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Poetry

I see you

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I hear you

Crying out

For someone, anyone to just hear you.

You want to be rescued from the pain that your hiding behind those eyes.

You want to be seen as good but, your past is so dark that you don’t know how to embrace the light that is coming into your present.

You want to be seen as the person who is now good and has been forgiven for the his past and now is living in the moment that can change everything.

Your heart just wants to be loved and accepted because well life can get lonely sometimes and you don’t really know whose apart of that life anymore.

You trying so hard to look forward but, the good times of the past keep flashing before your eyes.

And you begin to wonder what life would have been like things had turned out a different way.

But, you begin to realize that every struggle that you had come across was a blessing for your life is where it needs to be right now.

You feel happy and satisfied and even though most days are tough, you continue to get up and be strong and motivated to do what needs to get down because you want to be here when something new comes along.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I’ve said

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my peace and now it’s time for you to let me go. 

The memories float away from me as the years pass. 

And, yes from time to time something flashes through my mind but I don’t miss you anymore. 

So I walk away from the things that remind me of the things no longer in my life. 

Sometimes when it’s been one of those days I catch myself thinking about how I miss you. 

But, I know the reason your no longer apart of my life and I’ve accepted that truth a longtime ago. 

The things that I thought were important and would last forever was quickly smashed that night. 

So many pieces that I had to clean up and forget about for today is the present. 

Holding on to too much would drive one crazy and the hole that is barely there would be too big to bear alone. 

I cared about you and I loved you but, the peace in the long run is the fresh air I breath now. 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I wish

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I had all the answers for you

then maybe life wouldn’t be such a disappointment for you.

To shield you from the things that just eat me up inside when you hurt, it hurts me the most.

For you to survive and truly live this life I feel like I have to journey through the things that tore you apart and pick up all the pieces you left behind and slowly but surely build you back up.

So one day you can just simply smile because you are alive and the world isn’t as bad as you thought it was.

You will hopefully live everyday with a moment of clarity and to just stop worrying about what others think.

For you have all you ever wanted right in front of your eyes and the things you want to happen will happen and you will wonder one day who made this all possible.

And maybe I will leave a letter and I hope you will be grateful and accept that even though there are moments now that you feel alone.

Just know that I am always in front of you repairing and building the future path for you and keeping you close for the love that I have for you is stronger than you will ever know my dear boy.

One day you will be the man I always knew you could be and there will be a few people around you that you will trust and in the end they will support you through the end.

Just don’t crawl back into the hole of the hopeless for the future for you is more defined than you know.

 

Sincerely,

Your Guardian angel

Poetry

The Truth

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is I’m trying to be okay with the change that is coming but, I too have my limits and lately it’s like I’m at them and yet I still want to keep going and not give up.

But, I’m aching and the relieve that I am looking for its not happening fast enough for me.

So as time goes on I am pretending to be  happy and just completely not thinking about the things  that do make me happy  for I can’t run now, not when things are working out right now.

The present is laying out the path for the future but sometimes the desire to know too much before the time is meant to be does more harm than help.

The results when sweet are nice but when ugly it stings and seems to stay with you forever even though you know what you are capable of now.

Nothing can stand in your way as you make it on that stage and smile because you have come such a long way.

I’ve been running from the things that I have no answer too, just to end up showing the truth and living in that light that you have given us so that we can be equip with the things that we may need when that day comes my lord.

 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Sympathy

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There is so much going on in the world that there is no way not to care about what would happen to other people.

Even though we may not know them, our hearts are still hoping that they are okay and we try to do all that we can do to help.

We may have to go on with our lives but there isn’t a moment that you don’t know what is going on and how it’s truly sad to see them going through so much.

To be caring for a complete stranger may just be apart of one’s life and it isn’t hard to just feel for them for a moment.

I know for me that my smile may just brighten someone’s day and I’m happy to be there to do that.

And to pray for those that are sick even though I don’t really know them and just try to be caring for everyone deserves a moment of kindness.

For that moment may just change their day or week.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Sympathy

Poetry

I’d like

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to say I had a reason for walking  away from you that day

and that reason is the reason I’m so happy as I am today.

I am at peace and I know my worth and my hope is that I am

as strong as I was that day, because I have so much more to face today than I had back then.

The reason wouldn’t matter to you for you saw it as a weakness at the time for walking away from you was like ending a career right when things were getting good.

But, in reality it was more like deciding that money isn’t more important than taking care of myself.

For you can’t be good at what you love to do if your mind and heart are not in the right place.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Daily Prompt: Paper

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Paper you used to be my go to when I had to write something down

whether it be poetry or just a thought.

I would just get this feeling and quickly I would grab a pencil and just start writing until

my heart was content.

The words would just flow from my mind on to that paper and I wouldn’t stop until I felt I had let it all out.

I still have poems on paper and read them now and then but my love for writing on paper isn’t as strong as before.

As I spend more time writing on my computer than I do with paper.

Sometimes I go back to you paper and write and write until my hands just can’t write anymore and I have to rest.

Paper you were what I used in the past and sometimes in the present and if It hadn’t started with you.

I wouldn’t have a full notebook of poems now and I wouldn’t have so many more poems on my computer either.

 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Daily Prompt: Paper

Poetry

No time to looking back

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anymore for I have new hope that this will workout

for me in the end.

When the sun is shining brightly from the beginning and the peaceful feeling is washing over me today.

I know that things will look and be good for me and those around me.

I don’t have time to look back at the things I missed out on or the things in the present that are not apart of my life.

I live for the now and if you’re not apart of my present than that’s on you not me and I smile knowing that I made the best out of what I had.

And the possibilities are just starting and future holds so much for me but I’m going to focus on the present and light up everything that comes my way.

Because, this year is the battle of a lifetime and I won’t stop fighting.

Even when my hope gets low, I will just rely on my faith to carry me through it no matter what.

For I don’t have time to look back when the most important things are right in front of me.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Light

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my way to the path

of the righteous.

For I don’t want to fall back into the darkness

anymore for I have come a long way.

I am not the girl I used to be and every time

I think about it.

It always brings happy tears for the chains that used to hold me back

have long been broken and I won’t ever go back for it is not me that leads this life anymore.

I have never been more grateful than I was when the light came and saved me.

Now  the darkness just can’t hold a candle to me.

The darkness is like a shadow it never seems to last long .

I smile in the light and I breathe in the light and, the baggage I used to carry has been left in the darkness where it belongs.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

 

Poetry

I used to

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think my life would end up on a path so much different from the one I’m on

but I never thought I see  the connection that grew as I aged up turn into dust

and fade away before I had a chance to mend them.

Time sometimes sneaks up on us and when it’s time to think where it all went wrong

it’s too late or the truth is not around anymore.

So you’re lost and so confused on how it all could have went so this way or maybe

you know the times you slowly but surely walked away and just maybe you thought someone would notice your gone.

But, life has a funny way of showing you just how unimportant you are when you are all alone and no one is trying to find out what happened to you.

You want to be bitter and sad and miserable but you still see the good in the world that has started to close its doors on you.

You smile and you don’t let the bad and lonely moments turn you into someone who doesn’t have some hope left in you.

That little hope keeps you going when time gets so tough that breathing seems like the last thing you should care about.

That little hope carries you on for so long that everything in the past doesn’t bother you anymore but you wouldn’t open that door to the things that don’t matter anymore.

You live with the possibility that someone will remember you and that the connections of today and yesterday will continue and not everyone will leave you.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Sometimes

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I wonder about what happened to you

but I know your future isn’t my concern anymore.

As I move on in the present sometimes you slip back into my mind

as if something just needed me to think about our time together.

But, as quickly as you come you disappear and I’m happy for the past should stay

put away for a reason.

My day is better than it was before and life is so much more simpler

I don’t say the wrong things that much now and I don’t second guess anything.

I listen to my gut and things turn out so much better.

No blinders on as I see everything so clear and I know these years will just grow with more strength and hope and happiness.

Nothing to look back on but the things that made me stronger and everything else just is blur

for I’m living for now and not worrying about the things I could have had or shouldn’t have had at in the first place.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I’m true

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to you with my words and my emotions

being poured on this paper today.

Tomorrow will be a new day for me

and hopefully you will join me on this new adventure.

That may take us both away from the one’s we love just

see what the world has out there for us.

For were stuck here and I don’t want to sink into the quicksand

and be gone with nothing worthy to leave behind.

Together this could just be the moment that defines everything for us

but you just have to have faith and take my hand and trust me.

Jump with me and lets not look back to the things that have not been worth looking back on

in the first place.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes