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Ashly Kocher Feb 2018
You can’t change
What is already happening

Take is one day at a time
Be strong

Getting upset
Knowing the unknown
Won’t help matters
Get any better

Stay positive
Stay strong
Stay brave

Live in the moment
Catch what is being thrown at you
Deal with the situation
Throw it back and
FIGHT
Ashly Kocher Nov 2017
A little boy
In so much pain
Fill him with medicine
And fluid
Yet the pain won’t go away

His body shakes
And trembles
From all the fluids being pumped
Inside of him

Being poked and prodded
With needles and such
Wishing I could take away his pain
Being a mother, I’m hurting for him so much

There’s nothing I can do
But sit back and watch
Hoping my boy will come around at once

I’m not complaining for wanting pity from you
This is my son, it’s what I have to do
I just want support and love from all
To help me through these scary falls

As a parent
You want to protect your child
I’m being strong for him to encourage my boy
Even if it’s been very wild

God please watch over him
Help us get through this crazy
Wild
Scary
Time in our lives
Little Ethan... your a true fighter.
My friends son is very sick and has been in the hospital for about a month now. They’ve had many ups and downs since they’ve been there. Please keep little Ethan and my friend Kristin in your prayers.
Ashly Kocher Apr 2019
Fighting this fight
You think your alone
Treatment after treatment
It’s getting old
Tired of fighting
Just want to give up
Getting two steps ahead
But then being pushed back
Jumping hurdles, being pushed to my limits
Contemplating my options, counting the minutes
Even at my worst, I still push through
Having my family and friends support, I couldn’t ask for a better crew
My name is Stephanie, I am battling breast cancer, but I wanted to say thank you
To everyone near and far helping me fight this fight
Sending your love, thoughts and prayers
I will win and conquer this with all my might...
Wrote this for a friend who is battling breast cancer. Please say an extra prayer for her... thank you.
Ashly Kocher Jan 2020
Fighting demons inside
Pushing away the angel on my side
Filling the void of “I don’t know why”
Slowly losing the battle of my life
Wrote this for a coworker dealing with drug addiction. For as much as I say “I don’t care anymore” I am human and have a heart. I hope nothing happens to him and he gets help but I’m done fighting his battles as well.
Ashly Kocher Apr 2021
Collections fill the void of something you’ve lost and couldn’t control in which it takes this part of my journey, these fill the emptiness for the one thing I’ve longed to have for so many years that I lost, and couldn’t hold onto....
Giving me hope, happiness, love, strength and most of all “Healing”
Ashly Kocher Jun 2020
In a world where there’s ........


Be the ......
Be the light. Stay Humble. Stay strong. Stay you. Take a stand. Respectfully.
Ashly Kocher Oct 2019
Sometimes just a presence of someone and conversation
Makes your heart happy and fills the void that you miss daily
Ashly Kocher Mar 2021
Collections fill the void of something you’ve lost and couldn’t control in which it takes this part of my journey, these fill the emptiness for the one thing I’ve longed to have for so many years that I lost, and couldn’t hold onto....
Giving me hope, happiness, love, strength and most of all “Healing”
Ashly Kocher Oct 2017
Will you listen to me and the words that I say
Or will you just turn around and walk away
Pull the wool over my eyes
Turn your back and never say goodbye
Pieces of my heart shatter to glass
As I try and pick up the pieces of my past
I am better off the person that I am now
As for you
You never took for your
                Final
                   Bow
Ashly Kocher Aug 2017
Three years ago still haunts me
Making the decision of what the inevitable would become the reality
Watching your body deteriorate right in front of our eyes
Knowing the day was coming to say our goodbyes
I held your hand and looked into your eyes
Saying I love you and to just let go
Even though the pain in my heart was greater then you know
Six more days you held on to your life as we surrounded your bedside
Not a day goes by I don't think of you and our final time together
Papa bear, I miss you and love you so much
3 years ago today was the last time we talked to one another even though you were here for a little longer
Our final week together was a picture frame of memories that will last forever
If only there was a time machine to take me back just to hold on to you and never let go...
3 years ago was the final week of my dads life. Miss him more and more with each passing day. It's never gets easier you just cry a little less everyday. :(
Ashly Kocher Jun 2019
My heart is breaking
Knowing in a couple days
I will see you one last time
Say my final goodbye
As you get lowered into the ground
For your final resting place...
Ashly Kocher Nov 2017
Driving your car without a care in the world
Having fun with friends filled with
laughter and joy
Not a care in the world or fear in your eyes
When out of nowhere a car slams into your drivers side
What do you feel or think in that moment
As the car is flipping into the air
Screaming and scared you yell “are you ok over there?”
It all happened so fast and the car comes to a stop
Glass and blood everywhere
Can’t move, I am now stuck
Is this the end for me and my friend
We were just having fun as we were struck near our front end
What are my thoughts, I can’t form a lot
My friend is not moving, what chance do I got?
If this is my time I thank God for what he gave me
Even though I won’t fulfill my dreams

Rescue crews come to help us out
I’m screaming in pain all I can do is shout
I hear from across the car “it’s a DOA”
My friend is now gone..
I have no words to say
I will carry this guilt for the rest of my life
Even though it wasn’t my fault, she’s gone, it’s just not right

The person who hit us was drunk out of their minds
Now I’m left without a friend crying tears from my eyes
I’m sorry we were in the wrong place at the wrong time
Your forever my friend
I’m sorry you lost your life....
Didn’t write this for anything in particular just for all the people that do get hurt or killed in car accidents by drunk driver.
Ashly Kocher Feb 2020
Finding myself through the pile of memories that are stuffed away in a box on a shelf in my closet
Ashly Kocher Jan 2020
There is always hope
You just have to believe
Someone’s heart has a spot open for you
Just you wait and see
It will happen when you least expect it
Don’t look for it, don’t quit
Love is in the air just for you
To create a family for your little girl too...
Wrote this for my friend who is still looking for love after her divorce.
Ashly Kocher Jul 2019
Tracking down what you have lost
But not knowing exactly what’s lost
Until you stumble and find you lost yourself
Over all this time that has passed
Finding yourself again, finding you again at last...
Ashly Kocher Feb 2022
Someday, you will find yourself
Under the rubble of all that’s left from the exploded emotions you’ve endured throughout your years
But, always remember, without the journey you’ve been on, you wouldn’t be the warrior you are today
Those different layers of life, have showed you the way…
Ashly Kocher Sep 2021
You’ll find “me”
(Yourself)
When “you”see me
(Myself)
Ashly Kocher Jun 2022
Maybe the spotlight didn’t shine on all of your dreams
But somehow it just dimmed on this fantasy
Better yet, the light just hasn’t been found
Or maybe its not noticed on this side of town

Step into the sunlight
Shine your smile for all those tonight
Who’s going through a tough time
Be the light to shine so bright
Maybe your their dream’s coming to life
Disguised within your own work of art

Like the ocean waves sing the melody
Be the voice for those drowning emotionally
Your spoken words come to life
Spreading love and joy
Look, you found your spotlight!
Ashly Kocher Jan 2019
I reach my hand out for you
Fingertips touch then slip away
Like a melting popsicle in your hand
Once it’s gone, it’ll never be the same again
Ashly Kocher Dec 2017
My heart drops deep down in my stomach
I hear the news and I collapse
The damage is done and there's no turning back
But now our lives are on the right track
We embark on a new journey and restart our lives
All things so precious went right before our eyes
We build a new staircase and walk to the top
We all have eachother so nothing much was lost.
I wrote this 6 years ago when my family’s house was destroyed by fire. This was one of my first real poems I wrote.
Ashly Kocher Aug 2019
Sometimes the fire inside of me is too hot for even me to handle....
Ashly Kocher Jan 2018
She would conquer the day
As she moved everyone out of her way
With fire sparking through her fingers
The smoke billows around all and lingers
Don’t get in her way, she is on a mission
To spread her spark of positivity on all and to brighten the path of everyone standing in her way
Ashly Kocher Mar 2024
She is fire
But she’s also like rain
Fierce and electric
Calm and heavy
Unaware of her powers
Sudden downpours engage
Rejuvenating the fire
That once was extinguished away
Ashly Kocher Mar 2021
There’s fire in her eyes
Yet the pain sorta subsides
As she tries to get by
Still not understanding why
Ashly Kocher Jan 2018
Baby it’s cold outside
    But the fire in my eyes
          Is burning bright
            Come take a look
                I’ll keep you warm all night
Ashly Kocher Jan 2022
Your eyes are fire
Your eyes are bright
Click  the switch
Watch it ignite
With passion and desire
You will empower
Your limitations will spark that fire
Creating your full limits of imagination
Ashly Kocher Apr 2017
Colorful
Lights fill the sky
Painting a picture in the nighttime
Red
Blue
Purple
Green
Fulfilling all of our hopes and dreams
Ashly Kocher Oct 2019
Our first breath
Is one breath closer
To our last one
What you do
In the middle
Of those breaths
Is completely up to
You
Ashly Kocher Mar 2018
Yay! First day of spring is here
Finally warm weather...
Just kidding...
Snow is about to appear!
The dreaded S word we all love to hate
Snow, but of course, is starting to blanket the slate
Please let this be the same storm of the year
For it is, the first day of spring, and the snow is really starting to appear...
So over this Pennsylvania weather... I need to move! Lol
Ashly Kocher Jan 2020
Reminiscing about our past
The makeup, the dances, the friendships that last
Even though we’re grown, and may have drifted apart
The structure of dance always will remain in our hearts
Looking back from what we had learned years ago
Just think, it all started with the first “Hello”
From that moment on, we were all connected from the start
Our three angels in Heaven are to thank for this, and we will continue to carry them in all of our hearts
Dance friends remain friends no matter how much time has passed
Reminiscing and turning back time is a great memory at last...
Miss Jeanne’s School of Dance Arts is where all of our friendships began to start...
Ashly Kocher Dec 2018
Since the first kiss
You had me
H
O
O
K
E
D
Like a
F
       I
            S
                 H.....
Ashly Kocher Apr 2019
Baby, I Love You....
....From our first
K
I
S
S
I knew our life together was about
To
S
T
A
R
T
Ashly Kocher Dec 2017
As the night the day grew colder then ice
White powdery stuff began to form from the sky
Big snowflakes began to fall
Oh so pretty as children play, having a ball
The beauty of nature has turned everything white
As the snow softly is falling throughout the day to night
Some people are happy as other are filled with fright
As the first snowfall of the year looks so peaceful and nice
Turning everything around us a soft, pure white..
Ashly Kocher Oct 2018
Deep sea fishing
To reel in
Capturing my hopes and dreams
Ashly Kocher Jun 2021
It’s ok to not fit in…
Not every key opens all doors…
Ashly Kocher Jan 2020
Trying to fit the mold
                  Of someone else’s expectations
Yet, only finding your true identity in the process of which you thought you lost...
Ashly Kocher May 2020
Trying to fit the mold
                  Of someone else’s expectations
Only coming to realize, that the mold your trying to fit
Is your higher expectation of becoming the best version of you
Ashly Kocher Dec 2017
The warm sun beating on your face
        
         The ocean waves crashing at your            feet
          
          The smell of salt water in the air
    
      The beauty of the world embracing your soul

        The beach can relax and fix you...
Ashly Kocher Mar 2020
If your getting burned
Step away from the flame
You don’t need to be that close to negativity
Ashly Kocher Apr 2022
The flames desire grows brighter with the spark of the soul’s energy, igniting the passion of one’s true self
Ashly Kocher Oct 2019
You are my flashlight
Since you light up my world
Turning my darkness into a spotlight
Casting a shadow on my own loving heart
Ashly Kocher Jan 2018
Beauty lies within ourselves
The way your life lessons will make your heart beat
Is the pulse that keeps you alive and going
Once you stop believing your beautiful
Then, only then, will you flatline.......
Ashly Kocher Jul 2020
My eyes are floating
into the mystical world
of unsettled weather
caused by my thunderous thoughts...
Fly
Ashly Kocher Dec 2020
Fly
I stand here
On my own
Spreading my wings
Yet scared to fly
Fly
Ashly Kocher Jan 2018
Fly
I can fly
With you
By my side
Ashly Kocher Feb 2021
A true Angel has gained her wings
Her story in Heaven now begins
Our guardian Angel, now she’ll be
Forever in our hearts, holding onto our memories....

RIP sweet Angel, may you dance upon the clouds and shine your smile down on us...
One of my former dance students passed away yesterday at age 20...
Ashly Kocher Jun 2020
Our life is like flying a kite...
Sometimes we fly high...
Sometimes we crash hard...
Sometimes is takes a little to get going
........Don’t ever give up, continue to keep trying....
Ashly Kocher May 2018
Come fly with me
                 Into my dreams
Where anything is possible
                If you just believe
Ashly Kocher Aug 2021
To get the best picture
You focus your camera just right
Now try the same focus on your own life to get the best result of you just right…
Ashly Kocher Jul 2021
Looking through the cobwebs and distorted view
It may seem unclear as to what you should do
Focus your eyes
Open your heart
Follow the path to a fresh start
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