Poetry

Something

Has to give

As the days

Keep going by

and the desire to return

Is growing thinner each time.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyrighted ©️ 2020 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

In The

Three Line Tales 245

three line tales, week 45: a black silhouette in front of a fountain at night
photo by Zac Ong via Unsplash

dark you see the shadow of me, the one who keeps walking on this path at night alone with only your light to guide me.

I know that some think my path is more full of light and maybe it is but the darkness is still there waiting for its turn to come.

So it can swallow me up and leave nothing behind of the person you all once knew.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyrighted ©️ 2020 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

This time

Photo by Rodolfo Sanches Carvalho on Unsplash

will be different as I lay here trying to relax for it’s been a long time since

I haven’t been stressed about all the things that need to be done.

I know what day it is and how many days I have left to get it done but that doesn’t make it easier.

I sleep so peacefully but when I’m awake so much is going on that the thought of just laying down and mediating or just being one with nature.

Seems so hard to do these days, but I know I have to slow down and do something about this or I may just have a melt down.

So as I breathe in and out right now I finally feel the tension fade from my shoulders and I drift off to sleep.

As peace finally finds me and brings so much joy my way again.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyrighted ©️ 2020 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Late

In the night

I sit waiting for the words to come.

Feeling relax for once as it has been stressful.

For too long that I didn’t know how to be at peace and still be doing.

What I love to do and feeling complete too.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyrighted ©️ 2020 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Do I wonder

If this how things will be

Or do I live my life and things will play out the way it’s suppose to be?

So many what if’s and what now that I’m not sure what to do next.

It’s kind of stressful trying to find my way around everything.

That a sense of giving up just creeps in and well I sometimes consider it.

But I know if I don’t at least try then what was the point of going through all of this.

Change is here and I won’t sit by and just let it walk by again and again for then I will be the reason I am not happy and that is not acceptable to me.

When this is one thing in life I can control.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyrighted ©️ 2020 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Road trips

100 Word Wednesday: 169

Image by Bikurgurl

used to be the thing.

Now its like you have to be cautious

to where you can go and where you can’t.

Life is like a maze and ending up in the wrong corner

could be life or death.

You know that there are places you want to see but is this the time to see them?

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyrighted ©️ 2020 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Does anything

100 Word Wednesday: 168

Image by Heather Mount

really even matter anymore

when it feels like no matter how safe you try to be things can still get you.

That no matter how you tell people do not do that

That they do it anyways.

Life is what you make of it and we are all born and we will all die.

But, what we make of our time here on earth is what matters.

But lately how can one go about doing that when people make life seem like a party

and in having fun you are endangering the ones you love.

For the sake of having a good time but will it matter that you had fun if you kill all those that loved and trusted you.

Will it matter that you can say this year wasn’t a complete waste because you enjoyed the dangers and came out of it but, did the other people around you come out of it too?

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyrighted ©️ 2020 By Deirdre Stokes

( I pretty sure this is over 100 words but it was such a good prompt I couldn’t help myself!)

Poetry

Just a

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fall day with just enough coldness that I need an hat.

And it feels so good to be out on a cold day as I stay and watch the sun rise.

Welcoming a new day

A new opportunity to this life.

My options are expanding and I don’t know what will be waiting for me at the next corner of this life.

But I’m ready for whatever comes my way as I head into a journey I have not experienced yet.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyrighted ©️ 2020 By Deirdre Stokes