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Emelia Ruth Jun 2013
The land flooded,
the sky was dark and wet.
I had reached the bottom of my jar
and there was no glory.
It was all drained away and swallowed up by careless mouths.

A pool had formed
in the flooded land
and in it sat two boys;
young like adolescences
yet humble and mature with knowledge.

I felt like I should know them,
but their faces were masked by their black hoodies.
And their voices matched everyone's
and they matched no one's.

One beckoned me to swim to them.
They were familiar
in a welcoming stranger way.
So I submerged into the comforting warm water,
and I slowly swam next to the boy.

The one who beckoned asked me,
"What is your story?"
and
just as easily as unzipping a jacket,
I spilled out my worries
he soaked up my loneliness and aches,
and I found myself
curled up in his arms.

He took my empty jar
and filled it with a glowing light.
The land surrounding
was still cold and dark
but the light inside was the one thing that brought me
warmth and renewal
and undying hope and joy.

He was the holy man.
Who welcomes everyone
and forgives everyone.
He is equal.
He is greater.
He is the one who sat in the flooded land
and waited for me
so that he could give me
a wholesome warmth
that I've never felt until now.
Mouth Piece Dec 2013
Insecurity and emotions soaked the adolescences of youthful decisions. A quest marked by consequences of such actions that needed to be filled….I’m ready for Love!!!….then gone…..More of the same prescription same action, 4 years and 20 tries…I’m ready for love!!!….then torment….can’t sustain in debauchery even if my heart was a seamless victim…2years..…CHANGE…..I knew better from bruises then to clutch to many women or bottle instead Bible…5years….I’m strong but my bones are scared.….I’m ready for love!!!…..then gone…..why why? Hmm darkness revealed in hind light sip that I was then drinking a more deadly brew......Selfish Pride……2years….CHANGE……I’m ready for love!!….Then nothing……Selfish Pride is hard to purge it goes low in heart especially in maturation but light seeks it till it leaves it’s post of guarding fear which was the nemesis all along….now I face it……”perfect Love casts out all fear” hmmm……Love I’m not ready yet!!!…..to be continued…………Thank you Jesus
Mouth Piece Feb 2014
I’ve been alive for 30 years but on sleep alone I’ve slept a decade. Life is a blink in the diapers of a toddler to the identity crisis of adolescences . In this short time I can remember a fraction of what I have experienced. Using biased emotions I make my decisions for today based on the distorted interpretations of those struggles. “I am my remembering self, and the experienced self but who does the living, is a stranger to me”. We are smoke in glass to our true reflections.
Why can’t we change others? Because we barely know ourselves……….an adult is a mathematical word in our culture, a magical number of ascension from youth. How often do we become sophisticated toddlers and adolescences? We acquire degrees, accomplish, travel and get bigger toys but all the while having hearts that wear pampers and zits. Then we die before we realize….. Our true potentials. We can never totally know Who We Are within the flesh of a human mind that is limited to such short time. But truth be told our memories alone will not bring you anywhere closer to understanding. At best you repeat a more successful childhood that never exactly feels fulfilling . Do you feel a void? “For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”
There is Someone who knows you fully and wants to help you break this cycle. He wishes to Eclipse your memory from the youth of yesterday to the thoughts of Eternity. We all need each other. No more youthful competition! Only union within a family to a Father that wishes to show us all what we all crave to know…….. Who we truly are………………...FLY……………………………………..Jesus
Pluck Aug 2015
It heavily burdens my heart when I see people neglect and disrespect their parents.
Do you know the pain you'd feel if you were forced to live without them? No? Let me share it.
In a hospital that feels more Siberian than the rest, you feel your chest flood with boiling fluid & it feels like the entire world is sitting on your shoulders.
A pain you are coerced to endure, at the time of introduction the idea of it eventually passing seems impossible & you begin to wish your life was over.
That's pain because I'm absolutely petrified of death, I have panic attacks of my eyes closing never to gaze at daylight another day.
At this moment all fear vacates your core because you realize there is no greater threat in this realm greater than losing a parent this way.
Parent, Parent, I stress parent because this is someone that didn't just conceive you but raised you, structured your essence and identity with love poured into hard labor.
So when you're yelling at your mom for some foolish petty thing, earthly things in life that don't even matter, imagine staring at her with pain thriving in her soul and knowing there's not a thing you can do to save her.
Imagine having siblings, Seven older than you, all criminals and the worse of badly influenced adolescences. Imagine them all dropping out, nobody older than you graduates high school.
Imagine looking up to this at the age 13 & 14 selling drugs, carrying pistols and walking over people, inviting violence because to you this is what the ones you looked up to made seem cool.
Imagine how disappointed a God fearing father is of his sons, that they aren't off to colleges to glorify his name & bring joy and pride to his heart.
& imagine all of your siblings on the streets poor or in the confinements of jail, and you yourself gang affiliated when it's time for his soul to part.
Imagine staring into their eyes and regretting every argument, every disrespectful phrase, & you would give all these things up you thought you wanted just for them to have one more day.
Imagine your savior, your angel laying decaying and they feel no pain toward their own existence but the only thing that troubles them is will their babies be okay?
Imagine God stepping into your life, placing you in a better environment, purifying your heart, you become kind, loving, respectful, intelligent, everything your dad dreamed of, you bust your *** to be it.
Imagine being the first of his kids to graduate, imagine signing a division 1 scholarship, imagine being the first in the family ever to go to college & becoming an
All-American and your biggest supporter, biggest fan, the person that gave you the life you live isn't even there to ******* see it!
If all this isn't enough pain for you to realize how much you should cherish your parents, how you should appreciate any day spent with them over some meaningless party, how disrespect should never be catapulted in their direction, & how if it is you should immediately apologize.
You'll soon wake up and look at life different & cherish every single person you care about, cause on top of the pain you're experiencing at the loss of a parent, your pain will be oh so amplified when you have to hold the other parent for months and years whipping tears from their eyes.

"Losing a Parent" -Dash Pinder
Tous imberbes alors, sur les vieux bancs de chêne
Plus polis et luisants que des anneaux de chaîne,
Que, jour à jour, la peau des hommes a fourbis,
Nous traînions tristement nos ennuis, accroupis
Et voûtés sous le ciel carré des solitudes,
Où l'enfant boit, dix ans, l'âpre lait des études.
C'était dans ce vieux temps, mémorable et marquant,
Où forcés d'élargir le classique carcan,
Les professeurs, encor rebelles à vos rimes,
Succombaient sous l'effort de nos folles escrimes
Et laissaient l'écolier, triomphant et mutin,
Faire à l'aise hurler Triboulet en latin. -
Qui de nous en ces temps d'adolescences pâles,
N'a connu la torpeur des fatigues claustrales,
- L'oeil perdu dans l'azur morne d'un ciel d'été,
Ou l'éblouissement de la neige, - guetté,
L'oreille avide et droite, - et bu, comme une meute,
L'écho lointain d'un livre, ou le cri d'une émeute ?

C'était surtout l'été, quand les plombs se fondaient,
Que ces grands murs noircis en tristesse abondaient,
Lorsque la canicule ou le fumeux automne
Irradiait les cieux de son feu monotone,
Et faisait sommeiller, dans les sveltes donjons,
Les tiercelets criards, effroi des blancs pigeons ;
Saison de rêverie, où la Muse s'accroche
Pendant un jour entier au battant d'une cloche ;
Où la Mélancolie, à midi, quand tout dort,
Le menton dans la main, au fond du corridor, -
L'oeil plus noir et plus bleu que la Religieuse
Dont chacun sait l'histoire obscène et douloureuse,
- Traîne un pied alourdi de précoces ennuis,
Et son front moite encore des langueurs de ses nuits.
- Et puis venaient les soirs malsains, les nuits fiévreuses,
Qui rendent de leurs corps les filles amoureuses,
Et les font, aux miroirs, - stérile volupté, -
Contempler les fruits mûrs de leur nubilité, -
Les soirs italiens, de molle insouciance,
- Qui des plaisirs menteurs révèlent la science,
- Quand la sombre Vénus, du haut des balcons noirs,
Verse des flots de musc de ses frais encensoirs. -

Ce fut dans ce conflit de molles circonstances,
Mûri par vos sonnets, préparés par vos stances,
Qu'un soir, ayant flairé le livre et son esprit,
J'emportai sur mon coeur l'histoire d'Amaury.
Tout abîme mystique est à deux pas du doute. -
Le breuvage infiltré lentement, goutte à goutte,
En moi qui, dès quinze ans, vers le gouffre entraîné,
Déchiffrais couramment les soupirs de René,
Et que de l'inconnu la soif bizarre alterre,
- A travaillé le fond de la plus mince artère. -
J'en ai tout absorbé, les miasmes, les parfums,
Le doux chuchotement des souvenirs défunts,
Les longs enlacements des phrases symboliques,
- Chapelets murmurants de madrigaux mystiques ;
- Livre voluptueux, si jamais il en fut. -

Et depuis, soit au fond d'un asile touffu,
Soit que, sous les soleils des zones différentes,
L'éternel bercement des houles enivrantes,
Et l'aspect renaissant des horizons sans fin
Ramenassent ce coeur vers le songe divin, -
Soit dans les lourds loisirs d'un jour caniculaire,
Ou dans l'oisiveté frileuse de frimaire, -
Sous les flots du tabac qui masque le plafond,
J'ai partout feuilleté le mystère profond
De ce livre si cher aux âmes engourdies
Que leur destin marqua des mêmes maladies,
Et, devant le miroir, j'ai perfectionné
L'art cruel qu'un démon, en naissant, m'a donné,
- De la douleur pour faire une volupté vraie, -
D'ensanglanter un mal et de gratter sa plaie.

Poète, est-ce une injure ou bien un compliment ?
Car je suis vis à vis de vous comme un amant
En face du fantôme, au geste plein d'amorces,
Dont la main et dont l'oeil ont, pour pomper les forces,
Des charmes inconnus. - Tous les êtres aimés
Sont des vases de fiel qu'on boit, les yeux fermés,
Et le coeur transpercé, que la douleur allèche,
Expire chaque jour en bénissant sa flèche.
Ketaki May 2020
My train of thoughts take me down the memory rail...
Excitedly seated in the coach of nostalgia, looking through the memory window misted with teardrops...some happy some sad..
I salvage the miles and miles covered with laughter and sorrow.

At some stations of the past , the train halts for a bit long, as the heart lingers in the innocence of childhood..reminiscing the aroma of countryside..

The tunnels of teenage are often revisited, that carefree attitude,  just like a mountain so shrewd..

My train of thoughts take me down the memory rail..
Memory strikes such a scenic maze ..
Adolescences felt like a bird freed out of the cage.. flying high with a confident rage..

A lot of baggage collected on the way , travel light !! Is the only right way..
Enduring adulthood otherwise cannot be slayed ..

Jostled by reality, the train comes to a halt.
The mindful chatter again starts , as i come out of my dreamy frame....

No matter how many times i board this memory train...
it brings be back to the prudent stage.. where new memories are waiting to be made.

— The End —