Poetry

Should I accept

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Rock bottom and stay down

When life keeps stressing me out

Or should I rest and get back up

Because the sun is going to shine tomorrow, and so should I.

Like the dark clouds on a stormy day, I’ve been moving through life being present.

But have you seen me because I’ve just been blending in to get by day and night?

But now, as a new storm brews in, I’m ready to be the rainbow you see at the end.

Only time will continue to heal my wounds, and I know I’ve so much more to share beyond the dark clouds in life.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2025 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I am

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Here breathing in oxygen I need

Oh how I crave energy to get up but

My lack of sleep has kept me at the limits of not enough today or yesterday.

Oh how I drive to just be one with myself to feel connected to all that I am again.

I want to be in my body, but I feel like grasping at the things around me, searching for more than I know, and hoping to find everything I need.

Such a battle I am in, and maybe today I will feel the hope of knowing I won’t be stuck like this forever.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2024 By Deirdre Stokes

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

My mind

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It is full of thoughts and words, but for who?

And how do I get them out even though the feeling fills me?

I want to spill my guts, but the words aren’t even forming a sentence; just that I need to get it out.

Or the happiness and uncertainty could swallow me whole, and I don’t know what to do it does?

I should wait for God to help me lay it out for that person.

And right now, I feel your arms around me as peace comes over me, and I get ready to relax for the night, for it has been a long day.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2023 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Like the storm

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Raging outside I want to be someone you remember.

I want to step into your life like a storm that blows out all the things you thought you knew.

I want to brighten up all the darkness and anger in your life.

I want you to smile and embrace me as I deliver you from the hell you grew used to.

And I want to walk you into a life that feels like heaven, and sometimes it will rain, but letting it all out is the only way to survive this life I see us in.

So please give me a chance, and I promise I won’t hurt you, and when I give up, you will know I gave my all, for it is not easy for me to wave my white flag.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2023 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Making connections

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It’s the way we were made

And sometimes, it can be wonderful to laugh and talk with people who relate to you.

To have an unexpected connection is excellent as you get to know someone you didn’t think you would end up bonding with.

The feeling of being happy to see them

And knowing that feeling is mutual

And connecting and still not agreeing on the same things but still coming back and talking some more.

Sometimes, heads are butted, and we feel unheard or dismissed, but sometimes, we get in our feelings because it’s harder to trust and keep friends at some point in life.

So authentic connections sometimes are rare, and when you find one, you want to hold on for dear life for you get to the point where you see through the people who are nice to you to know your business and then toss you to the side when they feel better comes along.

We still crave connection, but we become more guarded sometimes; we throw it all to the wind and let fate and destiny take the wheel as we risk putting ourselves out there. Sometimes, it pays off, and your fairytale friendship is born.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2023 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Getting Lost in excellent music like “To be loved” by Adele

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You feel the connection of her uncertainty and pain as if it’s my own.

Like reading a good book or watching a good movie, the emotions, and feelings take you on your own experience.

And the tears that fall are like those they felt when creating what you now love to listen to or read.

Walking away when the song ends is so easy for us, but for them, that’s their memories, and walking away ain’t so easy.

To be an artist is sometimes hard as this feeling of a need to write is there, but the words are not forming yet, so you wait for them to come in their time.

So the days of no words come and go until you can’t stop the flow of words hitting the paper like never before.

A piece that is not only connected to you but to everyone that reads it.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2023 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Do I wonder

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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

I was

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Always the quiet one

Where you had so much confidence and was not afraid to voice your opinion.

But we both have great smiles that light up a room and warm the hearts around us.

We both care

And where you are slow to anger

I am quick like a forest fire and sometimes containing me is near impossible.

But, somehow with just a simple word here and there.

You calm me like still water after a storm.

I could be mad at you but every time it fades away the moment you smile or look my way.

We’re so different but so much alike that some times it’s hard to read between the lines.

When it comes to you and me.

What will we become?

Maybe it’s best to not know for now and let faith and fate guide our way.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2020 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Jiffy

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I knew talking him would just be a minute of his time for he was always so busy

and the time he had to give out was growing fewer these days.

I quickly said hello and then spilled out everything that I had felt and had gone through  these past couple of days.

And then like lightning you were gone off to tend to the list of responsibilities you had to get done.

And in the moment I hoped you’d  come back later and say something, as the day went on I tried to keep you off my mind as much as possible.

I soon lost myself in a book while listening to some music and didn’t hear you knocking on my door.

It wasn’t until my phone lite up and your name was on my scene did I pause my music and answered my phone.

You asked if I was home and I said yes, you said then open the door please and I smiled knowing you would show up tonight.

We talked as the night faded away into the morning and until we just fall asleep, the next morning I woke up and you were still around and I feared you were late for something.

So I woke you and you smiled at me and wrapped me in your arms, I leaned into you and asked if you had to be somewhere and I didn’t mean to make you over-sleep.

You smiled and said there was no place you needed to be then right here with me and that everything else could wait.

For today was ours to enjoy and explore and remember and cherish for a lifetime.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Jiffy

 

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

Feeling

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so much that my heart is breaking as

I see it all crashing down.

No matter how much time I try to put in between me and you

the end result is not going to look good for us.

I know the pain is eating me up inside but I just can’t bring myself

to say the final goodbye.

I don’t want to put a day or time on when my world will fall apart

I can already feel the tears falling down my face and my heart just turning

so cold and me becoming the shadow of who I used to be.

My smile becoming harder to fake as life throws me nothing but curves my way

I try to gain more strength and be strong and not fall apart this time but it’s not working out that way.

But, I just don’t know what to say to you and yet I know soon we are going to fade from each other life and maybe this time we won’t get a third chance to connect again.

All I know is I miss you and maybe things don’t have to end but talking just doesn’t seem like something we will be doing soon.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I just

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got these feelings and no amount of time away

is going to make them stop growing.

A lifetime of feelings for people who may not

care anymore.

For those who don’t know that I ever existed for

I’m just another person walking in the crowd

Another mouth to feed.

Another life to save with words or with God

To do better for me or for you.

To put him before you and anyone else

To tell you that you are not a priority in my life.

To live life knowing what is going to happen or to

wonder what possibly could happen next and that it can’t out do what just happened.

So many emotions playing out as I listen to this song, relatable to my life right now or how can someone go through that.

It would be so painful and confusing and hopeless in the end.

But, they went through it just to get to the other side of their life

and to see the world they love in another point of view.

The future I thought, u thought was going to be it for me or for you

is not the one we are destined to live out.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Every

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time the day wines down and it’s time to lay my head on my pillow

you pop into my mind and so much peace just falls over me.

Your more important to me then you will ever know and I don’t know

if you ever found out would you understand.

Or would you take it the wrong way and would things turn

so awkward.

I don’t want to lose you so I keep a lot to  myself just to keep the peace between us

for I don’t want to fight with you anymore.

I just want to spend the time I have left with you on a good note for I’m not promised tomorrow and so I Just want this moment I have with you to be amazing.

So when I’m gone that memory would be so strong that even when you think you have forgotten it comes back so strong that you think it happened just yesterday.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry

Things

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are changing and I have no control of them

as feelings and emotions over pour over me.

I don’t know if I can fight to the top or will

I drown it all and will anyone even notice the change in me.

I’ve grown to be so good at pretending that it’s probably

too hard for you tell I’m not okay and I’m fighting everyday just to be sane.

What will it take for things to get under control or will this be who I am all the time

Over emotional and not quite sure what is going on around me.

I’m in a maze called life and I just can’t seem to find my way out

and I’m running out of energy and the exit is nowhere to be found.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes