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Staring

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at the screen as I listen to this song

I want to find so much inspiration.

But, all I feel is the beat carrying me along

and the waves of emotions taking over me.

And I’m not sure where they will take me

for the end result is so unknown.

Somehow these words connect with me and carry me through the storm.

And I come out on the other side in a better light.

I listen to them on repeat and each time a new word helps me

write a new piece and go farther into my creative talents.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily Prompt: Yarn

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Our connection used to be  strong like a metal chain

hard to break.

But, somewhere along our way we got lost and that metal chain turned into

yarn and it begun to come apart so much easier than before.

When one end would come apart I would try to tie it back together and hope that it would last.

But as more pieces of the yarn begun to fall apart I started to wonder if it was worth the effort to keep it all together.

I was over tired from trying to keep something together when it was naturally falling apart.

Maybe it’s time to throw this yarn away and let new connections grow in its place.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily Prompt: Yarn

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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

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Daily Prompt: Avid

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Her passion for writing gets her through the toughest things in life

the words that flow through her mind.

Take away from all the things in life she can’t simply fix on her own.

The feeling of writing is the one thing she looks forward to after a long day of work.

It’s a place of safety for her, she let’s go of everything that holds her back and the sense of worry about liking or reading her piece isn’t as important as the feeling she gets when each piece is complete.

And a piece of her is out there forever.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily Prompt: Avid

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I know

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I can’t be too sad when I dugged my own grave

With the careless words that I said that day.

Maybe, just for a moment I lost my mind but it doesn’t matter

I shouldn’t have let my emotions get the best of me.

The night was already dark and then there I go saying all

Those things.

It felt like you were walking down a hallway carrying so much and there I was

Just putting one more thing into your arms and there you went to the floor.

And no I didn’t even stop to try to help you pick up the mess I just went on with

My day with no care in the world.

Smiling to all as if I was so happy and I didn’t even seem to care that you never showed up I just was so concerned about myself.

I was selfish and my caring heart was so black from just looking out for myself that I didn’t help as many as I used too.

I had become someone I wasn’t just to survive for things were not the way I wanted them to be but, I shouldn’t have taken it all out on you.

Now I will do all that I can to gain the respect and honor to be a part of your life again.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily Prompt: Climbing

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I’m climbing to the top and every now and then

I stumble and fall a couple of steps.

But, instead of giving up I keep going

and sometimes it feels like someone else is carrying me through it all.

Today I feel like I’ve finally reached the top and there you are with a helping hand

to pull me up to my final destination.

The hands and feet that kept me from getting this far is gone and I am so alive right now

that I can’t hold a grudge against them or be mad at all.

All I can do is smile and laugh and cry happy tears at this moment that feels so unreal right now.

So much I have gone through and at times I have let the negativity get to me and drag me down so far.

I thought and felt there was no coming back from this but, some how and some way I made it to the top.

So would think I just had a good day and my luck was up.

But, I know the truth for the hand that reached out to me that day was my lord and the hands and feet that grabbed and kicked at me was my enemies.

They couldn’t see what I saw waiting for me at the top so they did all they could to tear me down.

Yet, I climbed on with more determined than I could build up myself.

For I had to get to the top and I couldn’t just sit down here and wish one day I had the guts to do it.

I had to act now and climb with all my might and not look down or back for one foot and hand at time.

Would get me to where I’m meant to be and I can say now and later that the climb was so worth it.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily prompt: Climbing

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HAPPY EASTER!

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Everyone, I hope you all have a great Sunday!

This day is more than Easter baskets and the yummy things inside them.

It’s another day to worship my lord and today is the day he gave his life for me, a sinner and once a lost soul just cruising through life.

I thought I knew who I was supposed to be and what I was to do with my life, but then time slowed down and I became confused on the direction of my life.

Everything I loved and thought was what I needed to do was gone and not even an option anymore.

He guided me to the right place and  everything became clear and I’m where I’m meant to be with the hopes of more to come.

I stop letting my failures or let downs hold me down and I stop trying to be someone I no longer am.

I became someone new and there is no going back and for that I will always be grateful and so today is more than just another holiday or Sunday for me.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily Prompt: Pause

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Sometimes I wish I could take a moment and just pause

and look around the life I live.

But, life seems to be going by so fast sometimes that taking the time

to slow down seems impossible.

My mind is never quite and always on the move.

I want to pause and see the way things may be going for right now I don’t know

what path to take.

But, I’m just moving along but not for me but for something bigger for my pause will come and I will have the chance to do better.

However, for now my pause will have to wait as my life is on fast forwarding and I don’t seem to have time for much more right now.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily Prompt: Pause

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Daily Prompt: Symbiosis

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Some say living with one’s parents can be quite difficult, but others will say it was the best years of their life.

But we all outgrow the living with the parents as a means of someone looking over you like a mother bird or father bird.

Making sure you did everything right and stayed out of trouble, you built a relationship with them.

Or you didn’t build a relationship with them and does that affect the way you may one day build a relationship with your child?

Sometimes it is hard to give someone something you never had or to recreate what you had in a more positive one.

In the end, you came from two people wanting to build a relationship with you or you came from ones that didn’t want to build, for they just accepted that you were something they could just handle for now.

The relationship can go from good to bad or just stay bad or not exist at all.

And if it doesn’t exist when you think about it later on in life, and if that’s the case, will it affect you or it will not change you for things that came and happen before you?

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily Prompt: Symbiosis

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Falling

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Your voice got me falling all over again

and I know this time I won’t have to worry about the end.

For living in the moment is all I can take right now

I’m floating on air and the music playing around me as we do our dance.

Is ever lasting and I just feel like I can do this dance all day and night and never

grow tired.

As I look into your eyes I see hope and so much joy shining through as your laughter and my mix together to make the most beautiful sound.

Were both so full of life that this moment could be all we have and I would be so happy just reliving it over and over in my memories.

I know that today could be our last and so I don’t want to waste it fighting over anything but just breathing in the fresh air and running inside for some warmth.

Today will be spent the right way and no cold air can freeze this loving moment we have together.

As the words pour out your mouth and I catch them all and tuck them away in a special place in my mind.

I smile up and you and I know falling for you this time will be my last for the happiness I gained with you could last for a lifetime.

A lifetime I willing to fight with you if only those words are true.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Anything

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but the truth rolled out your mouth that day

and I could tell that you thought you were in the clear.

You tried so hard to keep a straight face but I saw right through it and the truth is I feel so

sad for you for you thought a lie would save you.

But, all you had to say was the truth and just maybe you could have walked away that day with no tears in your eyes.

But, you choice the lie and so the lie was what you ended living with and not me and I don’t regret a moment or second.

For what I said was every bit the truth and it really did set me free that day.

I felt alive and in control of my words and emotions and soon I will be able to smile again even when a  thought of you floats through my mind until your gone for good.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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I am only

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as strong as you let me be

and sometimes it’s hard to be

more than what I think I am capable to be.

I want to grow so strong that the little things don’t

bring me down anymore.

I won’t just sit here and let it all fade away for I can’t seem to snap out of this

quick enough.

I don’t let many in for once in they are in they just disappear and then I’m left with an empty hole

of what I thought would be a friendship of a lifetime.

Life is seems too short when you living it in that moment and the next you know

someone is gone, and all it feels like is you just met them yesterday.

Will you forget who I am now?

Or remember me for what I was when I am gone?

Only you can me that choice now or live with the regret later!

 

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily Prompt: Murmuration

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I stared at you trying to get something out of you but nothing came out

and so I walked away no knowing what you wanted to tell me.

But, I swear as I walked away I heard a soft murmur come out of you

but when I turned around all I saw was you looking away.

It didn’t understand how one moment you had so much to say then five minutes

later your staring at me as if I’m a ghost of the person you used to know not so long ago.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily Prompt: Murmuration

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Daily Prompt: Vivid

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The intense feeling of that day always makes me feel like it was just yesterday

The words I remember so clearly even when the sound of the rain pouring down outside.

It was a Tuesday and I had just walked through the door with grocery bags in my hands and after putting it all away.

I took a nap only to wake up thirty minutes later with a text from you on my screen, the words still haunt me for I couldn’t begin to believe that they were true.

It was like watching up from a dream and realizing everything you just went through wasn’t just a dream and the end results are not temporary but life lasting.

All you want to do is scream and cry and go back to sleep so this nightmare would end

But,  it doesn’t the day goes on and all that you read is coming more true and as everyone around you is trying to calm you down and be there for you.

And there isn’t a day that goes by that you just can’t forget what happened that day, when you lost such a large part of yourself and, you try everyday to live more and more for them and yourself.

 

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily Prompt: Vivid

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Daily Picture Prompt 84

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I needed time to myself and I always found it on the waves

I needed to let it all go and not look back at the things that had

no place in my life anymore.

I missed the peace I used to feel when it was just me and the waves

The sound of the water at peace the beating of my still and happy heart.

I was home and I could accomplish so many things in this place where I was just me

No one to whisper untrue things in my ear, I heard the birds and as I rode the wave to the end and now I sit kicking my feet in the water with so much hope for today.

 

Written By: Deirdre Stokes

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Daily Picture Prompt: 84