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everything under the sun
has a shadow
my brother the hawk
my sister the tree
myself this spirit am I
put into form
on my journey
I walk forward
on my path
to the great infinity
beyond time
the tree is me
I am the tree
we are one
as is everything under the sun
Melissa Rose Jul 2020
beneath the anguish of sorrow
within the resistance to hope
I let go
into the sigh of surrender
where a tenderness washes over
this wounded heart
whispers of love
emerge through its cracks
crowding the silence,
filling the emptiness
and subtly piercing the dark
7/29/20
I walk where I fear to tread
I bathe in the darkness
Surrender to its cold embrace
And find home in its arms

Will you follow me?
You, who lives in the sun
Who walks in joy
And relishes the dawn

We are One
Two sides of the same coin
Joined but facing away
United in experience

Bring your joy into the night
As I bring my calm to the day
We are One you and I
We bathe in the same pool
inspired by Rumi's night travellers.
Emily Donoher Jul 2020
pearl feathers you refuse to call white
scared it would mean something if you did
scared your scepticism will cup cold palms
around your warming neck and squeeze
what little belief you have out of you
a corpse will always be a corpse
but the soul of a wanderer will wander
into the wind and sky and I
and you too if you just let him
so let him

let him be the breeze
that forces you to stop counting
the number of days that have passed
since he last hugged you

let him be your buoy that
serves ground in an ocean
that knows of no stillness

let him be
the flickering light
the white butterfly
the fallen feather

he will be forever with us
let him be
Merry Jul 2020
Eve ate the untouchable apple
And was made to leave Eden
With Adam, beside her, and his child

Persephone ate the pomegranate
And was made to stay in Styx
With Hades as her husband

To stay or to leave,
I want a man to eat fruit with,
As lovers, loyal and sublime
Nickeita Hunter Jul 2020
It's there! The pain...
Fine dining on my inner thoughts,
THEN, lounging on the sofas of my mind. It's there! The hurt...
Surfing through my bloodstream,
Splashing doubts...fears, unearthing the "WHYS"? and the "WHAT IFS?".
At times I felt dead- maybe I wanted to feel dead...
BUT only in my head.

Pain caused me to feel broken- lonely- even in a crowd.
Stifling my voice of happiness, drowning my hopeful gleams.
Killing me slowly...softly...leaving its permanent scars...
But through the pain, I now soar,
a soul painfully broken, but divinely cured.

Whoever said that we had to hurt to learn?
The only compensation I got from pain, was RAGE.
Well... I used to be angry- ofcourse until peace stepped in - His peace.
And now all I see is beauty- beauty in my brokenness.

I can now smile, though I'll never fully understand the detour.
Why life chose to break me? I may never be sure.
The pain; yes, it's still there; driving me to be more...
To be a better person than I was before...before life ***** me...before it fractured my hope, trust, dreams!
Before anger broke me!
Forcing me to be a better woman- one of strength, whose beauty blossoms through pain.

Yes! There is beauty in my brokenness,
because now I'll never be the same.
Through pain, life has taught me in a day, things years failed to...
Life happens, and we've just got to play its game.
There may be speed bumps on the highways, large potholes to go through
But if you look closely-through your tear stained eyes, You'll find beauty in your brokenness,
Just as I did in mine.

#painfully broken-Divinely cured#
(For the girl whose pain turned to praise)
Wrote this poem while I was going through one of the roughest times in my life. Couldn't understand it at the time, but I learnt to trust His process.
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