a yearly change.

Drawing me to a darker place
within the depths
of my mind.
I find comfort within.

Slowly withdrawing
from the world
I know,
finding comfort in solitude.
Oct 2016 · 535
Shadow Passing
Willard Wells Oct 2016
Can you dry away the tears.
They are not planned,
But just appear.

A thought of the past,
Memory so vivid,
Suddenly emotions come forth.

Standing on a street corner,
Taking in the sites;
A shadow seems to cross your path.

Orifice sensations light you up.
Memories again renew your past.
You search around with your eyes.

Hoping to match senses again,
With memory of the past.
To feel that rush you had that did not last.

As you look left,
And then to the right, up ahead.
There's nothing in-sight.

But the memory is there though lost.
And will lay in wait in the dark.
So your heart can race again.

When again the shadow passes.
Oct 2016 · 263
Edge of Reality
Willard Wells Oct 2016
Sitting on the outskirts of sanity
but still within view of life
evaluating the days that pass,
as life goes by on the edge of reality
Sep 2016 · 589
Lunar Time
Willard Wells Sep 2016
Lunar times, seasons pass,
my mind seems lost in a fog of time,
with the pull of the moon on my mind,
leaves me searching for I know not what,
like I have found a black hole within my mind.
Sep 2016 · 307
Time of Love
Willard Wells Sep 2016
Everything seems to have an expiration date.
Love is no exception.

You see the change as the date gets close,
so no reason for a surprise.

Blame can be placed on everyone,
but in reality.

The time of love has expired.
Sep 2016 · 540
Sweet Dreams
Willard Wells Sep 2016
Stars shine as night falls
the sandman comes
bringing sleep with sweet dreams
Sep 2016 · 272
True Love
Willard Wells Sep 2016
Knowing the true feeling of love,
is when you hold each other close.
feeling the love that is the safe
space you felt as a baby,
held against your mother's heaving breast.
Aug 2016 · 235
Shooting Star
Willard Wells Aug 2016
showering lights flash
across the night sky making
wishes on each one
hoping I will find the one
that grants my only true wish
you in my life forever
Aug 2016 · 369
Daily Blood
Willard Wells Aug 2016
another day gone
blood soaking into the ground
there's reason for death
just another useless life
snatched away just to appease
the daily news body count.
Aug 2016 · 763
Filipino Fisherman
Willard Wells Aug 2016
the water, blue-green,
as it recedes from the shore.
thin clouds overhead,
fishing boat now setting sail,
ready for the day ahead,
family hungry again
Aug 2016 · 260
Perceived Beauty
Willard Wells Aug 2016
The sea recedes for a few hours.
Local families pick rocks washed close to shallow shores.
Cleaning their bounty before filling 50-kilo bags,
to sell for food to fill their stomachs this day.

Tomorrow is another day by the beautiful seashore.
Poverty gives beauty a different view.
Aug 2016 · 457
Another Day of Hunger
Willard Wells Aug 2016
Sun rising slowly
over the Philippine sea.
Many hungry mouths to feed.

Only 10 pesos for food this day.
Noodles or rice to share if lucky,
will be the only food.

Smiles all around
as a meal is shared.
We will not go to bed hungry this night.
" Many Philippine friends going without food. "
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