Take a look around the world
people hurting everywhere you look
I ask you where is the love
Today stop think before you speak
Then love can really leak
out to the person hurting on the street
Friends no longer friends
Why is this , because loves gone away
Once walked hand n hand
Now can't look each other in the eye
Children treated cruelly too
Everyone is seeking to be loved
Will you make a difference my friend
And let your love send
Out to others who seek it so much
We can make a difference today
Stopping hurt, chasing blues away
Reach out and touch somebody's heart today
Life
How flexible you are.
Today you are fierce,
tomorrow you are gentle.
One moment, innocent as the morning dawn;
the next, a mystery wrapped in silence.
We chase your meaning,
longing to understand your ways,
yet you flow like a river
endless in its journey,
winding through valleys,
climbing rugged hills,
tumbling down steep cliffs,
then resting in tranquil waters.
Oh, Life,
you are a tapestry of wonder,
forever changing,
forever teaching,
forever beyond our grasp.
The wind echos heartache and pain
Questioning but silence remains
Desperately waiting for change
Our future afar
Distance swallows ike quicksand
Our hearts screaming out its demands
Floating minds try to understand
and yet here we are
I'm hurting inside,
My feelings are fried,
I've tried and tried,
Now I'm terrified.
I cried so many times,
Lied about my own crimes,
Hiding them in rhymes.
Priming my abilities,
To see through fallacies.
A disease I didn't ask for,
Yet my consent brings more.
It's been such a chore,
I don't want it anymore,
I'm poor and my body's sore,
They fed my core with lies,
My food is poisoned by dyes,
Pesticides decide the fate,
Of the vegetables I ate.
Feeding our vision full of hate,
Now no one wants to participate.
Trained straight through a TV,
They were programming me.
Making me think I was happy,
Now my body feels crappy,
I'm sappy and tired,
My system mis wired.
I fired the chiefs,
They were more like a thief,
Steeling your belief,
A false sense of relief,
Feeding us all grief,
Leaving us all hurting inside.
Stop explaining—Soft the Tongue,
When Deafness wears a Crown—
The Ear that chooses not to hear
Is Tyrant of the Sound—
The Truth has feet—it walks alone—
Needs not a pleading Guide—
It knocks—but if the Door be sealed,
It passes—unapplied—
To argue with determined Night
Is to instruct the Dark—
The Sun expends no Reasoning
To justify its Spark—
Your Meaning is not made more pure
By Bruising it with Prayer—
The River is not altered by
The Thirst that waits in Air—
Be still—The Pearl explains itself
To those with Eyes to see—
The rest may clutch their chosen Shade
And call it Mystery—
Withdraw your Voice from barren Fields
Where Echo will not grow—
Consent no more your Soul be spent
On those who will not know—
For Silence is the Final Shield
When Hearing is a Wile—
And Peace—does not persuade the World—
It simply—wears its Smile—
A tender ache
hermits my soul—
so far from what I thought
the world would be
when I was
a wide-eyed girl of three.
Now, forty-four,
reality seeps in.
The dream I conjured
was far kinder
than the life
I’m now gowned in.
My body—
a sponge of pain—
soaked in old trauma,
dripping regret,
sinking in secret.
Sit beside me
and tell me it’s true—
that dreams born
will still unfold,
that love is real,
that kindness lingers.
So tell me—
somewhere beneath the grip,
does a softer haven hold?
Does the child I once was
still have a place
to rest her head—
to lay down all she’s carried,
and be held
by the world
in its cradled hands?
I went to church with a hurting heart this morning
and what I encountered was encouragement,
love, and a balm to my sagging spirit
I am thankful for the love I was shown
My body is full of a terrible pain
But it is not of the physical kind
It’s a darkness that is haunting me
And it tortures my soul and mind
It has turned my life into turmoil
Becoming something that I hate
I would do anything to change it
But I feel that it has become too late
I’m slow coming to grasp the fact
That my life will always be this way
A depressed and lonely existence
Until I have reached my dying day
This haunting force that consumes me
Has ruined the life that I’ve been bestowed
Each day a daunting task I’m forced to face
14,637 days and the pain never slowed
When the hurting speaks
All of the memories...
flood back with time
I've never been taught, how
to handle it right
All the thoughts linger...
in the cracks of the mind
Where no one expects,
or is able to find
Bridge
Where are you going
in this altered state?
Where nothing is real,
and solutions are fake.
Chorus
What will you do now?
Wait in the darkness...
Wait in the darkness...
Until...the hurting speaks
and, tears your insides out
that's when the hurting speaks
Why are they speaking
words I cannot hear
I see their lips moving
but I still live in fear
They've got all the answers
or so, they will say
But they couldn't live,
in my day to day
All that you need is to
take our nice pills
Blues reds and greens will
manage all your ills
Chorus
What will you do now?
Wait in the darkness...
Wait in the darkness...
Until...the hurting speaks
and, tears your insides out
that's when the hurting speaks
and, tears your insides out
that's when the hurting speaks...
John Derek Hamilton
August 13,2023
revised with music and vocals June 26,2025
Posted August 4,2025
“what hurt the most?”, he asked.
Struggling to hold back the tears that were threatening to resurface I replied,
“I’m not sure but, maybe it’s the fact that you didn’t hurt as much as I did,
You were not the one churning through each of our memories late at night and wondering where it all went wrong,
you were not the one crying yourself to sleep at night,
you were not the one whose heart was utterly shattered by the simplest actions.
Or maybe it’s the fact that I could never bring myself to tell you the real reason why we grew apart,
Or the fact that I had to tear my eyes away from that face of yours I would long to see all day long,
Or the fact that I lost one of the people who felt like home to me,
Maybe I miss the familiarity,
The easiness of it all.
But what hurt the most is the realization that I will never love someone like I loved you,
Yet couldn’t do the most mere of actions when I would’ve given you the world had you asked for it.
This goodbye is bittersweet but I hope it is the end because I refuse to toil like this without acknowledgement and there is nothing left in me that you have possibly not taken already.
So that is what hurt the most”
I ended
Admiring you from a distance,
wanting to feel your breath upon my skin,
Looking through your eyes to your heart,
but you don't let me in,
Holding my eyes to yours,
not wanting you to go away,
just sitting here starring at you,
not knowing what to say,
I know you are the one for me,
i'll tell you how I know,
please give me the chance to show you,
I Love You,before you go,
This admiration is just so strong,
I can feel my heart beat fast,
knowing what I have with you,
just wishing it will last,
Babe,I hope you understand this,
all of this is true,
my heart is overflowing with Love,
I have ,for only you......
Written By:
Lois Barcomb
The earth is tired, can’t you see?
We take too much, and set it free.
The skies are gray, the rivers dry,
Yet we just watch as time goes by.
The trees once stood, so tall, so strong,
But now they’re fading, something’s wrong.
We hear the cries, the oceans plea,
But still we act like we don’t see.
We’ve lost the green, the soft, the blue,
And deep inside, we always knew.
But still we waste, still we take,
Not realizing what’s at stake.
We know it’s dying, we know it’s clear,
But do we even care?
The earth is hurt, it can’t pretend,
And soon it might not have an end.
So look around, it’s not too late,
Maybe it’s time we change our fate.
We’ve done enough, now let’s undo,
Before the earth stops loving you.
Baby, just take a sec
Put everything down
Look me deep in my eyes
Block out all of the sounds around
Let our souls intertwine
Don't be afraid
Weve loved one another
Since the beginning of days
Keep getting lost
In eachothers eyes
Breathe in real deep
Let out a deeper sigh
Know that I'm yours
For eternity & longer
Let our souls take over
N help one another grow stronger
You no longer have to be afraid
There will be no more pain
We have so much love in our hearts
Let them guide us,
Instead of these human brains
How now say wow
why even try
fear ever near
life filled with strife
lessons learned
relationships burned
addiction suspicion
heavy hurting hearts
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