You test me with your words as you
Try to catch me off guard.
As time goes on I forget that I need to stay alert when I comes to you.
When I least expect it you crawl out and snake around my legs and I fall
Again for your trick and I failed again for you won’t let me get to the end.
Maybe I won’t ever pass your test but maybe that’s the way you wanted it all along.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Said I would be able to amount to something great if I just stuck to the plan.
But, whose plan am I to follow when God takes me from a path of no hope and nothing but disappointment and lack of faith in him and myself.
Which left me empty and alone with no light to guide me out of this darkness because, I wanted to believe that we had the same dreams and goals so it would workout for me too.
But, God had other plans for me and only I understand for your still fighting me on how I live my life.
Yet, in the end I will be happy and satisfied and you will still be wonder why didn’t crash and burn.
The truth is you’re not suppose to know all the answer for my life and I know you care but its time to let go and let God take care of me.
For my story is already written and I’m ready to live it out no matter where it leads me because so far the downs have helped me grow.
The ups are telling and showing me to trust and the answer will come for the results are more than I could ever hope for.
My dreams have changed and I’m not the girl you knew three years ago, my story has changed and I’m so grateful for I’m living the life meant for me,and me only.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Her facade was beautiful but the truth of who she was
In the inside was nothing close to beautiful.
But she used her looks to get people to like her but her words
Would burn them up so fast.
They couldn’t prepare themselves for the pain that was so strong
It felt like they were burning alive and no matter if they screamed for help no one ever came.
And as she walked away from the ashes of who they used to be she would smile and start to sing a song, drawing in people to her like moth to flames
At first she seems like a beautiful rose you want to smell and carry with you everywhere you go.
But then her thorns come out and you are being pricked from all sides, no part of you is left without feeling pain.
You try to run away but you hit a wall that wasn’t there a minute ago, trapped like a helpless fly in a window screen.
You start to cry and wish you didn’t think the most beautiful things were the sweetest of all and you want to stop judging a person by looks.
And maybe if you survive her evil torture, you won’t make the same mistake again.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
I didn’t want to face the facts that I don’t agree on
Anything with you anymore.
The simple things that used to make me laugh every time you said it now just piss me off.
How did it come to this when it seemed like yesterday that we were getting along and smiling and laughing for real
Now it feels like you burned all the bridges to fix everything and brining us together is impossible.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Just who you are my shining star
You light up the sky when it’s so dark.
They say you’re not like the others for you
shine so bright that even in the daylight your light
stays on.
People are in awe of you and want to know why you’re so different and,
some call you a freak and want nothing to do with you.
They say what your able to do is impossible and that you shouldn’t be
allowed to be so great at everything.
You love to do backflips and jump and when it’s night-time you like take long walks for
you’re not afraid of the dark.
The night is your best friend and you feel at home when all the lights are out and you shine and shine and no one can take their eyes off of you for your best thing around.
No storm can make me scared when you’re around for the light in you will not go out and so the darkness will not ever be around.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Unfinished Business
Unfinished words not yet spoken.
As time goes by I don’t know if I will ever get the chance to say this to you
and I try daily to just tell you and to just finish this now.
But the words unsaid just feel so much better left inside my head
yet some days the words just want to pour out so I write them down.
And every day I add more and more to what I have to say to you, I have ten pages and yet
I still feel like I have much to say to you.
Will this weight ever just be off my shoulders and will it ever just make sense and will the day come that I put these pages together and send it off to you.
So that one day you will go get your mail and there my letter will be and you will read it all and then maybe I will get a call.
But, for now I guess there will be these unfinished words that need to be said in order for our present to move on and for the future to be able to change for the better.
And not just for me but for you too.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
I’m stuck on this rock and I have only two choices
And that is set into the nasty unknown water to get to
The other side.
Or hop on to one rock at a time and be fast enough that nothing
In the water gets me.
No choice sounds good for me and so I stand here wondering if I ever
Will get to the other side.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
To smile, to lie
Too pretend
it really isn’t worth it
when it only lasts a night, a moment.
Am I wasting my time
when I try to pretend so
I can fit in with you or I pretend
so you don’t see what’s really going on.
This isn’t a play that ends with the curtains closing and
only to come back open with everyone bowing and the audience applauding.
The end results won’t be something you cheer for, for pretending hasn’t led me
to success.
Just the feeling of failure and maybe there isn’t time to clean up the mess I’ve made, if
only I hadn’t pretended and just showed who I truly am from the beginning.
There wouldn’t be so much tears or pain, that I can’t seem to wash away the darkness that has swallow me up for pretending wasn’t supposed to be a game.
That ended with no happy ending for when the credits rolled and the screen went black and as the lights came on in the theater of my life.
Every seat was empty with no trace of anyone ever being around.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Time flies by and you don’t want to worry
that nothing has gotten done.
Because you fell asleep and no matter how many times
you open your eyes, you still don’t want to get up and get started.
The day is mostly gone and you just sit there wondering what
you could have done better.
But what’s the point of panicking now when you could just go back to bed
and maybe tomorrow when you get up you can finish it then.
So morning comes and your alarm goes off and your out of bed so fast
you don’t even look to see what time it is, because you don’t have a second
to spare.
So you race around getting everything put together and an hour later your all done
and as you take a breath.
The panic feeling slowly goes away for you got it all done with hours to spare, for you set your alarm for five am and you didn’t have to get up until seven am.
The panic of leaving it to the last-minute wins out again and as you go back to bed with a smile on your face.
You sleep until it’s 9am and you leave on time for the surprise party you didn’t even know was planned all along just for you.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
She was so ready to give up more of her time
just so he could rest for once.
They had the day off and thought of all the fun things they could do once he woke up.
She took the dog out and did all the things on her to do list and his as well.
she was happy to help out and didn’t think of all the things she may be missing out on.
For her heart was too big to be so selfish when he work so hard at a job he loved and finally got.
So picking up his task around the house was a joy for her when she saw him come home with a smile on his face.
She would give up so much more if she could just to see that smile 100 times a day.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
I jumped at the opportunity without thinking
or looking at where I might end up landing.
In a ditch or hole and be stuck there for a long time.
But, I refused to be stuck in a place or feeling because I didn’t want to see that red flags weren’t there the whole time.
I jumped with my heart and landing with my mind as I opened my eyes to the truth.
The jump was not the end to my hopeless romantic ways but beginning to a new way of seeing things for what or who they are.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
She was the stylish little diva with the cutest smile.
But, don’t let her cuteness fool you for she will read your outfit in a minute.
And give you the best advice you ever could have
Making you think if that little girl can show me how to see the beauty inside of me.
Why is it so hard for me to see and show myself the love of style I want and surely need.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
The silence between us is deafening
not even a pen dropping or door shutting
can make words come out our mouth.
And I can’t help but wonder where all the words went.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Dealing with you is like a long hike
up a mountain.
Going up it at first is easy and breezy then
it begins to become a struggle to get to the top.
You become out of breath and a bottle of water is needed.
But even than you don’t become easy to go on and, many times I just want to give up and turn back.
Yet, the view from the top is what I’ve been looking forward to so I continue and once at the top the view is amazing.
But once the amazing feeling wears off, I’m not sure I’d make the climb again.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
She was a passionate women the way she
moved her body and the way he moved his hands.
You could tell she loved to dance and he loved to paint her dancing.
The two artists were so connected it was so easy for him to be able to capture her movements on paper over and over again.
They never let anyone tell them they were not good enough, because their passion for what they did was so strong.
The words didn’t hurt them for they never had a chance to slap them in the face and make them doubt who they were.
For they always knew what they were meant to be and what to do with the talent they were so passionately about.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
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