Sometimes the things that happen to us are God-sent.
We often go into change kicking and shrieking
Unable to see any benefits, focusing on possible downsides.
I have had these experiences not a few times, but many.
Forced to change directions, without my consent.
It’s difficult toward impossible, but it usually ends up being the best.
Have I finally learned the lesson that God knows better than I do?
Honesty prevents me from saying yes.
Categories:
downsides, god,
Form: Free verse
Life comes with moments of sadness
touched with moments of pain
but it also comes with moments of joy
I have loved, lived and breathe
the upsides and the downsides of life
I have sacrificed many things
indulged in the finer things
I gave love, received love, found love
and lost love
I have experienced the good and bad
in all that life has to offer
The ups and downs and turnarounds
You build up you get torn down only
to turn and start to rebuild again
Knowing in all this I was never alone
God always walks beside me
until the day he decides to call me home.
Categories:
downsides, life,
Form: Free verse
You're just higher then most.
Your creativity and intelligence set you apart,
from others met coast to coast.
We are much alike in heart and soul,
Does it really matter if we don't like to bowl?
Intimacy was all I wanted when we first met.
But that all changed after playing the first set.
What I started to feel within,
made me want to keep the game going,
lose or win.
I know you can be a witch,
throw me in the ditch.
But that's usually fear and fatigue talking,
not wanting to get hurt again.
I build you up the way I do,
not to put pressure on you,
to live up to an impossible standard,
no one could meet.
It's because you're down,
I try to act the clown.
I think we have something inside,
that gives us a shot,
understanding because you're smart,
as well as smoking hot.
If we find we can handle each other's downsides,
can't escape that,
the upside is so worth it,
Whether we remain skinny or fat.
Categories:
downsides, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Judy,
Tell me how do you sleep at night
Were you at times baffled
When dreams seemed shattered
In dreams remained a miracle
Were you at times like her?
Changes like season
Today I'm motivated, Tomorrow I'm not
Or have you given a second thought
There was another world outside your world
Like you craved the food not healthy for you
If you were reborn--- this time to the real world
Would you meet her--- poor novice at all cost
Pacify her like a crying baby
Tellin' not only you but many
Who strived but unhappy
Tell her your own downsides
End the convo like things will be all right
And oh! That's the vibe you brought to life. ??
Categories:
downsides, blue, dedication, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Down, so many things forced down,
they force you look down, lie down,
even music tracks “comma, down, doobee down.”
The tracks the coyote left in the snow
drew my eyes down, the cat is missing.
Poor half-bitten stray, already a gimp,
I bet he was overcome and went down,
down by the riverside
down by …
Yes, the down-drums,
I ain’t going to worry war no more,
I ain’t going to worry war no more.
Yeah, right—
Of course, there are some good downsides
when a lover goes down, but all and all,
I prefer the upbeat,
to the beat-down
the suburbs to the
downtown.
Fisrt Published by Clockwise Cat Jan 2015
Categories:
downsides, allegory,
Form: Free verse
You know that feeling?
That empty existence,
That lack of emotion,
It doesn't make much sense..
It's lonely and hollow,
And only tears follow...
A rut that you're stuck in,
A hole that you've dug...
You don't know how to crawl out of,
And you move like a slug?
Where everything looks grey,
And you're eyes are tired...
And it takes all you have to stay together...
The smiles are fake,
The eyes lost their spark...
All you want to do is lie alone and cry in
The quiet and dark...
You feel so alone around a hundred people,
And you try to laugh to keep from crying,
Because you're so exhausted from trying...
You just want to escape it all...
Your mind, your thoughts, your feelings
You don't want to hurt, and you don't want to bawl...
You want to smile, without having to force it,
You want to laugh without a rehearsal
You don't want to be the shell you're becoming...
You want to feel alive and hear your heart drumming
To be numb or to feel, both have their downsides,
To smile or to cry, I still can't decide...
Categories:
downsides, absence, conflict, lost, pain,
Form: Narrative
Take a look inside
& you will surely find
The knowledge they hide
From us in order to preside
The rules have been applied
& now we're left to divide
Water full of fluoride
Only making us collide
Nothing but downsides
As we're left to die at they wayside
Bad intentions creating mad inventions
Just to misguide worldwide
Born vegetarians forced to eat rawhide
Humanitarians looking over their backside
Simple citizens expected to abide
By the laws created statewide
All things set aside
Enjoy the ride
As we wait by the graveside
Though, i must confide
We have ran out of time to decide...
Categories:
downsides, angst, conflict, corruption, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Though there are a few downsides in my life
The good still outweighs the bad
Love’s never deflated
Russell Sivey
Categories:
downsides, hope, life, love,
Form: Kimo
What arms wrap 'round when I need someone there?
What lips touch mine to show they care?
What hands are made to show me love?
What eyes are shining with love I speak of?
There are no arms, no lips, no eyes.
No hands to hold me, just full blown lies.
Lies of which I'm aware but unable to turn
From the one whom my flame continues to burn.
My heart calls out and bleeds to no end
I'm begging for him to be my friend.
I need him to show me just what I mean
But to him I'm not sure I mean anything.
He's brainwashed me well to think that he's right.
Although we don't sleep together at night.
We don't share many happy memories
So many empty moments to seize.
But its too late for those, too late to go back.
We've fallen so far now away from the track.
I don't know what you want to say
And I know that it won't come today.
But some time you'll look back, and see what you had.
You'll realize I wasn't the one doing bad.
That having a woman who's there by your side
Is worth all the downsides and worthy of pride.
Categories:
downsides, lost loveme, me,
Form: Rhyme