God you are the smartest, you take it all away, only to turn our head and make us see the light.
God thank you for all the time you give us to make our life shine bright, thank you for all the times we fell we learned lots of lessons, and got some bruises too.
God thank you for giving us a chance to get back up and make amends.
God we are trying to follow good ways, please don’t give up on us, we will pray and work to make you proud.
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.
The world is not the sum of its rainbows,
nor the tally of its storms...
it is the vision carried in the soul,
the inward star or inward eclipse
that shapes each step.
Please give me a chance
To explain what’s on my mind
About my career which I dream.
Please your one glance
Is enough to make me blind
To see myself and scream.
I know that I failed
To be the child
You dreamed of
Please show mercy
I know that I became
Careless towards career
It was too much to handle
Please show mercy
I know that I am
Your blood, but not
A copy of yours to be
Please show mercy
I know that I turned
To be a black spot
Of your family
Please show mercy
Sometime we are searching for answers we forget to
Open our eyes to the answers being in our reflections
Universe creation created essence in which we live
Life mimic our thoughts and every action that we take
Life is a balance of living and loving we share in our life
If the mirror reflection is distorted then it is our own life
Fullness is based is how we view ourself in the mirrors
Eventually we learn to look beyond the cracks in our life
When all seems lost the sun still rises ~
AP: 1st place 2026
To Fail
My will
I have lost
To every person
Spread the message
Go
To the Black seas of sorrow
Go even from our homes
Yea, from the peaks of glory
Which will sink beneath the waves
Even our agony
The sorrows in our souls
Will work together against
All of us
To change the world
They do go forth
To share the news
My messengers of the sorrow
So go forth my fellows
Listen to them
Because we have refused to
Fight against them
Breath in the pains
Drink in the sorrow
Behold the griefs of the world
Do not
Remember Me
When the heart is hopeless
Everything around feels so restless.
A promise is like a ray of light
That soothes the heart,shining bright.
A promise made,is an eternal vow
Nothing against it,the heart feels to know.
It makes one feel on top of the world
With blessings, one stands strong and bold.
When promises seem false and broken
The words hurt and split,once spoken.
The heart fills with grief and sorrow
The pain is deep,no one can borrow.
The hopeful heart breaks into pieces
All one dreams,at once,ceases.
The heart cannot accept the truth
That was a mistake of hopeful youth.
The glow and shine vanish at once
There remains no courage to take another chance.
Life seems to end with a broken heart
Everything seems puzzled... from where to start?
I wondered where the teardrops go,
Once they have been softly wept.
Do they wander with the winds,
Or rest where Heaven's secrets slept?
I followed one through autumn fields;
It kissed the earth without a sound.
By spring, a bloom of bluebonnets
Had crowned the very place it found.
Another sought an ancient oak
And disappeared beneath its grain.
The tree stood taller year by year,
Made stronger by another rain.
Another reached a stranger's heart
Who smiled though burdened by despair.
It bloomed into a gentle grace
That neither soul knew lingered there.
For every teardrop remembered hope
When I remembered only pain.
It gathered all my broken prayers
And whispered them like summer rain.
For every teardrop remembered love
When I believed that love had flown.
It stitched together thread by thread
The tattered places I'd outgrown.
For every teardrop remembered light
Though all I saw was endless night.
It kept a flame I could not tend
Until the dawn returned my sight.
So, if you wonder where they go,
Do not search the earth or sea.
The tears I thought the world had lost...
Were busy becoming me.
Doom falls over my day,
Makes me feel like a corpse about to decay.
"A pitiful life," is what I say.
But life will move my heart to sway,
I will move on to my way,
And that day my smile will stay.
Birds will chirp and play,
Their music to my ears will make me gay.
You walk the way the wind blows
Or so the story goes.
You rode the waves of blue,
And lived a life with no clue
You blow smoke of tar
And drive a beat up car
You live in built-up walls,
Where twilight slowly crawls.
A fortress made of stone,
To keep yourself unknown.
You traded wind and sky,
To watch the world go by.
But rain taps on the window pane,
To remind you of the pain.
And the wind still knows your name,
Before you quit the game.
You throw the portal wide,
And cast the ghost aside.
Out where the blacktop gleams,
You wake up from your dreams.
You head across the bay,
To find a better way.
You turn toward the east,
The captive soul released.
The engine starts to roar—
You walk the way no more.
The silent sands in glass glide down,
A demure drip, without a frown.
Each grain a moment, soft and fine
In life`s pages, a gift divine.
They buzz tales of days that slipped by,
Of joys that bloomed, then flew to sky;
The present trickles like a stream,
Reflecting the soul`s fleeting dream.
In the un-spilled part of the sand
We eye the future that still stands,
A heap of hope, a silent plea
To cherish all that comes to be.
The world keeps whirling, time evolve,
Bits by bits, our muscles dissolve,
The hourglass mirrors our short stay,
Reminds us, life won't ever sway.
So, while blood still runs through our veins
Let us use our hands and our brains,
The world, a better place to build,
From rains and woeful winds to shield.
Everything off, unsaveable dream and past
What can a lonely soul do? What a poor!
– And this is just the beginning of the end
Pain. Hmm. An open brain, a crashed mind
So many attacks, destroyed self-protection
– And this is just the beginning of the end
Devils keep up this life, Jesus sees this life
Not his mistake, loved teacher. I love you
– And this is just the beginning of the end
No way. But there is. Who can help? Who?
Live in this spiritual gap! Oh, I need my hell!
– And this is just the beginning of the end
No time, no chance. I want to live and die
To the new. For the new life. Where is that?
– And this is just the beginning of the end
I am out of my mind. No idea who drives
This is the gift from Life. Destructive life
– And this is just the beginning of the end
Demons, evils, caring for this hellish time
This time is my fate, A difficult, dense web
– And this is just the beginning of the end
No way, dying hope, life is a labyrinth, gray
So many options, all of them just illusions
– Hopeless life, willing desire, end of life
End of life? Yes. How?
New life. How? This is the end
Hmm. Life is turned back
The breath, dead silent
no pulse ahead, no way back
shadows lengthen, day is done
No more to explore
no more to hope nor to yearn
just fading light at day`s end.
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She tried with all her might,
To shoulder the burden of life.
She bore witness to farewells each day,
And chose life in the face of every storm.
They all tried, really they did,
Until they found refuge in their fall.
This little leaf had no complaint,
As one by one, all her friends were laid to rest.
When solitude became an unpleasant companion,
She would peak into the window at the lying form.
Her mind would go to faraway lands,
Where she and her were free of promises.
They could be the wind and fly away,
Finding themselves where illness frayed.
Where she could be a wayward leaf tucked in her hair,
Or lost amongst her many pages inked with confessions of love.
Or she could've passed by her still in her green,
To have never met again thereof.
She wished it was anywhere,
But here -
Where life would choose them,
And they could choose death.
From the perspective of the leaf, inspired by The Last Leaf by O.Henry
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