Poetry and Thoughts
Everybody’s truth is different
Yet, not invalid
Only different
Perception is truth
Truth is subjective
My view may be different than yours
I’m looking at what you’re looking at from a different angle
I have to move to see your angle
But every angle has the truth
Glimpses of others
Reflected on and off me
I move silently with the wind
Knowing who I am
I stand strong
I hope the mirror will help you see
Only you
As the mirror helps me see only me
Next time you think you need to hide your light to make someone else feel better-
Remember, your difference… however unusual, “not normal,” and not like anyone else is… may just be what the world really needs right now.
It may be that you are the person who makes all the difference to someone else. You could be their lifeline- just by being an example, just by being you.
I spent years hiding my light…to fit in, to be liked, and accepted.
I knew I was always different- I was ashamed of that.
Never belonging. Never fitting in the cliques- Work cliques, school cliques, all cliques! I was never a product of someone else’s ideals, but I felt compassion, but hiding my light helped no one.
I tried to be invisible. I was always hiding my light to be accepted- but I still encountered haters. By hiding my light, I won’t make it any easier on the people who hate me. The only way they will shine is by seeing themselves and looking in the mirror-not by me hiding who I am or diminishing my own light.
I know they only hated me because they weren’t willing to look at themselves.
I decided to shine in spite of everyone else.
We all have crosses to bear- just because I don’t discuss mine- doesn’t mean it’s not there. Or, the crosses don’t exist for me.
I need to accept the fact that I have to shine-shine bright- in spite of everyone else.
I’ve traveled far and long
Looking for answers through former footprints
Maybe, just my own
Yet I still turn around to look for you.
I feel you, but I don’t see you
Strange… how that works
I would have sworn you were with me.
Sometimes time stands still
It remains imprinted in our memories
Stagnant of motion yet still moving the core of our being
Why are these times here more than others?
Why do I hold onto the image over all other times?
Like a theme, I need to analyze
A secret hidden in a snapshot
Dare I look for what time wants me to take out of the image?
I keep seeing it over and over…
Is there something I’m overlooking?
The photo sticks to my soul
Will I always remember
Or, will it fade away slowly
Just like time
Just like you
Just like me
Anger…
Why are you here with me today?
Thought I let you go
Turned my back from you
And walked away
Still
Remnants of you follow me
People I see mirror your cause
No light in sight
Searching in this dark cloud that offers no outlook
You’re a deviation from clarity and hope
You drain my energy with a useless quest
For truth over lies
A brick wall that never ends- never gives
Now, I feel I need to face you head on
Release me from your grip that binds my heart
Entangled traps of despair and constant fog
Release me from your misunderstandings
The smoke screen that hides every essence of you
Release me from this road I never wanted to travel
Mirror me now
Turn around
Walk a way- no, run
Walk tall
Even though my heart sinks
With thoughts of you
I keep above it all
Keep looking forward
Don’t let the dream die
It has a life of its own…anyway
Despite its foes
People will try to pull you down
Don’t let them
Don’t fade in the shadows…
Where they want you to disappear
Stay in the light
Surround yourself with light
You will see a new day
A step above everything else
Everyone now
Fades shorter, smaller…drifts
Stand tall
In spite of yesterday’s presence
Today, I walk with you
Lifting you higher
To a new day
Above the past
I’m walking beside you
I’m here
You look harmless
When I see you
Maybe even helpful
But what you project is not what’s inside
The effects of you last and linger way too long
It eats away to the core of my being!
Poison Ivy, I thought you were honest
I believed the lies you told me
I wanted to believe that there was something inside that was good
I wanted to believe that you had good intentions towards me
Of course that was never true!
I see I need to stay away!
You irritate me for weeks on end
You cut through my skin with no mercy
No feeling- no reason -no purpose!
You spread your envy and hate to so many parts of me
You have nothing to do
No purpose but to spread your venom to the next innocent passerby
To anyone who dares to get close to you!
Poison Ivy, I was a fool to come near you
Please release me-
Finally let me go!
I hope I never see the likes of you again!
I don’t even wish you another prey
I hope that your malice just comes back to you
I’m so grateful for you
Some force was looking out for me when I first saw you
In a world I would never fit in-
You know how it feels to be left out in the cold
No one to take you in
With the exception of one who sees beyond the ordinary
The superficial…
In a world where only the fake is allowed
You showed me there’s more
You showed me…myself
Then rain seems to follow me
Yet no one else it seems
Everywhere else around me the sun shines
But, it’s pouring here above me
Pouring with emotion
My heart sinks in what it knows has been kept from me-
Even though it’s raining above me now, I won’t be dampened
I will bloom and triumph over every negativity
My light will shine beyond what you’ve ever imagined
