Poetry

If I’m being honest

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I’m still fighting to be a better me, but I’m letting God take most of the load.

As I sit in peace and slowly smile again, my life begins to fall back to the ground in one piece again.

For the last couple of days, I felt like I was an ocean apart from my thoughts and feelings.

And I had to stop and pray and reflect and pray more.

When it was all said and done, I felt not alone and wrapped in God’s love and presence.

And no doubt or desperation was eating at my soul.

I knew what I needed to do, and in that moment, was to trust my Savior and see this month of October would be a good one full of hope and growth.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2023 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Like the

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Moon, sometimes I hide behind things in hopes of being unseen.

But sometimes, being something or someone different makes you stand out even when all you want to do is hide.

Too much attention can become too many demands, and expectations may lead to procrastination.

As you can’t keep up with being all or nothing and feeling like you failed sucks, you are looked at as something great, but you feel less than fabulous all the time.

And the expectations that you want for yourself are now impossible to contain, and your dream is gone like the moon on a cloudy day.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2022 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Thinking

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I knew what was to come

was a foolish move for me.

For this situation is unknown for me

for every step is a surprise and I’m worried

I might get carried away to a place of unknown

And I’m not sure I’m okay with that but only time will tell.

What will be the outcome but I’m not putting too many of my eggs

in this basket for life is just so unpredicted especially when it comes to my luck or well my lack of luck.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyrighted ©️ 2020 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I needed

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This moment to appreciate all I have and may get later.

Tired is my body and hungry is my soul.

I crave the words that come from stories and books.

I crave the sound of music and can’t wait to hear the beat.

The words that stay with me forever.

I crave the sleep that I will gain once I lay down in bed.

I appreciate the one that helps me through it all and not just for today.

I know I’m ready to be near him and to know this struggle was worth it for I am worth it.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2020 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Yes it

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is another day in this place

is it going to be great I doubt it.

But here I stand trying to make things right.

I know that I’m doing what I need to do because I have always put others first.

But as the new year quickly approaches I’m really gonna focus on myself and worry about others later when I have accomplish what I want to accomplish in my life for the time I need to get it done is not guaranteed for me.

I know right now I am here and in this moment I am focusing on what makes me, me and worrying about everything else later.

For a time for rest is now for I’ve been busy lately trying to forget and to get lost in almost everything so I don’t have to face the truth that’s been eating me up inside for quite some time now.

Maybe one day I’ll let it all out but for now only a little at a time will I cry and scream for the release I truly need to be at peace with myself.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

That feeling

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Is growing strongly

Inside of me and yet.

I still don’t know what to do about it but it leaves me feeling somewhat empty.

I don’t know what it will take to fill this

hole up.

But it comes and goes as I realize I have a content life for the most part.

But I know there is so much more for me to do and yet the only in my way right now is myself.

Maybe soon I will step out of my own way and make room for something new.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2019 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

As

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the day comes to an end so does all the emotions that have been flowing through me all day. 

Every little thing slowly affecting me in a way it felt as if it wasn’t me who was going through it all.

But a stranger, and the question that kept popping in my head was why me and why today.

Everything coming pouring out and I haven’t felt the same and I don’t know if I am okay. 

Or if this was all the things I’ve been keep inside that decided that today was the day to let it out and let me face what has been bothering me all this time and that it’s okay to cry it out. 

For once its all gone things with start to look up again but a little change will go a long way. 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I have

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my moments when everything becomes so relatable

that the simple things can bring up emotions.

And I’m not afraid to show them and process them as they come and go.

And sometimes the emotions come so quickly they can’t be experienced in the privacy of my own space.

But, that’s life for you and sometimes we have to express ourselves even in our weakness moments that don’t feel like something we want to experience or explore in that moment.

It’s time to let it all out and hope that the strength that I am looking for will come again so that I can fight through this process but, at the same time not take this time for granted for it is something I need to do.

To move on from this side of the road for there is another crossroad I need to meet at and this time I may not go right but,  I know that I won’t be going back either.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I just

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want to let go of all the frustration go because I’m tired of being mad and unsatisfied by the things that this life has been throwing my way.

I don’t want to be bothered with and so I start to distance myself for I just want to survive but, I don’t want to be involved anymore.

I’m here in this place with you but, I’m not going to keep giving myself because well I’m done and I don’t care anymore.

I know that now I just see what this really is now and I won’t sink anymore for I’m not about to save them all when in the end I’m just losing myself.

No one wants or needs to be saved at this time and even if I try which I have, it just comes back around as a failed attempt.

I’m done jumping through the many hops to only not please myself but no one else either.

I have learned that giving too much just ends up with you begging for some help when all your lifeboats are gone and there is no one around to save you.

Because they didn’t care in the first place to make sure you had a way out, you were dispensable and they had no desire to keep you around.

You were used up and washed out and well now you didn’t look like someone they needed to depend on, for there is always someone better just waiting for you to drop the ball.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Is it true

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the words that flow out of you are they about me.

And if so, were you ever going to tell me the truth

or was I supposed to figure it out on my own.

Did you think I would ever be found out?

Or were you hoping I never read your words you wrote that night, the words that would tear us apart.

The words that made it hard for me to go home that night, knowing you were there, pretending to be happy to see me.

The memories of the days flash back in my head as I try to see the sadness behind the smiles that you awarded me with every time I walked through that door.

The hugs you greeted me with, the kisses, the words you spoke to me

were they all lies too and when did it end for you and when was I to know your plan that it would soon be coming crashing down all around me.

The path I once thought was my end result now is blocked off with the words Impossible, don’t try to fix it for it is too late now.

Time to face the truth and call you out on it and then accept that this journey is over and the next one has just begun.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

How many poems

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do I need to write to get your attention

for I don’t know how much creativity is left in me right now.

I may have to take a break and come back to write something that will finally catch your eye.

I’m trying to be who you need me to be right now but, how can I be when the hope and magic that once put a fire under me that burned to strong.

Nothing could stop me from writing for my fingers just needed to type or write on a piece of paper.

And now the thoughts don’t come out or my fingers just don’t feel inspired anymore and even when I do write something good the flow just doesn’t continue on.

It ends with that piece and the next time I think of writing it just feels like I’m poking at a fire that has been gone out in the hopes that it will start-up again.

And the writing and the feeling inside of me will feel the same again and all my work and hopes won’t be so discouraged.

But, every time things slow do that feeling of dread comes over me and I just can’t seem to go on but yet I sit here knowing I’m beyond tired but yet my body and soul has yet to give up even when I know it’s time for me to move forward.

It’s time for me to finally rest my eyes and sleep a little longer for its time to stop fighting and just give up.

The tears will stop falling and I will slowly become strong and closed off again but, right the feeling of being alone doesn’t bother me as much as it used too.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Only

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I can see the change in myself.

Everyone else sees nothing

questions nothing

Worries about everything but the issue around me.

So much going on no one to tell

and that’s okay for I only have just one thing to tell

and the fact is you won’t be the one to hear it.

Maybe no one will hear it

and it will just disappear with me.

As I become something new and the old me

will be forgotten and all the memories will be gone too.

Only if you just took a moment and open your eyes, your mind, and your ears

and listen to what I have to say.

I’ll leave it all on a voice mail and I know you won’t listen to it until it’s too late

for the number you have reached has been disconnected.

And everywhere you look there will be no trace of me the girl you used to know

the one who was there but you always looked past for there were others that seem to

take in everything better than her.

She waited and waited and finally knew there really was nothing to hold on to anymore

and just like that you decide it’s time to come back.

But, this time she is gone not even a crumble of food to trace her with.

No finger prints left on any of the furniture left behind

it’s like she vanished but really she was erased from your life

the memories of her slowly fade from your mind.

Until one day when you hear the sound of a girls voice and your ears puck up and, you swear it’s her that you hear.

But, when your head turns and your eyes land on the girl, it’s not her and the empty place in your heart that you thought closed up for good.

Just rips right open and pain hits you, like a knife to the heart

you feel like your can’t breath and your life is slowing pouring out of you.

As you slowly take a breath you realize for the first time what you truly lost that day

so long ago.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Better

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I want better for right now I feel so hollow

and this hole called my life is just growing

so deep.

I don’t know how or if  I want to crawl out of this dark place

for in the light I see the truth and truth is I’m alone and no one is looking for me.

The answers are not ending up to something great

so I rather just sit here in the dark with all the unknown

pieces of my life.

At least in the dark I am able to hide from the reality of what my life is now

a life I didn’t think would be for me but I just have to keep moving for standing still isn’t an option for me.

I can’t sit around being depressed and feeling down all the time for I have things to do and  I want and need better for me.

So I move forward even though the hollowness of my life is not fun I know that things will get better.

I just have to have a little faith that the better moments and the joy I used to love will come back in a better light that I can live with.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Better

Poetry

I know

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I control my thoughts

but sometimes they just get the best of me.

Turning everything I touch turn into a disaster

and all of it goes up in flames.

I have no one to blame but myself

and the dislike is so strong that I can’t hide from it this time.

The days go by and time is lost as I wonder what I can do to stop

this cycle of happening again.

I’m not the best at keeping change for somehow the past mistakes

sneak back into me like a snake and the bite is always so poisons that

the results are always a loss.

I’ve tried to stop myself before the damage is done but somehow I always

let it out in the end and I floats through the air traveling fast to get to its victim.

And at the time it feels like it needed to get out and maybe it did in a better light or a different day or time.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

It just

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slipped out my mouth and the results felt

like a car crash.

everything around me felt like slow motion

then the impact was so rough.

As you were thrown around by my words

cutting right into your heart.

And even though I was hurting to the look on your face

just haunts me and even though I know I was wrong.

I just can’t find the words to apologies to you right now because

I don’t know if I’m worthy of coming back into your life right now or ever.

Maybe the way I handled things was not the right way to do it but I can’t go back and take it back.

The words somewhat thought out but not yet processed the way they should have been now has me second guessing everything.

Maybe, I don’t deserve your forgiveness and maybe this will be the lesson that sticks in my mind and my heart.

And maybe I’ll finally stop making the same mistakes and just keep it to myself until I’m truly sure it’s what I want to say to you.

Because, my last words should be so true that I don’t regret a single word at the end of the day.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes