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”
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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”
All the Beginnings that End
You think us cruelYou had something and it went awaySomething you treasuredYou lovedYou lost yourself inHear usNothing you lose yourself in is rightNothing that takes you from yourself is healthyNothing that you constantly strive for is workingNo permanent struggle equals happinessNoneNo job should subdue the selfNo career should steal your lifeNo friendship should diminish youNoContinueContinue reading “All the Beginnings that End”
Writer’s Pause
How can I write?I’m busy aren’t I?I meanif I had the timethen I wouldAnd how can I wordall the things on my mind?(It would help if there were thingsOn my mind)Truth isthe thinking is getting in the way of the writingto the point that I can’t think to writeWhich makes me my own conundrumand effectivelyContinueContinue reading “Writer’s Pause”
The Lights of a Far Off Town
I was driving alongI was spiralling downNothing was left but a tragic clownAll was wrongWhere was rightAll was dark nothing lightAnd the world was coloured inDull grey and brownI had climbed in my carWith no thought as to whyAnd I drove without seeingThe world flying byThe roads they went upAnd the roads they went downThenContinueContinue reading “The Lights of a Far Off Town”
Sometimes
SometimesThe fear is like a living thingMoving inside meTrying to take me overAnd make me not meI’ve learned thoughThat it is an imposterAnd if I findSomething beautiful to think aboutThe fear will be pushed outAnd happier thoughts will take its placeThen I will be creatingThe future I wantNot the future I fearAnd those thoughts willContinueContinue reading “Sometimes”
A Million Things
I thought I needed a million thingsIn order to be happyA million poundsAll the shoes and chocolate in the worldTo go everywhereTo experience everythingTo have lots of friendsTo have the perfect face and figurePerfect healthSeveral carsSeveral housesMaybe a helicopter and a private planeThen I woke up one morningNothing had changedBut I was happyAnd all wasContinueContinue reading “A Million Things”
You Are Me
I understand the innocence of childhood Because long ago I was you An innocent with my whole life in front of me Safe in my cocoon with my family Playing happily in streets Splashing in the rain Paddling in the sea And shrieking as the waves washed over me As you used to But youContinueContinue reading “You Are Me”
Deb Hawken - Amorah 