A poem about my new year's resolution to step out from the shadows and write what I love.

Speaking in earnestI search for a truthThis world I resideSeeking the proof To validate lifeHard to imagineDivisiveness fluent The error of passion My hearts skips a beatMy breath becomes shallowWith thoughts of my childrenEngulfed in this shadow What will becomeOf the ground they will walkThe steps that they takeThis violence of cause I can only ...

Here at the podium strength of my life Time to now speak Settle for this Momentum is mine I pray for the weak Leave hope in the past Eternal I wish With death now surrounding every small step every last word every last breath Here at the podium I speak my last peace Pay homage ...

Succumb to nature Fallen wish Failure Mounting I Must Dismiss Negative thoughts Come in troves Death among me Run From Those Mental motions Now I pass Crystal ball In Crystal Glass I seek in you A promised wish No more struggle Hope Is Missed Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay

Anger incessant fueled by misfortune Distortion of truth my only way forward This karma surrounding exempt of forgiveness There must be a lesson surely I’m missing I contemplate death yet that would decide The end of my search the loss of this sign Can only now hope that this shall not pass Down to my ...

Sometimes for you to grow, you must change the way you live your life. Each and every day, I inspire to do better with my life and how I accomplish my dreams. I try and set realistic goals in my life to try and keep my focus on my dreams. Sometimes for you to grow, ...

40 years is almost 15,000 days on this Earth? Most people don’t adapt well to change. I, however, have always excelled here. That is until recently. I am now finding out that my whole life, all those days, I was suffering from a mental health issue. My doctors like to refer to me as one ...

I’ve been stuck in this void, A deep void that sends me into madness, I’ve been kept silent, Silent like the deep night sky, I’ve been afraid all my life, Afraid that I might do something wrong, I’ve been stuck my whole life…

Unbelievably, in this day and age, there is a small pocket of people who still believe that the Earth is flat. When my son mentioned this to me on the way to school one day, I thought he was joking. Why would any reasonable, sane, person with a modicum of common sense seriously believe our ...

The pendulum swings- delicate life. When goodness usurps, both blades of the knife. Nostalgia-when happiness, seeming so clear yet, soon the non wounded slashes appear. While riding crescendo, baritone lie in wait. Upon its arrival, the Earth trembles great. Terrible fortune, only could be yet, hours before, the world at your knees. How does one ...