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I wish there was a better way,
To show things will get better,
Than stupid umbrella metaphors.
Because the truth is,
No amount of wisdom can really help,
When darkness is a brainless beast.

I wish there was a way to make things change,
Nothing big,
Just to shake up the rocks.
To unstuck everybody who needs it,
It’s not much compared to these pains,
But I promise we will see the sun.
There’s more to be done and there are people in pain that deserve saving. Do not close your eyes to grief for the only way to overcome an oppressor is to stand and fight against it. Weep not when the fight is hard, when it is as if you’re trying to push back an ocean. For if you’re out of fight there is always someone willing to fight for you. These days light is scarce and peace is rare but there is still hope to believe in. I beg you to refuse giving up, to refuse to fall down further, I beg you, climb higher. When you reach the top all you will have to fear is falling, and if we refuse to fall, there is no fear to be had. Life is the time between the sun setting and rising, we will see the day!
People will come to you,
For one reason or another.
Either drawn to you for friendship,
Or drawn to your light,
To feed.
It's more important to keep yourself up above,
Than regret the ways you let yourself fall to them.
You'll never get closure,
From broken people,
Who wanted to see a broken you.
The only way you can fill that gap,
Is by cleaning out the place in your heart they stayed,
So you have more space,
To grow.
For anybody feeling saddened, looking for comfort, or looking for words to match the ones your thinking, I'd suggest reading 'Pillow Thoughts' by Courtney Peppernell. It's a beautiful collection of mostly untitled poetry. Reading it has really helped me out, I feel strongly it may have the same affect on you. It's organized by feelings rather than chapters so you can skip around to read the pieces that match what you're feeling.
Her heart was awakening.
The bonds that held her were loosening, one by one.
Her mind was stretching, reaching back through time.
Her heart hungered again.
Hungered for life after death.
And from her ashes, she rose.
Emerging from her former self.
Rising out of the world, which sought to hold her beauty under glass.
She was breaking free from her own confines, no longer content to view the world from the safety of her fortress.  
Her passion for life burned brightly, lighting the way ahead, reignited from within.

-Rhia Clay
I have invested too much effort in rebuilding my sanctuary to let fools throw stones at it or to allow them to break its windows.
I am unafraid to walk my path alone.
What I fear is letting the wrong individuals into my garden.
The mere presence and toxic energy of some people can uproot what has taken years to cultivate.
I will tend to my garden and watch my soul thrive.
I will take back my voice.
After all, this is my life.

-Rhia Clay
Shofi Ahmed Jun 25
You can nuke,
or you can spare
a red, red rose.

How grand—
to rule by choice,
to roar with the claim
your vision is pure,
as clear
as morning dew.
Yet you harbour genocide
in Palestine - the innocent rose.

Have you forgotten?
The last titan’s
Rise and Fall?
It will repeat.
That’s no lie.

The nightingale’s ode
to the rose
isn’t always whole.

It knows—
some places
bear more thorns
than eyes can hold.

But like yesterday,
tomorrow again,
it will hum
for the rose.
Looking, out my window,
Watching, the beginning of a new day,
The darkness of night, slowly fades,
As the morning sun rise, lights everything,
In its way, with powerful, warm rays.
The trees on the hill, on the other side,
Of Maxwell’s creek, standing so still,
The temperature around sixty degrees,
Comfortable, just a slight morning chill.
A very peaceful place, nothing but nature,
Trees and grass, no hustle, or constant race,
A special place, for me to write, where, I wrote,
My first, poem/song, still creating, twenty three years later,
A third of this life, my mind drifting, traveling,
Catching special messages in space.

                     The original: Tom Maxwell  ©  6/11/2025 AD
NOTE: I intentionally Reversed (FINE and DANDY to DANDY and FINE) but you guys get the idea same concept!!!



Rise and Grind!!!!
as the Sun
starts to shine,
Wipe the sleep
from your eyes,
Come on,
IT'S GO TIME!!!,
COME ON AND
MAKE HASTE,
YOU GOT
NO TIME TO WASTE,
GOD WOKE YOU UP
THIS MORNING,
of HIS
LOVE and HIS GRACE,
so give
GOD THE PRAISE,
for this
BRAND NEW DAY!!!
Before you
hit the streets,
DO NOT FORGET TO PRAY,
OH, THE
BEAUTIFUL SUNSHINE,
full of
BEAUTIFUL
SUNRAYS!!!
BLUE SKIES,
NO CLOUDS,
NOT EVEN
A SIGN OF RAIN,
So, start your day off,
feeling
DANDY and FINE,
I hope you have
a GOOD ONE,
Once again,
RISE AND GRIND!!!!


B.R.
Date: 6/8/2025
I intentionally Reversed (FINE and DANDY to DANDY and FINE) but you guys get the idea same concept!!!
We drank coffee and smoked cigarettes as the sun rose.
We spoke in philosophical rhymes, unaware of the passage of time.
I realize now that the love we had is lost.
You reach for me, but I am a phantom. Long ago, I stopped reaching back.
Still, what we had—the raw and unearthly attraction, the bond forged between our two souls—is unlike anything I’ve ever known.
I will be alone until love strikes my heart like it once did.
I want a love that burns me to ash and then resurrects itself from the remnants.
I want a love that bleeds, gives, and never makes me question my worth.
If I can’t have that, I am content with nothing at all.

-Rhia Clay
Is there anything more gorgeous than a human being rising, greeting their own soul again after the distance nearly tore them apart?  

-Rhia Clay
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