Business: best attend with care.
Promptness: why elude?
Positive? Consider flair.
Right and wrong, I brood.
Patience! Thus with trials endured:
Battles bravely fought:
Company vicious, mired and moored!
Flee, O evil thought!
Integrity, sacrosanct.
Injure not the next.
Virtuously houses haunt!
Honesty, my text!
Acquaintances, be thou few.
Be just what you are.
Manners, friendship! O church pew!
Veracity, star!
Parents, counsel respected!
Money, sacrificed!
Intoxicants, protected!
Improvement, well priced!
Wrong: un-ventured threshold!
Passions, with care full watched!
Salutation kindly, gold!
Discouragement: botched!
Zealous labor, for the right!
Otherwise bad night!
Revolution in full flight?
Sound within me, fight...
Nothing can make up for the hurt you get
When you're humiliated or in debt.
It certainly stirs a sour feeling of bitterness and regret
When realizing that trusting people is never a safe bet.
But the solution is not being indignant or upset.
Don't let people injure your vanity.
Or accept their deceit and abuse with alacrity.
What's life without dignity?
It's just a poor, useless soil
That crops nothing however hard you toil.
Don't let despair overwhelm your soul
And lead you to strange impressions.
Your spirit yearns for freedom not control.
So there is no need for concessions.
Just keep dignity as your lifelong goal.
Ten thousand apologies do no good
should the offense injure me
Delicate, the affairs of my heart
~ think before you cleave them apart
Words wound, they hit you like a brick, and can make you sick.
Words wound, they have power, they can lift and can lower you to hell.
Words are a way to communicate your feelings, they can linger in your heart and mind forever.
Words have meaning, they can grow, like a seed they can get big and grow and grow.
Words from God, tell us how much he loves us, and how he will punish us if we are not part of his words.
Words are like swords, they injure, they cure, they lift, they last forever and can linger in our minds forever.
Words are powerful, so use them with care, release them, and let them go into the air, let them cure and calm, let us all pray for the best of times.
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.
I'm Leo the Lion, I am, I am
From the mystical world of Astrology
I'm generous, strong and warmhearted
That's if you believe in symbology
Not making this up, check it out
Masculine, positive and extroverted
If I listen too carefully, my head will swell
Which should definitely be averted
My wife suggested widening the doorways
Or I might severely injure my brain
Methinks my honey's being a bit facetious
But I love her a bunch just the same
I'm Leo the Lion, I am, I am
Just a fun loving guy who enjoys life
They also say I'm very broad-minded
Love broads but don't tell my wife
If I was a marsupial
I would stay in mama’s pouch
Which would save me from hurting
I would never have to say “darn” or “ouch”
Never stub my toe or injure myself
Snug as a cherished vase on a bookshelf
I would stay hidden, cozy and warm
In no danger from predators or a bad storm
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, Oh LORD, my strength and my Redeemer." (NKJV)
- Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth be right
and acceptable in Your sight,
Oh LORD, let the thoughts of my heart
bring praise to Thee. Let me depart
from every evil way and live
for Your glory. Kindly forgive
if my words injure anyone,
if at their expense, I have fun.
If I tell lies, let me repent,
Remember for every word spent,
I have to give account to Thee,
Only You know the real me;
Season my words, my demeanour,
You are my Strength, my Redeemer.
When we injure our bodies, we expect it to take time to heal, but why do we not extend that healing process to ourselves for emotional healing as well?
Someone walking around in a cast easily receives sympathy whereas someone struggling with an emotional scar and is short tempered gets our annoyance.
I walk around with physical scars for the world to see but have those emotional
ones crammed deep inside as far away as I can hide them.
What if we decided to heal those wounds that no one can see? What if we took the time to clean, bandage, care and heal them?
You cant change how people treat you but you can change how you treat yourself. You can learn how much you can tolerate and when to walk away.
I hope you take the time to heal. I hope you learn to rest your mind as well as your body. I hope you realize how important you are and needed in this place.
Pain pierces the heart and injures the soul.
Bleeding and crying, we long to be whole.
Life's selfish acts injure all who are near.
Reaching out for help, but we retract in fear.
We cannot accept kindness as we live in pain.
On beautiful sunny days, we only feel the rain.
Sorrows on sorrows, we only exist on this day.
Faith and hope fade into the dark until we pray.
Slow drifting sands shift through our souls.
In awe, the sands swirl, making a visage whole.
Stars ushered in a being so wonderful and pure.
As his touch melts our woes with love as a cure.
On the Eve of the New Year, our brother mends at night.
Our hope and joy are restored, giving us a future so bright.
We rise in this New Year as our wounds are healed.
Finally, the visage of our brother has been revealed.
Pumpkins, cornstalks, apples galore
Crisp leaves falling at the back door
Gentle twilight, breathless with song
Fall’s the season where I belong
Crimson maples and golden oaks
Quiet rhythms from God’s soft brushstrokes
Seasonal bliss comes on so strong
Fall’s the season where I belong
Honey sun climbs through cobalt skies
Faint wind speaks to the old and wise
Dew trickles weep for all that’s wrong
Fall’s the season where I belong
Mums in rust, auburn and ginger
Dusk’s moans couldn’t shock or injure
Blessings I’d like to prolong
Fall’s the season where I belong
Glistening stars in murky bliss
Shadows fade o’er October’s kiss
Splendor I’ll sing all my lifelong
Fall’s the season where I belong
I've always worked to unveil my true self,
But some people are blind,
It’s like describing the rainbow itself,
To someone who is color blind.
Some folks are worth leaving far behind,
Neither linger nor waste your time;
They're toxic, as they've always tried,
To injure you, to keep you from your climb.
Ugly to believe
an ugly kiss;
Ugly smeared lipstick
matches ugly swollen lips;
Ugly to pretend;
It’s ugly to be deceiving;
Ugly screams
lead to such ugly crying;
Ugly to injure;
An ugly wound bleeds
ugly silence,
since it’s ugly to complain;
Ugly as a rose
love’s ugly token;
Ugly to be smitten;
Hopeless is so ugly,
Hopeless romantic.
If you injure me, I will bite you
If you challenge me, I will fight you
If you kiss me, You will miss me.
I hope one day the world is blessed to understand
every person we meet or have ever met
no matter what letter or letters we attach to them…
are part of the same alphabet.
That the same alphabet where we get L G B T and Q
has the letters H A T E and L O V E too.
That it’s not the letters that can hurt a person
that injure or offend them
It’s how we see the letters
It’s how we choose to blend them
one day it just hits you that you are no longer going to bed with the intention to not wake up
one day you smile not only for a photo but because something has sparked inside of you
one day you will grab a tissue because your sick not to wipe away the mascara that rolls down you face along with the bitter taste of tears
one day you come to terms with life and how it may have its ups and downs
one day you’ll tell someone you love them not because you believe this is the last chance you may get to tell them but just to remind them of your unconditional love for them
one day you realise that you no long take the razor to draw lines throughout your body and to injure yourself to just feel something but instead to shave your legs ready for a day in the sun
one day you stop wearing hoodies in 25 degree weather because you stop cutting
you never know that this day arrives but one day you will look back and let out a sigh
one day you will find true happiness
one day it will all be over
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