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They say twenty-eight is still young, still light,
But they don’t see ghosts that haunt me at night.
They don’t feel the weight that sits in my chest,
Or how grief don’t fade—it just learns how to rest.
I buried my brothers, piece by piece,
Watched laughter fade and silence increase.
Then life took more with a crueler aim,
My babies… and nothing’s been the same.
Two tiny souls, just four and two,
The world kept spinning,but mine split in two.
People say “time heals,” like that’s enough,
But time just taught me how to act tough.
They don’t know the nights I wanted to go,
Where breathing felt like the cruelest blow.
I didn’t just try—I crossed that line,
Twice felt death whisper, “You could be mine.”
Flatline silence… then dragged back through,
A second chance I never asked to do.
Woke up to tubes and a borrowed breath,
Halfway between life and unfinished death.
So now I’m here, but I don’t know why,
Just counting days I didn’t die.
They say there’s purpose, some grand design,
But it feels like I’m just passing time.
And somewhere deep in the wreck of me,
There’s a question I hate—why keep me?
If all I do is take up space,
And bring this weight into every place.
I try to love, but I feel too much,
Turn everything heavy with just one touch.
Like I’m made of loss, like I’m made of ache,
Like I’m more than anyone should have to take.
But still… I’m here, though I don’t belong,
A quiet echo, a broken song.
Not healed, not whole, not even okay,
Just someone who didn’t fade away.
I died when you denied our love a chance.
You went on avoiding me, breaking my heart.
Like a pearl locked in an oyster,
You have sealed your heart, barring entry.
What currents flow through your heart?
What eddy churns and gyrates there?
Do the thoughts of our love now linger there?
Does my image, to your mind ever return?
Do you recall how we stood silent beneath the stars?
How we then built an epoch in a glance!
We so blindly loved each other.
Like a phantom I followed you behind.
To you alone my heart as offering I gave.
Never suspected any force would tear us apart.
But how Fate waited swift to smite
And how we had to part in anguish,
Toppling down the sand castles we built,
Leaving a heap of debris behind.
I yearn for what went missing at some point,
Somewhere in the long journey of life.
Now each sunset is a reminder of our touch,
And your laughter rings in my heart as a haunting echo.
I know, there is an ocean between us now.
Yet, desperately I yearn for your embrace.
Do I not deserve a second chance?
I yearn for you, missing so much.
Will you once more open your heart,
That I can enter it and nest within,
To douse all my smouldering pain
Until Death invites us to our grave.
After months, I have gained the courage to ask.
Unless you give a positive response, I am done!
One night when all was clear and bright
Stars shined down with soothing light
Glittering hope through the heavens
Reflecting smiles across the spirit
Reminding all that the time had come
When our King, our love, would be born
Snowflakes kissing the cheeks so gentle
Whispering faith through the being
Delighting the soul with dreams of joy
Kindness aroused on creative festivities
Where His love would be celebrated
Praised with rejoicing and hymns so graceful
One night when peace was falling allover
Beckoning the air to breathe in such sweetness
Drifting over clouds in skies filled with tenderness
Coloring the heart in flamboyant charms
Erasing every worry, each doubt, all despair
Replacing it with elation, wonder and inspiration
His birth would be celebrated across the world
By those who know this King is God with us
The One who created us come down to give to us
A second chance to be all that He had in mind
When He gave us life, breathed air into our lungs
And sparked the fire that would bring us alive
Jesus came to us a tiny babe who was pure love
The One we would worship when all was said and done
The One we could hope to bring to others through our gifts…
The light that came down to us when we truly believed
And gave Him the opportunity to live through us
As reflections of the love He brings when He is given…
The heart who believes in the King of Kings, Jesus!
Laughter falls over my thoughts
Pouring joy into me like hope lingering
On stardust nights, brilliant as a smile
Hungry like my heart as it grows closer
To the Son, the Light, the One
Who I base my life, my hope, upon
Jesus came down to shine His light
Across the lives who know
He is the hope we’ve been praying for
The grace we’ve been waiting for
The second chance for love that abides
In the heart He fills with His glorious light
Joy is rained down like dewdrop dreams
Emptying the heaven’s endless insight
So that we can feel the beauty and peace
The whisper of a tenderness, a caress
Lifting all the worry and fear, piercing
The darkest shadows with His magnificence
His brilliant rays of wonder and inspiration
Feelings that flow through our hearts
Fill us up with a sense of acceptance
The miracle of a grace that unfolds into
The heart who knows that His love
Is the answer to every prayer, every need
The answer that supplies and agrees
Love like this fulfills our heart’s demands
While assuring our souls that we have
Everything we need to reach heaven’s home
Learning to love
What does that mean
Learning to love
Maybe harder than it seems
Imagine loving yourself
And have to put that energy
Into someone else
Loving your flaws
Mistakes and all
Daily affirmation
Daily dedication
To yourself
It may seem hard
At first
In the end, you know your worth
No matter what you do
Learning to love is a hard thing to do
Learn to love
Love to learn
beneficial to you
Let It Burn ?? ??
(REPEAT 1X)
Every day will not be the same
Somedays will be challenging, demanding
Somedays you'll need clarity
Understanding
On your plan
Your worth
Getting past the hurt
Putting in all the work
For what it's worth
Learning more about yourself
Like what you like to do
And whatever else
Sparks your mind
Know you will be just fine
Give yourself a hand a round of applause
For giving yourself a second chance when you fall
Ask the lord above
To help you learn how to love
Learn to love
Love to learn
beneficial to you
Let It Burn ?? ??
(REPEAT 1X)
Learn it
Love
Sent from above
Give yourself flowers.
Smell them
For hours
Be proud of who you became
Self-love doesn't change
Learn to love
Love to learn
beneficial to you
Let It Burn ?? ??
(REPEAT 1X)
Written by:Concetta Hardnett
01/09/2023
When life, for us, seems full of doubt and fear
A wondrous Silver Lining may appear
To shine a light, a light so bright, so clear
And wipe away each sigh and bitter tear.
When hopes are dashed
And all our dreams seem out of reach
When we despair of ever reaching that far goal
Then think, dear friend, about the prize that’s there for all
It may whisper softly in your ear
The promise of a new frontier
It may show us all that hope can reappear
And make those doubts and worries disappear
That silver lining in the darkened sky
Beyond the distant mountains high
May offer us a second chance to try
And win the prize that each of us holds dear
It is a sign of better things to come,
A promise that we are far from done
That we yet may rise and overcome
And celebrate those treasures to be won
That silver lining is a beacon to us all
It guides us, helping each avoid the fall
It gives us strength, it gives us all a reason
To keep moving forward through each season
It reminds us all of trials we’ve been through
Of battles won, of dragons that we slew
Shows us the love of many friends, not just a few
That helps us all stand tall, no matter what we do.
That silver lining is our saving grace
Delivering us from many a desperate place
It shows us that, no matter how cruel life can be,
There is redemption there for you and me
So let us keep on striving to do what must be done
Though life may hold hard challenges for all
Remember - we can do it, yes, each and every one
For that silver lining keeps us from the fall!
" Life is the story of men who have strived, won or failed and of hearts that keep yearning against all odds" ~ By Poet
Like a pearl locked in an oyster,
You have sealed your heart, barring entry.
What currents flow through your heart?
What eddy churns and gyrates there?
Do the thoughts of our love linger there?
Does my image, to your mind ever return?
Do you recall how we stood silent beneath the stars?
How we then built an epoch in a glance!
We so blindly loved each other.
Like a phantom I followed you behind.
To you alone my heart as offering I gave.
Never suspected any force would tear us apart!
But how Fate waited swift to smite,
And how we had to part in anguish,
Toppling down the sand castles we built,
Leaving a heap of debris behind.
I yearn for what went missing at some point,
Somewhere in the long journey of life.
Now each sunset is a reminder of our touch,
And your laughter rings in my heart as a haunting echo.
I know, there is an ocean between us now
Yet I desperately yearn for your embrace.
Do I not deserve a second chance?
I yearn for you, missing so much.
Will you once more open your heart,
That I can enter it and nest within,
To douse all my smoldering pain
Until Death invites us to our grave
The headlights were upon me, with no time to react
My mind and body shut down, so I never felt the hard impact
I remembered not using my seatbelt; I didn’t want to wrinkle my new suit
I was being honored for an accomplishment in my lifelong work pursuit
When my life flashed before my eyes, I was disappointed with what I saw,
There was no rhyme to its reason; there were no answers to any cause.
I saw a lifetime of selfishness with vanity as its only gain
I prayed for a miracle to allow me to change my awful aim
The first lights that I saw looked like heaven’s pearly gates
Then I heard those beeping sounds from hospital machines that I hate
No one was in the room with me, for reasons my vision made perfectly clear
But I had been given a second chance and there was nothing left for me to fear
It took a year for me to recover, with plenty of scars to mark the way
But now I had a mission; I visited the children’s ward almost every day
I met a lovely therapist who soon would be my beautiful wife
And now I had new purpose to go along with my brand new life
The papers all reported about the horrific accident that I had
They said it changed a corporate mogul into a simpleton, gone half-mad
I gave away all my money to charities that wear other peoples' names
But I am richer in my poverty than at any other time in this game
I give thanks to that driver, who fell asleep behind the wheel
And I don’t care that there’s no one who quite understands just how I feel
The old me died that night and as answers to my desperate prayers
A man with rhyme to reason is now left standing here
Two days ago, the curbside stack of trash was shaping up.
The maximum size of 4W x 8L x 4H was just about done.
About this time, a friendly homeless man suddenly showed up.
He walked toward me and said, "I just lost my apartment".
He said his name was Sky, and I thought, "How interesting".
I offered him food, called a Mercy Pact, that I keep in my car.
He was grateful, but noticed two lawn mowers out back.
Yes, he was a little challenged but of adequate intelligence.
He knew that I was cleaning out the trash, but not that I was moving.
He wanted to look at the lawn mowers. So, I allowed him to investigate.
I offered him the older smaller green mower that ran well, but his eyes
and heart were set on the larger red and newer one that needed a part
and did not run. He kept trying to make the red one run but to no avail.
I suggested the part it probably needed and gave it to him and put $7 in
his hand. With food, a warm blanket I also gave him, a lawn mower, and a few dollars, Sky then departed. He was very happy and said that I made his day. I tell you; Sky made my day.
Everything I did was an effort to demonstrate the love of God, to lead him
to the knowledge of Jesus Christ as his savior. With words yes, but words
accompanied by deeds.
Before he left, I informed Sky that 'our meeting was no accident but a Divine Appointment'. I encouraged Sky and prayed with him. Among other things, I remember praying that God would resurrect Sky to a new life and allow good things to happen to him. My last words to Sky? "God loves you".
010722PSCtest, A Strand (1047), Brian Strand
2nd contest entry: 081322, Your Second Chance 1ST Poetry Contest
Sotto Poet
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. - J. B. Priestley
After the sun rises, gentling the morning,
Beautiful light in the sky, hope is dawning.
Captive of the joy, such peaceful wonder,
Destined to breathe feelings who believe.
Endless pieces of sunrise rests on the hills,
Fading beneath the skies in sensitive azure.
Glorious sight promising the heart a psalm.
Hastening to kindle faith, fealty is the way.
Inspirations welcome the soul to shine,
Just when I thought I’d lost, I knew I’d prevailed.
Keep the door open to your heart, always,
Listen to the breathless promise of lasting love.
Maybe it comes at dawn, maybe at twilight.
Never give up on the faith that reassures you.
Open your heart to the love that kindles a flame,
Praying for the dawn’s sweet touch, a distant grace.
Quiet your fears with the surety that love will win.
Right every wrong with kindness’ tender pining.
Serenity comes to the soul who knows the dawn,
Tempts the spirit, warming the heart with empathy.
Understand that this life will sometimes bring pain.
Valuable lessons are learned when the heart breaks.
Wherever you go, remember that love is the answer.
Xray your reasons and know, in all seasons, morning comes.
Yesterday has gone, so don’t stay in the past.
Zany as life can be, each new morning you’ll have a second chance!