Tag: Hope

Poetry

The

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movement of my body as I bend to be come one with the water flowing above me

I am lost in this moment as I sense nothing but the peaceful breeze and sense the calmness all around me.

Everything inside of me that has been building up inside me just growing and intensifying.

As decreased and evaporated from my system as the calm and peace flow into me over and over again like the water above me continues over and over until it too is turned off and let to rest until tomorrow.

I know this moment will not last but the memory of this day will stay with me and remind me when things get tough there will be a break in the storm and until then just breath and enjoy the flow.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I want

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more than what I’m allowing myself to have.

But, yet I’m holding myself back out of fear of the outcome that things may not get better.

But turn for the worst yet maybe I should just take the leap and if I fall.

It will be okay for I will get back up and I will try again for I don’t want to keep living with the what-ifs anymore.

So today I leap and skip my way to something better for if I don’t do it no one will.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Who

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Am I

Lately, I feel so angry

Frustrated and not myself.

But instead, of redeeming myself I just brushed it off and let it go.

Am I becoming like them or am I tired of all the rotating faces around me?

Because of your choices, I’m left to pick up the pieces.

I’m more willing to give it all up than stay and keep fighting a losing battle.

It’s time to think smart and do better for it’s not about them but about me now.

I won’t follow someone who can’t lead themselves in the right direction.

I will make the best decision for me and if it falls apart oh well.

For little while everything would be okay for it will finally be great again.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I wish

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you didn’t need me

So I could run away from this place.

And not worry about the things you do

That drives me insane.

I know you think you are doing the best that you can but the truth is I know you could do better.

I am not some robot that can keep doing it all without taking a break.

Oh how I wish the day you didn’t need me would come soon.

 

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

Ready

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Week 176 of Three Line Tales

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Set aim your arrows at the target of your choice, and fire away and at first, your hands are shaking.

But you get them together as you try again to hit your target and you know that everyone else is trying too.

So do not give up so quickly on what you believe you are capable of doing, for the end goal is for you to be happy with all that you said and done and this target is no different.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

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There

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Is always someone looking out for you because they don’t want you to be stuck like them.

They know how it feels to be stuck in the sand.

To be walking on thin ice.

To be in a situation that doesn’t look like there is a solution to the problem.

Or at least not one you are going to like or willing to do.

They know that you are trying but they want you to speed up the progress so that you can escape to a more affordable place.

Not just cost wise but time and energy and know that this is what you could see yourself doing for the rest of your life.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I know

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that this battle that I’m about to face will not be an easy one.

Every breathe It take will help me get through it.

But, I must keep my mind clear because it’s going to take all of me to get out of this.

I know that the future might be bright but it could all turn for the worst if I don’t  truly believe that it will workout.

I know that just a little doubt can change everything so quickly that I won’t have time to stop it once it all falls apart.

I know what I am capable of doing but, yet I stop myself a million times because I am tired and the fight and  fire in me has burn down that it feels like I’m stuck in one spot.

Until I wake up enough to start  moving in the right directions again and only then will things start to look good again.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

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Exhausted

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by the things that are unfolding around me like night and day.

I know that I should want to do something about it but the truth is I have no fight left in me.

I’m just here to fill the time and the bank account because life seems to come with less free things and everything just seems to add up in the end.

I know that a lot is going right now but, I just need to get away and feel the air and heat and not worry about the time or energy it will take to get up and get around.

It’s time to take care of the things that will make me better and happier in the end.

Time to make the most out of the time that is given to me starting with not just looking out this window but being on the other side and not looking in but walking away and looking at all the things around me while the sun is still out.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

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Blue

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Is what I am wearing all over me

little Flakes of blue

and lately I’m trying so hard not to down in the blues right now.

For I know summer is coming and hope it helps melt the ice that has been around me lately.

Holding me together as my world has become too much and no matter how hard I try to make it to the top their is always someone trying to pull me down.

So I stand here in the blue wondering if this how it’s going to be and will it last longer than I want it too.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Am I

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The one to fall for the foolishness

Because I don’t want to be alone.

Am I to worry about my chances of going down in life because I feel a little old.

Am I to work myself to death because they are losing people left and right.

Am I to make sacrifices in my life so others can be happy around me and I suffer for it.

Am I to give up before the real battle has even begun.

Am I to change what needs to change in order to make the things I need to happen actually happen.

Am I to pray on it and then sit by the side doubting it will happen.

No, I am to believe it will work out and take some steps to help make it happen.

So that I can say we did together for the Lord didn’t make me be lazy but yet hopefully at the same time.

It’s time to say yes I am to do this and let the others figure out their own plan.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

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You

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sometimes just have to smile when you realize that everything is coming together for once.

You know that even if everything falls apart again you still have this moment to look back on and feel at peace.

Because sometimes things get bad but tomorrow will and can be brighter so let it all out today and let tomorrow bloom on it’s own.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

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People

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Need hope

and dreams

and joy to get by in their life.

A lot of times they don’t all come at the same time

and so there is some times that the dream is not hopeful  and so the joy is not seen at all.

But, you don’t give up when things go wrong for the hope that things will turn around give you the strength to keep fighting for your dream.

And the joy will come when you finally get everything to come together and you finally succeed because you didn’t give up when the struggle was continuous.

You had big enough faith to know that it would all work out and your hope for a joyful day was answered and your dream not just a dream but your present and hopefully your future too.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Copyright ©️ 2015 By Deirdre Stokes

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Am

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I to explain myself to you now or later when I’m walking out into the nice weather and moments waiting for me.

Am I to be sad when I have to say good bye and move on with my life.

Am I to be so concern that things just fall apart in the end.

Am I to keep lying when the truth comes to slap me in the face.

Am I to realize that we keep letting the crap get in because we are just being lazy for a moment.

Do we think about the things that happen later on in life because we want to or do we just look at it as a lesson learned and move on and forget.

As the time I’ve had is up and the answers are no clearer today then when you came into my life years ago.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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The

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Never ending cycle of unanswered questions are running though my mind right now.

As problem after problem surrounds me I know I need to slow down and be grateful for what I can do and  not complain about what I can’t do.

All I can hope is that the outcome will turn around in the end so the results will be so much better.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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