25 things that are good for the soul...

1. Music
2. Relationships
3. Better yet, sincere relationships
4. Compliments
5. Ability to acknowlegde your own talents
6. A long talk about nothing with a good friend
7. Faith
8. Forgiving
9. And asking for forgiveness
10. Child's laughter
11. Creativity
12. Alone time
13. A good movie and ice cream :)
14. Reminders of where you come from
15. Making someone smile
16. A good book
17. LOVE, any kind of love!
18. A blank, white canvas
19. Just letting go...
20. Saying what you mean
21. Curiousity
22. A dog sleeping on your lap
23. No regrets
24. A sore stomach from laughing
25. Writing this list!


-- Posted from my iPhone

Doubt

At twelve
I feel

Doubt

for the first time

Alone

I search for the strength
to get me through

Faith

is all I have
to hold onto
when I walk into
the bitter, empty room

My life
in one man’s hands
for three hours

Body shivers
when I lie
on the numbing steel

Count to one
starting from five
and breathe in

The last thing I hear
before I drift to sleep

Later I wake

Lightheaded by the
overwhelming pain
down my arm

Room spins and spins
but my

Faith

still intact

Alone

I laugh at the

Doubt

as it swiftly
fades away

Raindrops

In bed I lie,
raindrops brush my window
and form patterns of sound
as they settle gradually.


-- Posted from my iPhone

Toxic

Anemone red eyes scream envy
Rusted soul
Closed cellar door

Warts invade her tongue
And make flutist words
Bulge through her cloistered mouth

Scrambled, trailmixed sounds
Pitbull clatter hurls out of her

Cleverly she stings
Fibula marks embedded in me

I hate you on a plank
Ready to dive off
Wax-sealed to my tongue

But I stay silent


-- Posted from my iPhone

Letter to God

Dear God: Doubt creeps and crawls within me
My faith fades gradually like a broken leaf
A faded leaf fallen from a blooming tree
Trying to stay alive without anyone’s grief

I pray to you for everything to make sense
Only to stop at an empty feeling inside
Deep inside my soul where belief has no defense
Against my uncertainty it does collide

If you are real, why must you hide?
At night, I try to listen in the silence
To your response

Most nights I do

Feel something in me die
And there is only great absence
Fading my leaf more and more from you



-- Posted from my iPhone

Warm Summer Days

She looks up through her coiled hair
At an open sky as sheer clouds swim by,
Warmth of the sun on her peppy face,
So alive and animated,
Sand hides between her tiny toes,
A kindly breeze twirls her skirt
While she keenly dances around,
I hear her giggle repeatedly,
Peaceful laughter intoxicates my spirit,
And I reminisce to my warm summer days,
Glowing, sunny summer days when the sand
Tickled my soles and made my face smile.


-- Posted from my iPhone

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