Poetry

Together

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We out shine the darkness around us

even on the hottest days when we can’t seem to cool off.

The days when everything feels against us and we don’t know who is standing by us anymore.

The words said by the people we trusted aren’t as true as they used to be.

Standing on the outside looking in is how we feel sometimes but we know the light will outshine the darkness in the end.

We know together our light is the way for us and  together we will stay strong and loyal.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

 

 

 

 

Poetry

I see

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you even when you don’t want to be seen.

I know that you work hard because you don’t want to be in this situation for too long.

I know that you are someone who is beautiful from the inside and out and you don’t try too hard to let who you are shine to brightly.

You know that you are worthy of the time you give and the skills you have to offer.

But, still the days and weeks seem so unbearable when you are stuck in something that seems ridiculous.

Only when you realize that being seen isn’t so bad will you truly shine and out do the things you thought you couldn’t outrun.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I wasn’t

kidding anyone as I sit here trying to figure out what to say again.

Everything  feels so different and strange as if I was a way more longer than I was.

I feel out of sync with everything and everyone and I don’t know how to jump back into the things that felt frustrating in the first place.

How do I find my way out of this space that just seems to swallow me up and take away the joy that always seemed to come when I am free from the stress and people.

The life that seems good until you put the stress and decision back into the equation and everything becomes more planned and still unorganized.

 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

So

Far away that it just

not on my mind right now.

I know that I only have four days  left

before reality kicks in and I go back to

doing not what I don’t love to do for doing what I love is too much to handle right now.

If only all the answers I was looking for would be answered before my world turns back into a mess at midnight on Monday.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Do we

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Always jump at every opportunity that is thrown at us.

Or do we take the time to think about it because at the end of the day we have to live with the decision we have made?

Do we try to just fit in just to get by because we don’t want to be an outsider?

But how long do we wait around pretending to be like everyone else?

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I want

to say that lately, things have been different.

As my plans have become no plans and just basically going with the flow.

The words are harder to find as my mind just wants to not think.

To relax and not stay busy is all I wish because I’ve spent too many times staying busy.

To avoid the truth of how I feel about you or about them or about my life in general.

So it’s time to stop staying busy for there will always be that time when everything slows down and you break down.

For no matter how hard I try to hide there will be a time that you find me and help define me.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes