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Greg Sykes Poem
Integrate Integrity
I am learning to lead by example, what does that mean to me?
It has to encompass integrating integrity.
For what I admire in others, I need to internalize.
I want to feel no shame when I see myself through God’s eyes.
I was raised to recognize wrong and right.
I justified my actions through lies and deceit.
At the end it was my own suffering that made me realize, I had to admit defeat.
Along my descent I lost my integrity.
I was aghast at what had become acceptable to me.
I crossed many lines and thought I did not need to have any boundaries.
My lack of integrity, helped to bring me to my knees.
I did many things I said I would never do.
The most devastating lie I told, was not the lies I told you.
It was the lies I told myself that was once what I came to believe;
Until I was granted a reprieve.
In spite of the things I did to others and to me.
I must incorporate into my spirit, the definition of integrity:
adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
Integrity has to be imbedded into the very soul of me.
I thought I could make up and live by my own set of rules.
I thought I was the captain of the ship, but realize I was just a passenger on a ship
of fools.
No longer do I choose to build spiritual or emotional prisons.
When I did not practice integrity based decisions.
I heightened and strengthened the prison walls with my own guilt and shame.
Blaming others, because I refused to take the blame.
Until all that I could see;
Was my lack of integrity.
I willingly compromised my very soul.
There is no wonder why, I could not feel whole.
Today I am setting a goal that I must practice everyday.
Integrating integrity into my life; is the only way.
That I will live a life full of joy and serenity.
It is time to live my life fueled by the integration of spiritual and moral integrity.
Written by Greg Sykes
June 20, 2011
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Greg Sykes Poem
Love - My Broken Glass
Love shattered me, leaving my soul empty
Like broken and shattered glass
Heart, in pieces
Cold tears falling down my face
To become frozen crystals, shimmering on my cheeks
Reflecting and deflecting my pain
That is radiating, pulsating and it wants to rush out!
Love - its my broken glass
Forever shall not mend the shattered pieces
Shrill, stifled cries in my pillow I weep
This pain I shall keep, eternally, internally
I shall sweep up the pieces of my broken glass and stain it
Beautiful colors and...
Fashion it into a giant window
To look at the world through
So I can see, beauty, yet again
Gregory Allen Sykes
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Greg Sykes Poem
Stifling of my Tears
Through the pain of the years.
In the face of my darkest fears.
A thousand times I wanted to cry.
Afraid of allowing something as simple as drops of water to escape from my eyes.
Afraid of what others would think of me.
The showing of my real emotions, meant exposing my vulnerability.
I dare not cry.
The stifling of my tears was the only thing I thought I should try.
Because, if you saw me crying, you would think that I was weak.
I was afraid if I cried, I would not be able to speak.
I thought and I thought, then I thought some more.
I tried in vain not to open the door.
It was not a door, it was a vast floodgate.
Quickly, I tried to hide, but I was too late.
All the pain I held onto, through all the years.
Came spilling down my face through my tears
The stifling of my tears, I could no longer do.
I wanted to pray, but back then I did not know who or what I was praying to.
My Mama said, no man is measured by the amount of water that escapes from his eyes.
Then I was able to find the freedom, not to stifle my cries.
I was allowed to endure the pain through all the years.
Now I can release the pain, because I no longer stifle my tears.
Written By Greg Sykes
August 6, 2011
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Greg Sykes Poem
I Found God in My Yesterdays
Seeking to talk to God through my childhood dreams.
No longer wanting to stifle the screams.
The painful memories are gone away.
I found God in my yesterdays.
Through the tumultuous times and the happiness.
I no longer am filled with emptiness.
I found God in my yesterdays.
See I thought God ignored me and no longer cared.
I cried out all those many nights that I was too scared
To walk alone
When the pain of failing became too much for my heart to bear.
I turned towards God and I felt God there.
I found God in my yesterdays
I saw my own past as bittersweet.
Thinking I was in control because I was sitting in the driver’s seat.
Yet, God is who was guiding me
Even though I could not see.
I tried to hide my pain behind my silent tears
I tried to mask all of my fears.
I felt you had abandoned me
I found God in all my yesterdays.
I see God working now, in so many ways.
God wakes me up to greet a new day.
God never walked away.
God was always guiding me.
Written by Greg Sykes – July 2, 2011
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