Peace is how we wish to live,
But often we take and never give.
How many times have you hurt
someone?
Lies, pride, reasons why justice
never won.
The price never rewards the cost,
Of those that leave you alone and
lost.
Mending the broken is another form
to atone,
Among the ways to our heavenly
home.
Why are we so broken and weak,
Compared to he who gave his other
check.
Do you live by the Word or by this
world?
Tangled by the webs we have
whirled,
How much must be learned or be
told.
Peir into yourself or your soul
already sold,
Which was never yours but you
seem to believe.
know through life is to honor those
that love thee.
But we bend to our selfish deeds to
over come everyone,
Realize that the prize isn't worth
sacrifice, but boast you won.
Learn so you don't commit the same
offences,
Take note for this may open you to
his life lessons...
Take life in stride
Peaks and valleys as I ventured
Take life in stride
When slipping down, seek the upside
Sell your soul; you’ll be indentured
But heartfelt words can’t be censured
Take life in stride
*Entry for Dr. Ram’s Rondelet Contest
(Correction made thanks to Francine)
I drown in tears I shed for you
You drown in clouds of smoke
I suffer when I look at you
You suffer when you choke
There's pain in every screaming lung
There's sorrow in my heart
For everytime you take a puff
Your breaking it apart
Don't you know your life is changing
With every smoke you get
Your life is getting ever shorter
Just like a cigarette
_Tamara Brown_
Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces
Your cousins and your wife, your nephews and your nieces
Your kids and your grand kids; their elbows and their kneeses
The hugs and kisses they hand out and all their little squeezes
Your pets both big and small; Great Danes or Pekineses
Your triplets and your twins and even Siameses
And all those trips you took in hot times or in freezes
The weather in your life through calm or gentle breezes
And when you hit it big; your name on the marquises
When you were in perfect health and all your coughs and sneezes
If you could do it all again in multiple reprises
You’d find that all these crumbs of life are all that ever pleases
Mike Dailey 6/19/11
Contest: All the Little Pieces 3rd place finish in the contest
Sip that blood .. fill thy melancholic heart
bandage my deep wounds then dig me a grave
may my life begin if I shall depart
for the mortuary life had me enslaved
and my conscious mind cursed his sanity
scattered am I among those frosty dreams
to proceed my road to eternity
and satirize the life I won't redeem
so tolerate my sin .. accept my wrath
for in this perfect world am incomplete
survived by death .. anxious for my last breath
drift in grief as I flip my final sheet
thus I rot shrouded by desperation
till I'm blessed with thy brutal salvation
Once I saw that my life had a purpose
All these brand new feelings came to surface
All these brand new ideas came to mind
The whole time I realize I been blind
The whole time I been missing the sign
That I never realized what was mine
My whole life I been acting like a punk (not a PUNK! as in rock)
Till I reailized that God dont make junk
Everything is how it should be
He gives us potential to live life fully
Please tell me why it takes so long
For us to figure out where we go wrong
But we can figure out what it means
Dont cry theres still time for your dreams
We all have a chance to do our best
But if we fail, you know the rest
Three D’s of life are dreams, desires, and death
If you have the first, the second will come running and
the third will be on your doorstep
Dreams stir up desire and too many desires leads to death of soul
So is it better to dream of life or have a life of dreams ?
To die of desire or to let desires die?
Seems much to me like a paradox of life
Every day is a meal
But when you don't live life to its fullest
Its as if your leaving leftovers of your life
And no one wants leftovers when something new is available,
You'll never get things done
If your life is nothing but "leftovers"
So enjoy today
Ride it out
Don't bite what you can't chew
And leave no leftovers
Written: 2009
to say do away with the evils in life is to be too far disconnected
i say to be strange to facilitate change should have been the thought you selected
for life has its poles that now make up the whole and to cut one side off is insane
to learn to control how we are as a whole is what gives us the ultimate gain
to make things external is truely infernal, and say that the others are wrong
when we all can help with the changing of self, and thru it we all can be strong
until such a time that we all can see crime in the breaking away from the mass
then no new solution can absolution. together we rise or we pass
When does the most powerful moment of your life strike you?
It lands like a ton of bricks in the simplest of times.
It hits you not at that moment, but a moment much later.
True impact strikes so hard that it is only felt after the fact.
A calm after the storm.
The beauty can hardly be seen until after the moment's over.
Because memory often enlivens thoughts of the past.
Even the simplest of moments can later be perceived as the greatest of triumphs.
So when does the most powerful moment of your life strike you?
When you wish you had it back.
Sometimes…
There are events in our lives
That wakes us up
And slaps us in the face
To the facts…
That life is too short
And death so abrupt
Like losing a loved one
Or a spouse in a wreck
That any second chances
Is something we should want to respect?
And live life to its fullest
To forgive and to forget
Is the best lesson I’ve learned
Out of this life yet
I have been to the lowest of lows/the depths of hell with my eyes closed/I have been to
the highest of highs/ but still there is no surprise/unchanged by and by ice/unchanged by
Satan and by Christ/is this a crisis?/I write my thesis/yet there are no answers to my
questions/an life offers me no more lessons/should i rid myself of despair/for I'm broken
beyond repair/though lust or trust satisfy most/i am the demon not the host/I have no
equal/there is no sequel/I am a constant leak/to me there is no link/the truth is life has
no meaning/so live as if you are a king
Little sorrows in life today may piss your mind
but life is not complete without little pains
what is the use of acheiving the costly treasures
if you dont know the value and cost of workmanship...
Times may come when our luck wont support us
as reaping without sowing is aganist the nature
and times may come when seasons of harvest may end
but wise is the man who stores up for the drought...
People speaks of the heavens and its greatness
but its not easy for everyone to become its heir
lucky the man who belives he is a stranger on earth
as his hope is on the land without mournings...
Greed and sensual feelings of a man can neva be controlled
as people are more self-ambitious in the name of dreams
as the world has lost its shame completely and is lustful
so keep ur eyes open and be watchful for the trumphets call...
Same old places,
sad, empty faces
yet another lifetime alone
love is just gone
Downward stares
lonesome and scared
void is all that's left
were life once was kept
Reap my soul before I wake
It's just a joke, it's all fake
Life but a dream, no boat to row
If I could just change the world, more love would show.
Do you understand the reason for this?
Do you think your life is all, but bliss?
Can you hear your heart calling to your mind?
Can you leave all your past fears behind?
Can you live without knowing tomorrow?
Can you believe in yourself now, without feeling hollow?
Can you live your life without hoping for better things?
Did you know you can fly without wings?
Seeing life the way I do
Looking at colours, seeing more than the hue.
Gazing at the stars, I see all eternity
My history, my past, my diversity.
The truth is we all are one
What is done, is done
Forget the future and the past.
Live each day as if it was the last.
Be here, BE right now.
It will be your day soon to take a bow.
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