At the edge of HumanityThere is a spaceA gap representing a choiceLife has assaulted youBeaten you backDestroyed your youthful dreamsLeft you bereftAngryDisappointedDisillusionedBroken?You feel outside hopeWorthlessTrodden down by the success of othersDiminished by being differentYou’re all wrong in this worldFor any number of reasonsThat don’t exist anywhereOther than in the minds of thoseWho make themselves feelContinueContinue reading “The Edge of Humanity”
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The Rules
There are rules you know!Depending on where we’re fromWe have to hate each otherNothing else is possibleOr sensibleDepending on our skin colourThere are rules that we must followJudgements to be madeAn entire shade placed in one categoryOf right or wrongDepending on our body structureWe must be one thing or the otherNothing else is rightNo authenticContinueContinue reading “The Rules”
Message to the Children
I love you bothEquallyUniquelyBut how to prove itTo you who areSo perfectly differentHow to explainThat love comes in many formsLike youAnd one formIs no more nor less beautifulThan any otherLove is as diverse as you areUniquely individualAnd unchanged by detailsYou are equally amazingEqually beautifulEqually lovingAnd you own equal partsOf my heart and soulThe world mayContinueContinue reading “Message to the Children”
Intelligent Life?
If humans are the most intelligent life on the planetwhy do we choose war?Why do we destroy our environment and overheat our atmospherethen deny the damage?Animals do not do thisEven the most lowly bug does not do thisBut we think we’re betterTrees connect through their rootsWhen another tree is dying they try to feed itWeContinueContinue reading “Intelligent Life?”
I Saw a Daisy
I was worrying about the worldWhen I saw a daisyStanding proudly looking into the sunBeautiful and completeWithout a frownThe daisy asked me what troubled meI said the state of the worldIt said that it was in this worldAnd untroubledBecause it had long ago learnedThat the world would turn as it didAnd it was too smallContinueContinue reading “I Saw a Daisy”
Your Unhappiness
Your UnhappinessIs not my burden to carryYet carry it I haveThrough the long winter of your lifeA product of your pastFrozen in timeAnd carefully nurtured to controlEverything around youIt has become my burdenIt has compromised my abilityTo see the lightDimmed my daysClouded my mindAnd unleashed vibrations into the worldThat were never necessaryThe past was notContinueContinue reading “Your Unhappiness”
All the Thoughts You Cannot Think
All the thoughts you cannot thinkPile into your mindWithout courtesyEndlessly it seemDraining your life forceOne tear at a timeThe bad thoughtsRejected because they hurtYet somehow demanding your attentionThe good thoughtsRejected because it never worksOr you’re undeservingAll those hurtsMaintainedAll those dreamsLet GoAll those frownsFew smilesYou can move back to the pastRecreating the hurtsThat you can’t remember clearlyButContinueContinue reading “All the Thoughts You Cannot Think”
All the Things You Cannot Feel
Close down they say Don’t feel the world It is too muddled Too angry Too painful Be afraid Be very afraid I love you they say Then they go away So you do not ever feel love In the same way again I’m your friend they say Then they’re gone Like mist on an autumnContinueContinue reading “All the Things You Cannot Feel”
All the Joy You Cannot Know
Who told you that I created a world of misery? I the universal spark I the divine I the magical I the mystical Created this world in my image Yet you prefer to trust each other You absorb world viewsThat have no place in my creation Your disbelief in joy Your lack of optimism IsContinueContinue reading “All the Joy You Cannot Know”
All the Hope You Cannot Feel
You are without hope Lost in a cavern of emotion Seeking to escape your own fate Created in your own heart By you? By others? Does it matter? You are without joy Overwhelmed by what shouldn’t be Shouldn’t have happened Or been said Or done But it was said And it was done And itContinueContinue reading “All the Hope You Cannot Feel”
Deb Hawken - Amorah 