Stranger
12 Jul 2010 1 Comment
in Just a thought Tags: choices, Consumed, Path, Spirit, stranger, Strength, Understanding
I thought I knew you.
Now you are a stranger to me…but I’m not sorry.
The echoes are still there, remnants of the broken. The shell of the sunken ship, eaten away, reclaimed by nature, by changing tides. But the strong pieces remained, waiting to be salvaged, to see the sunlight once more.
You frightened me, fascinated me, bewildered me. How could such beauty and such darkness reside together for so long? How did the gypsy end up chained and still survive? How could you live by your heart when it was shattered beyond belief?
I still wonder, but I guess I’ll never really know. Because you don’t know.
Do you hold yourself responsible? Or me? Two sides of the same coin. Was it your choice to let the darkness take you? Or life’s?
What you were and what you wanted to be could not have been more different, but it was your blessing and your curse to be the poet. To feel it, feel it all. Magnified. Multiplied. Searing, pulsing, stabbing, numbing. Dreams, hopes, words, passion.
Two sides of the same coin. It was flipped. And now here I am, on the other side of the mirror. Smiling.
Now you are a stranger to me…but I’m not sorry.
Walk away
30 Mar 2010 3 Comments
in Poetry Tags: anger, Courage, freedom, honesty, journey, Selfishness, Spirit
You try to break me with your words
You try to bind me with your fear
For me to see the world your way
An uninspiring pupeteer
My heart is fierce, my spirit wild
I can not walk the path you tread
A vision darkened and mundane
No coloured dreams to share your bed
How can you live your life asleep?
Without elation, without pain
Never breathing winds of change
Or dancing barefoot in the rain
You can not crush me or control me
I will not fold under your stare
You live your days locked in a coma
Always here, never aware
I’ll walk away without regret
I will embrace it, breathe it in
I’ll leave you to your selfish games
Comfort in knowing, you’ll never win
Survival mode
23 Feb 2010 1 Comment
in Poetry Tags: choices, desire, Heart, honesty, Life, LOVE, Selfishness, Spirit, Strength, test
Just when I find a little peace
You go and start another war
I look at you start to question
What I’m fighting so hard for?
Please don’t assume I will just settle
If it’s not ALL, it’s not enough
I am already on the edge
And you don’t want to call my bluff
How did I wind up in this cage
With faceless strangers shushing me?
Telling me how I should feel
And who I am supposed to be
Well I’ve pretended long enough
I can no longer hide my heart
How fast you seem to have forgotten
It’s why you loved me at the start
This is our LIFE, it’s not a game
Time moves to fast, no second chance
My spirit in survival mode
And there will be no backward glance
Now you are with me or against me
This is a battle I wont lose
My sanity is stretching thin
And the time has come to choose
I refuse to be your habit
I will not settle for polite
I want amazement in your eyes
For you to burn, for you to fight
Clouds
24 Nov 2009 3 Comments
in Poetry Tags: freedom, honesty, Poetry, Spirit
Please don’t tell me to come down
Because I’m happy way up here
Alone with my imagination
Away from everything I fear
Why should I rejoin the world?
It offers nothing that I need
It only kicks me when I’m down
Then hangs around to watch me bleed
Lost in my words and dreams
I feel so safe, I feel so free
No need to edit my personas
I can be real, I can be me
My toes are still touching the ground
Although you fear I’m losing touch
I keep my head up in the clouds
So that it doesn’t hurt as much
Its my induced poetic coma
That keeps the pain from breaking through
But somehow even in the clouds
I still can’t keep my thoughts from you
This is me
28 Oct 2009 5 Comments
in Poetry Tags: Heart, inspiration, Life, Path, Spirit, Truth
I wasn’t born to this world knowing
How life would go, who I would be
But moulded by the road I’ve travelled
This is my lifeblood, this is me
My head is always full of words
Sometimes I don’t know where to start
How can I make you understand
This is my spirit, this is my heart
You see, I just need to make it fit
Put all the pieces in their place
To make some sense out of the chaos
Give what I’m fighting for a face
I’ve woken something deep inside
That’s been asleep for far too long
This is what makes me feel alive
So there’s no way it can be wrong
If you don’t comprehend my thoughts
Then that’s alright, be on your way
This is MY story and I intend
To say the things I need to say
Because I didn’t write these words
To hear your opinion of me,
I wrote them down to leave my mark
I wrote them down so I’d be free
