Month: February 2022

Gave you the wrong impression?

I must-have, for you’ve taken my kindness and quietness as a weakness.

But the truth is that is just the way I am, but a lion is quiet as it hunts its prey.

A child is quiet when they are up to no good.

But my kindness is genuine, and if you need me to give it to you up front then it will be done.

And I hope next time you take my kindness and my quietness as a blessing.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2022 By Deirdre Stokes

So hard to root for each other no matter what it is.

Let’s stand there cheering because if it’s something you want, I want to support you.

And there would be no need for you to resent me or feel like no one cares because we would have been rooting each other on the whole time.

Making positive changes together and growing separately but knowing we had someone to cheer us on our darkest days .

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2022 By Deirdre Stokes

I wonder about the things I’m supposedly missing out on and how I don’t feel worried about them.

I don’t think I’ll regret not doing them either, and they only come up when you’re around.

Like your reminding me because I seem behind in life to you, or is it you want me to experience it all.

Even though I probably won’t get to see it all I realize now I should at least do what I want to do and maybe fit them in on the way to my journey of finding more of me.

A path so unknown to me even as I feel I’m going in the right direction, self-doubt is always waiting around a corner to make an announcement that I’m not ready.

But I know now I may not be ready, but God is, and it’s time for me to walk through that door knowing I’m not doing it alone.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2022 By Deirdre Stokes

a valentine when today is just another day that the love of yesterday should be flowning through.

On the path of continued love that lasts longer than the worse storms.

The worthy path of truth and understanding and not about chocolate or flowers or even cards, a passage of time and spending it with the ones that matter no matter what.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2022 By Deirdre Stokes

It Falls in the early morning as everyone around continues to sleep.

With no worry insight as their morning became a little whiter than before.

But the air became a lot colder as you headed out the door for a walk with your dog.

They loved to walk through the snow with no care of its coldness or the balls of snow collecting on his paws.

He created new paths here and there as he marked his territory, Only for the ways to be gone a couple of hours later when all the snow melted away, taking all his evidence away.

Ending this snow day like the rest was a slightly pleasant treat that ended way too soon for some but went away just at the right time for others.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2022 By Deirdre Stokes

To know or feel this way, but nothing in life is simple.

And as I reflect on who I used to be and who I am now.

I have to be honest that I was reckless and clueless in the past.

Looking for so many things in the wrong places and only becoming lost.

That my voice became so silent that even those around me couldn’t pull me to a place of lightness.

But now, my voice is getting stronger as I move forward and find many blessings all around me as my eyes and soul are open, seeing and seeking the goodness around me.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2022 By Deirdre Stokes