trembling but roaring
Showing posts with label humanity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humanity. Show all posts

31.8.16

we won't give up on hope, on life

it's so easy to let the weight on our shoulders weigh down our hope,
to let the shadows blow out the lights in our eyes;
it's faster to fade into dark hollow islands
than to stay out in the sunshine
where the air is warm, breeze - gentle, cool -
and hands held up high together;
staying together is hard, filling lungs with air, even harder,
but i want you to know a little secret -
we're not going to give up on hope.
we won't allow that to happen -
ever;
hope will win this battle.
we just have to remain conscious to celebrate with eyes wide open
and hearts deep screaming joy.
stay with us. stay with me.
don't give up this fight.

31.7.16

new / purpose / home

there's nothing new under
the sun
these words have been
written before
these feelings have been felt
before
maybe, just in different
order.
any / either way, i was sitting out at the
edge of the
earth today
staring into oblivion
when i was asked the questions,
who are you, why are you here,
and i didn't know how to answer them
so i jumped off the pier, into the swirling
waters,
the wind whipping my salty hair,
ripping my heart in two;
the wind howled, loud and muffled,
bass shaking bones, i tumbled and trembled.

it's hard facing myself in the mirror, when i'm unsure
of purpose, what my worth is,
i try to measure myself next to the ocean,
if only i could be more like her.
strong and calm and divisive and healing,
never ending.
i told her i admired her
she blushed deep green hues,
retreated to the end of the world
and rushed back with gifts of quiet chaos and
overwhelming peace -
she's captivating like that.

if you're ever confused, go to the coastline,
sink your hands in the sand, like a dying man,
and listen to the sound of God's heart surging toward you;
feel His breath - inhale exhale - dancing on your skin, shaking the earth.
look out into a fraction of His magnitude -
it's in the unknown, i find home.









8.10.15

growing up / october again / burial


growing up is a strange event
when all of a sudden the monsters
under your bed become your
friends
and your friends become those
withering skeletons you dry clean
in your closet the ones covered
in blood stains and haunting
memories
and i don't know if this is
just a tall tale or if it's real
life
because sometimes i could
swear i heard a voice i used
to play with coming
from my favorite
dress that's
hanging
up in
my closet or
maybe it's just the wind
howling around the headstones
that mark where i laid to rest
all of the lives i have lived
in the past
and look now it's october again
october signifying another self
lived and lost another life to lay down again
the burial is fast approaching
i will gently undress this year
from my frame and
lay it in the coffin
in the soft earth alongside the
others
and work on watering this new
life into fruition
i pray it will take me somewhere i've
never been before
i really want to go somewhere new
before this time rolls around next year
when the leaves start to turn red and die again
when campfires and crisper weather make more appearances again
i will slide this life off and begin again
begin again again again again again
again
growing up is a strange event