Best Treading Poems
The tides come and go, as the moon says hello and goodbye.
The water rises and falls, as the sun comes to live and die.
She just treads on, drifting through the sea.
She just treads on, for weak she cannot be.
The sting of her betrayal brings tears that fall like rain;
The broken hopes of tomorrow bring a familiar pain.
She just treads on, drifting through the sea.
She just treads on, for weak she cannot be.
The storms of life come and go, the water rough at times.
The feeling of going under, and just like that the sun shines.
She just treads on, drifting through the sea.
She just treads on, for weak she cannot be.
I have been treading the water of the universe
For 15,845 days
Head slightly above the water
Arms and legs in a frantic dance for survival
You can tell yourself that at some point you will stop
There must be a stopping point, right?
The time to float seems like a luxury you have earned
But for today, day 15,845 you will keep treading
If you feel the water begin to creep up
If the universe seems bound to rise against you
You may want to flail about like a fish on the sand
But believe me, it will be useless
Better to sink into the water
Let the blackholes devour you
And come to find that what you always needed
Was the sinking
Sink in to the deep
Fall in to the vastness of the void
Stare with terror at the tide of destruction
Embrace your fate
And then
Emerge to find that what you thought was an ending
Is really a beginning
That the strange new shore upon which you find yourself
Is a paradise for the aching limbs that struggled for so long
You can float here
In the undulating waves
Of the new world
In a universe you found in your destruction
The heaven they preach
Is no haven to man but hell,
Their tongues sweeter than honey
Who can resist the melody
When they paint their world to taste in rainbow colors
Singing glory glory glory
Preaching the word according to their world
One-heart less
Astute in their chicanery, they have a face
Colorfully charming as a chameleon
The bait be-jeweled with treasure
Their words up to the measure
Its a highway of friendship and promises to the trap,
Hell a dead end to their ploy
They know the way to the promised land
Where poverty is a story to be told
They lead the way to the land
The land leads the way to the cage
Where the promised heaven is sure hell
From the cage,
At their expedient behest
Your labor leads them to their desires afar
The line is cast
The bait is set,
The hungry cage is salivating for prey.
The drum is struck
For our appreciation of sound
Venal as devious in their ways,
Astute in their chicanery, they have a face
Colorfully charming as a chameleon,
Their tongues sweeter than honey
As they paint green
The pastures they wish greener
Acclamatizing to our heart's desire for better
My flesh is screaming,
if the cancer is me,
Then cut me out
and set me free.
No more to endure
The sight of the shore,
While drowning capsized out at sea.
If I let myself go,
limbs aching and slow,
So close to that shore,
Then no more I’ll know
Of those I have missed
Of faces unkissed
Of drowning in tears of sorrow
But to them I will pass,
a pain that will last
Forever they’ll sail,
B’neath skies overcast.
A hurt so deep
A pain they'll keep,
My drowning will anchor them fast.
So tethered am I
to what I'm denied,
A childless mother
I must abide
By rules so cruel
Yet love is the fuel
And from drowning I shall not have died.
Yet Ever Onward, Onward Keep Treading We Must
Any moment we may lose a love one so dear
so exists that long black hand of foreboding fear.
Yet not until it comes into our lives and rips
away that treasure, do we see its icy grips!
Invisible claws slash to send into decay
forever gone tho' in agony we oft pray.
And as long silence answers from far far above
we face saddest truth, we lost that which we so love!
No more hearing, that cheerful good morning salute
as if life never existed and sounds are mute.
And within this darkness pain too oft reigns supreme
as we fight fleeing shadows of our once great dreams.
Yet ever onward, onward keep treading we must,
standing still in life, oft brings early death and dust.
Robert J. Lindley, 9-20-2017
Sonnet, Lind 12/12
Subject (Death And Fate)
I am run down,beat,exhausted,there is nothing left.
Swallowed in deadened emotion.
Feeling as though the price of my sacrifice is to much to bare.
To keep safe what I cherish most.
Yet the test of time has shifted gears.
Love prevent evil.
I shall rapture his sins.
Stand strong in belief.
Strength will prevail our destiny.
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Treading water
Where did it all go wrong?
What happened
To those dreams and hopes
Of yesteryear?
Traded in for hard currency
They're drifting further and further away
And you can't summon up the strength
To save them from the abyss
Now you're owned by the bank,
Climbing up debt mountain
As responsibilities snap away
At your heels
You used to laugh at the lottery
And all those desperate saps
Now it's your only escape
From 40 years hard labour
Treading water
How long before you start to sink?
But something always keeps you kicking
When it's easier to drown.
I must learn to swim, without you.
I must hold my breathe, for one moment longer
My lungs and my depth, they need a moment longer
My feet, my heartbeat, exasperated
Encircling myself, waves encircling me
Am I alone while I am treading?
Am I alone while I am sinking?
Dry salt, parched, dry soul
My motion is treading, my body sinking
Dry hope, dry salt, parched soul
I must learn to swim, without you.
I must hold my breathe, for one moment longer
My lungs and my depth, they need a moment longer
I think I am ready to sink
What ever I say turns into a fight
When will you ever get me right?
Once you have a certain perception
It changes the idea of your conception
And when I stay it bluntly as I do
You take it wrong because the insecurity lies in YOU!
I can admit my mistakes and more
Just remember I m older and I know more for sure
I try and look out for you when you wave to strangers who drive by
Outside I smile but inside I cry
If I told you to stop it
You’ll run out in a hysterical fit
I need you to support me in things I do
But I have to play a game to please you
If I was my self you would leave and never look back
Having said that the eggs will soon crack
1996
THEY SAY WHAT THEY MAY
EARTH TREADING STARS,
FOR THEY ENVY ME
AS EVERY LIVING CREATURE CAPABLE OF LOVE
CAN SEE.
I HAVE IN MY HOLD AN ANGEL
THAT SIMPLY FELL FROM THE SKY
AND BIRTHED A HUMAN IN EVERY EYE.
I HAVE A MASTERPEICE
MADE FROM GODS SCULPTURED TOUCH
AND ONE WHOM IS PRAISED VERY MUCH.
EARTH TREADING STARS,
I PLEASURE WHAT I HAVE,
MY SACRED TREASURE.
LEAVE NOT THIS WORLD
FOR YOU HOLD MY HEART
FROM MY CHEST APART.
MAY IT KEEP IN YOUR GRASPS TO THE END DAYS FAR.
MY EARTH TREADING STARS!
(V.4 continued) There’s a joyful, wonderful future in store, despite this bittersweet sentiment
Brewing inside of me…these waves of emotions
Brew inside of me…ignore the ocean of commotions
You’re my one and only awesome devotion
We can dance in this trance with the waves of majestic motion
Radiant reveries swarm us like bees, hovering around the bee hive
Thank God that you and I are meant to be with each other – we are at ease and alive!
*chorus*
The mountain winds are howling its stormy resentment
The snow glitters on the triumphant mountains…
I’ve tried to conceal these feelings of discontent
My eyes are spraying with tears of sorrow – weep no more, sad fountains
Don’t push me to the limits – I breathe in and out
I let go of my anxiety and trade it with prosperity–
I’m one with the passionate, frozen desires in my heart
I’m strong like Sampson in the bible –
Let the light of day unfreeze my heart’s agony and avarice
I don’t want to believe in those silly allegories…
Am I your living sacrifice?
My heart is as cold as ice…I need to take His advice!
I have faced reality alone before
Is this real or is this a myth? There’s more land to explore!
(V.5) I know things aren’t black and white…
It won’t be for a while unfortunately
Until we make some rearrangements
Complete the act of change,
Which is a challenging chore…what are you waiting for?
Make a chance that will change the world more and more!
Change is a challenging chore
It’s hard to get out my comfort zone
I groan, for I’m left on my own…
Without you, the loneliness won’t leave me alone
The solitude grows colder…
I’m as dry and feeble as a bone
The weeping of a thousand people
Sounds like thousands of infants,
Lament and discontent makes our heart
Make grief-stricken, awful oaths
Serene Shores wash away the woeful afflictions
That I’ve been through for many a year –
Will you please forgive my disgraceful sins? Can you burn its evidence to the ground?
Those sins have been driving me insane . . . making me misery-bound!
And I’m still waiting for His healing rain = - )
To erase the pangs of the past pains – I’m driving on a hopeful lane!
OF ALL THE RICHES OF THE WORLD
THEIRS ONLY ONE OF ENVIOUS WORTH.
MY EARTH TREADING STARS,
YOU ARE RICHER BY FAR.
YOU FOOTSTEPS CARESS THE TOPPLED GROUND
AND PROFESS IT SOUNDLY.
I AM BY RHYTHM PROFOUND.
OUR HEARTS ARE BOUND.
EARTH TREADING STARS,
I FIND YOUR EYE
UPON NIGHTS CANDLES IN THE SKIES.
THEY TWINKLE AND SHINE BY DUST
DROPPED BY AN ANGEL DEVINE.
THIS LOVE IS MINE.
I DINE UPON YOUR KISSES,
YET LIVE UPON YOUR WISHES.
EARTH TREADING STARS,
A MIRACLE,
THATS WHAT YOU ARE.
YOU TOOK MY SOLE
AND MADE IT WHOLE.
TAKE THIS TENDERLY REGARD
AND SOFTENED EVERY INCH MADE HARD.
I GIVE IT FREELY IN MY DEMEANER.
SOME MAY
CALL ME A DREAMER.
SOME SAY
I WAS A VICTUM OF BREATHLESS LOVE
AND SWEPT AWAY.
FAR AND FAR I GET EVERY DAY.
Just treading water
I see no haven in sight
Lead arms lose the fight
Eileen Manassian Ghali
Sensing each step I persuade my body onward and up.
Trekking up toward the light that adorns a precious cup,
Angels around sing gentle sounds, I never heard before.
Imagining the beauty that awaits me past that golden door,
Reality sets in that I am rising upward to Heaven’s gate.
Why oh why, have I been chosen to be given this fate.
Again I see the Angels floating past my mortal soul.
Yelling praises to him, our Lord, I met a mortal goal.
Truth is what they said, even though I had sinned many ways.
Only the living truth will deliver you upward, glorious praise.
These steps I take I see all my sins on each tread that I take.
Hearing forgiven, forgiven, my soul gets lighter upon the wake.
Evangelical songs being sung, I pray, in his name, for my sake.
Stairway brightens as I reach the top, hearing a question, I stop.
Tell me, your saviors name, He who died upon the hilltop.
Angels await my answer, tis a simple question that he does say.
Reveling, Jesus I say, he took our sins, saving all upon that day.
Seeing in my heart, I believed, he said come forth, cross over this way.
Earth Treading Stars,
If the eye is a window to the soul, then, the heart is the doorway to love.
Love is two souls intertwined and kindred in such a way you cannot find their meeting place, nor can you tear it apart. It is one embodiment of pure pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow.
As the joy stars provable above when cupid’s arrow bows inhibitions to love.
Doubt the stars are fire, doubt the sun moves, doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt that I love you.
True love can blind you but at the same time if you let it, it can also open your eyes.
I have never seen so clearly then when I look in your eyes.
An eternity can’t count the times I’ve thought about you
And is not near enough time to love you.
It may not have been at first sight
But at second look I knew it was only right.
Earth Treading Stars,
True love is not how you forgive, but how you forget, not what you see but what you feel, not how you listen but how you understand, and not how you let go but how you hold on.
I plan to hold on tell you let go and I will let go as long as you know,
Though you might not wait,
And even if it’s to late,
Trough out destiny and time in the hands of fate,
I can’t love you for the rest of your life,
But I will love you for the rest of mine.