Life is simpler
Once you've learned
To take it easy
And not to make something
A priority
Unless it might turn
Emergency

Secret hearts
Suffer in silence

At trying times
Push through sorrow
Beyond darkness
Seek the light
Find the heart
Where love still shines

Fate
Blind the world
So they might
Listen to their hearts
To find the truth
Slumbering within

I can't turn back time
Nor offer more
Than my apologies
But if I must
I can live
Without forgiveness

Look around
Consider
If the life you seek lies
With the company you keep

Be lovable
For unlike attention
Affection
Knows no negative

It's too early to tell
The morning after
Regrets might still surface
Come clarity

I know
You only mean
To hold on
But your hooks
Are tearing us apart
You’re not going my way
Leaving us both
Hurt and torn
As our distance
Grows
You are losing me
Just the same

Mother nature
Although nothing she creates
Ever lasts
Is still by far
My favorite painter

Find me
In what silent whispers
Remain
Once I've stepped beyond
The happy recollections
Hiding amidst
A million random thoughts
Subtly
Entrusted to your memory

Waiting for miracles
Rarely ever works
Prayers, hopes, and wishes
Are the road to disillusion
Instead
Make achieving your goals
Through hard, honest work
Your 2020 vision

Before you can
Enjoy the view
You'll need to
Brave the climb

Can't ignore
More time passed
Than we
Actually shared
Many times
Seasons went
Only to
Come again
The painful truth
Left standing

It was
      Is
            Always be

      Y O U

Stuck on why
Longing for once
Somewhere
Between used to
And never was
Where monkeys fly
Maybes die
And dreams untended
Wither
All the while
Oblivious
The cost

While I am
Still mad
About the why and how
I guess they were not all
Selfish reasons
So, thank you
For not giving up
On making me
A better person

In retrospect
Watching the sun set
On my purposeful
Accomplished life
I realize
Too late
I much preferred
The wasted days

Thou shalt
Not be
Commanded

If you wish me
To succeed
Don't criticize
All I do
Bereft of sunlight
Even the strongest flower
Cannot bloom