Words

Do we care what we say

Do we care who we hurt

Do we care for others at all

For the words that we use

When they're meant to abuse

Will only cause others to fall

Our words should be chosen

Only after we think

With an effort that they do not offend

Although we think they're amusing

With the words we are using

It's someone's life that we often upend 

Handle Your Hairpins With Hope

The road of life
brings many curves
when hope is present
the curves are gradual
drivable
handled
with confidence


When hope wanes
the curves become
hairpins
tight
stress driven
taking you
to the edge
where control
can easily be lost


Without hope
your journey
on this road
can lead you
a place of
insanity

Don't Walk Away From Yourself

You've walked away
From who you were
In order to please another
Now you're wondering why
You're feeling empty inside
Thinking it should have been worth the bother


So what the feelings were hidden
So what the emotions suppressed
All you wanted was their acceptance
You tried to be who you thought they wanted
But what they saw
Was disingenuous


A heart now broken
A life now ruined
All because of a little lie
And yet you wonder
Why all you want is to lay down
And just simply to die

Can Happiness Be As A Candles Flame

A candle

With wick aflame

Sheds light

Into the room

The light increases

When it's fire

Is shared

And yet it's life

Is not decreased

It remains

Sharing it's light

With all the other candles

Continuing to illuminate

The room

Chasing the darkness

Away

A thousand other candles

May be lit from this one

They in turn

Can share their fire

With a thousand more

The flame then can burn

Eternal  

The Road To Joy

The road to joy
Is found within
Where no man
Can destroy it


The road to joy
Is found within
Where the world
Cannot deny you


The road to joy
Is found within
Where only you
Block your way

The Key Is Within

The key is within
Where no man can plunder
If you don't give it up
They can't steal your thunder


No matter what's needed
You've got it inside
No reason to give up
No reason to hide


The strength that you have
It was present at birth
On it's own it won't leave you
It gives you your worth


When a man sets his mind
And his heart on a task
With his key the door opens
And that's not much to ask

It's A Man Made Hello We Live In

What if
there was no covetous greed,
I believe for religions
there would be no need.


Greed is often for power
and sometimes for wealth
and when overzealous
extremely bad for our health.


Desiring, groping
always for more
attacking our spirit
leaving it poor.


Gone to the point
where our means become crimes
bringing this world
to the worst of it's times.


But if
there was no covetous greed
and we find satisfaction
in that which we need.


The theft would then stop
the killing as well
and we might not be living
in this man made Hell.