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 Dec 2013 Ian Cairns
Mike Hauser
Why is it the supposedly more tolerant
Are the least tolerant around
Can we no longer speak our own minds
Without someone out there shooting us down

Feel free to speak your opinion
I'm more than willing but never forced to listen
That there my friend is your basic right
A freedom that seems to be missing

Are we not free thinking individuals
Did I miss the memo where that's no longer allowed
Should I just step into the jet stream
And become a part of this mind numbing crowd

I can clearly see that you are not me
Isn't that what it's supposed to be like
It also rings true that I am not you
So can't we just live our lives

It's hard enough standing on your own two feet
That's why at times we might step on some toes
But can't we all just get along
After all we might like the way that it goes
 Dec 2013 Ian Cairns
sara burns
She spoke in a form
That was exquisitely hers
Then she heard yours
And in you was an accent she spoke with ease
Stretching and pitching her words in your way
Making your cadence hers
Changing her inflections
Manipulating her speech very gradually until
At the end, she was speaking a new Language
Old words strung together in this new way that
No one understood but you
And now that language is shelved
Tucked away and not spoken
Even in her mind she does not use it
And when someone speaks it to her again
It will be all wrong, and
She will stay quiet
 Dec 2013 Ian Cairns
Olivia Jane
If you are my friend
Help me
To leave you
Or, if you are my lover
Help me
So I can be rid of you
If I knew
The ocean was so deep
I wouldn't have swam it
If I knew
How it would end,
I wouldn't have begun.

I desire you
So teach me not to desire
Teach me
How to cut the roots of your love
From the depths of the sea
Teach me
How tears may die in the eyes
And love may commit suicide.

If you are a prophet,
Cleanse me form this spell
Deliver me from this atheism
Your love is like poison
So purify me form  my sins.

If you are strong
Rescue me from these depths
For I don't know how to swim in the dark
The blue waves in your eyes
Drag me deeper into the depths
Blue
Blue turns to black
No longer the color blue
I have no experience
In how to rid myself of you
And, I have no boat.

If I am dear to you
Then take my hand
For I am filled with desire
From my head to my feet
Take my hand
For I am choking
I am breathing under water!
I am drowning,
Drowning...
Drowning.
Peace
 Dec 2013 Ian Cairns
T
The Lesson
 Dec 2013 Ian Cairns
T
When I was a child my mother and father taught me to love
       My innocent heart was a sponge
I soaked up the love in every color and in every smell
and I would touch cheeks wet from tears of sad eyes
and wonder why love made them cry
I rung out my love into eager, outstretched palms
and never thought it would run dry
 Dec 2013 Ian Cairns
Mercy B
I must resign to the fact that you not are here to hold my hand , able to wipe my tears away, to the painfully reality that you are far beyond my reach.
              


I know there were times when you thought wasn't listening , just know I heard all your words and now it is those same lessons that I am trying to teach.
        
                         For, I have not forgotten my way home.


There is so much that now stands between you and I , forever separated by immeasurable distance, never ending time and everlasting space.
      
                    

I manage to find some solace in the memories we have made, although harder it is becoming to even hear your voice let alone picture your face.  

                       Still I have not forgotten my way home.


I became lost in my own sorrow and the path leading to the other side at times can be so very dark, it feels like insurmountable twists and turns are constantly blocking the way.



Keep those big brown eyes focused, anything that comes easily is just not worth doing, the voice in my soul reminds me of theses words you used to say.

                      That is why I have not forgotten my way home.
Dedicated to my mother, on the 21st of December it will be one year since she had to leave. I can not find the words to articulate how much I truly miss her but maybe one day I will. I have good that each day it will become just a bit easier to move on.
Thank you for reading my ramblings and keeping some kind of solid ground under my feet.
Namaste.
Mercie B ♥
 Dec 2013 Ian Cairns
Mercy B
Stop,

        Take the time to drink in all of the loveliness veiled by constant chaos or simply cast away.

        Do  not take for granted that we are indeed on borrowed time, and with no for warning we must repay.

Pause,

         Just long enough to actually listen not only hear what is hidden with in the depths of someone's heart.

         So we may remember that every beginning has to come from another's end, but fret not, prepare for the adventure's start.

Refuse,

  To take ourself so seriously, if we learn to laugh at our little     quirks they will never be able to become a weapon.

   Acceptance of the inclination that someone has a better ability to live your life, flee from that kind of deception.
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