To take a trip across the world
sometimes requires a passport.
And as one travels it begins to be filled up
with stamps from different places.
Those journeys leaves you with a lifetime
of memories.
And your thoughts of those times always seem to bring a smile to your face.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Is something my body doesn’t seem to have much time to do.
For so many things I’m responsible for that the simple things have to be put on hold.
My body is always on alert mode and there is no time to truly just sit down and relax for there is always a timer ready to go off.
Telling me time is up and I have to keep moving and do more and more until I’m too tired to move or think.
I can’t relax not even for a moment for something might go wrong or get behind.
And I have to stay ahead of the mess not behind it.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
I didn’t know if this was my chance
to make things right.
Or maybe I just wanted to see your face one more time
and that was a chance I was willing to risk.
Even if the end result were you being mad at me for a lifetime.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
I wonder about what happened to you
but I know your future isn’t my concern anymore.
As I move on in the present sometimes you slip back into my mind
as if something just needed me to think about our time together.
But, as quickly as you come you disappear and I’m happy for the past should stay
put away for a reason.
My day is better than it was before and life is so much more simpler
I don’t say the wrong things that much now and I don’t second guess anything.
I listen to my gut and things turn out so much better.
No blinders on as I see everything so clear and I know these years will just grow with more strength and hope and happiness.
Nothing to look back on but the things that made me stronger and everything else just is blur
for I’m living for now and not worrying about the things I could have had or shouldn’t have had at in the first place.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
He barks with authority
to warn all that this is his territory.
His small but strong and determined
to get his message across.
But, in all truth his bark is just for dogs
to humans his just cute and quite the Barker.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
to you with my words and my emotions
being poured on this paper today.
Tomorrow will be a new day for me
and hopefully you will join me on this new adventure.
That may take us both away from the one’s we love just
see what the world has out there for us.
For were stuck here and I don’t want to sink into the quicksand
and be gone with nothing worthy to leave behind.
Together this could just be the moment that defines everything for us
but you just have to have faith and take my hand and trust me.
Jump with me and lets not look back to the things that have not been worth looking back on
in the first place.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
A love potion would it be worth it
how long would it last?
And would the results be worth it?
A mindless lover that just seems to want too much.
Some would think a love potion for it would change everything.
But, what if it just made things worse for they weren’t themselves.
And when it wore off would they still love you or hate you forever.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
my eyes are playing tricks on me
as I see you everywhere I look.
You seem so happy too
but how could that be when your gone.
I hear you call out my name and I swear I see you
smiling back at me.
But I think I’m seeing and hearing the ghost of my past
The past I sometimes regret being apart of.
There isn’t a day that goes by the those days don’t just flash
in front of my eyes as if I’m living that moment again.
And this time I say the words that needs to be said and then like a
ghost you begin to fade away anyway.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
I’m painting this world with purple
it is powerful
it means wisdom
So I use my mind to portray what I can’t say with my words as the paint brush hits the easel.
My creativity is on overload as the day slowly but surely leads to the end and the light will slowly fade.
I’m devoted to my time to pray to feel his peace flow over me when this world wants to stress me out.
I think about the color purple and how it has so many meanings that there isn’t just one meaning to a color people enjoy to wear,to represent.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
to gain from this life
even when were all going in different directions.
The connections that I’m fighting for don’t just end
now even when I’m so alone.
Do I just give up on so much because this path has changed
Or do I just embrace the new change and face my fears head on for once.
Do I just let the things just seem to cut of the words in my throat
win in the end.
Do I just walk away so that my hands never have to shake when my voice shakes.
Do I just not ever look anyone in the eyes again just so the nerves never get me again.
Maybe I could live like this but what life would that be to live this way.
Would I truly be happy in this life where fear is what leads me through my life.
Or Do I just take every punch in life no matter how tough or confusing it gets, my weakness will not make me just walk away from it all.
I’ve come to far to just let it go no matter how easy it would seem to be.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
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