In a world full of roses,

Be the crown of thorns,

Whilst everyone gets lost in woes,

Shine bright amidst life’s storms,

Though some may freeze like winter snow,

Shivering like a leaf tattered and torn,

Be the apricity that thaws their soul,

The pause between the breath…death is reborn!

—TerrySalmon-...

I sit here and look to the trees for answers,

while a hushed breeze falls from the leaves' laughter.

In our rumination of the past and the future,

always searching for meaning, forgetting what matters.

The beginning of "I" and its fated downward spiral,

breeding thoughts of madness, falling forever deeper,

into a darkness that swallows another's inner light.

The wind picks up—leaves fall like rain...

The other day something happened that I would’ve thought impossible,

A sad reminder that all live is unpredictable,

One second everything was great, the next something completely inexplicable,

Unbelievable, unthinkable, inconceivable,

Unreasonable completely premature,

A sad reminder of how precious life can turn into a battle,

That makes everyone bow their heads in a moment of prayer…

For Chasta...

Sometimes life is going great then in an instant starts to shift.

All the love gets replaced with hate and I hate to admit.

That everything just accumulates,

Yet before I submit and let this escalate.

I’m gonna keep fighting and beat it!!

Yeah right!!

It’s way past too late for that but at least I tried it.

I didn’t lay down like I’m weak and keep taking it. But in the end I guess I was….

A...

This anxiety is a shadow that never leaves me.

It starts out silently, siphoning my vitality,

Quickly turning violently, rewriting my reality.

It takes over privately, tirelessly invading my privacy.

Blood boils as the pulse beats with fury,

Turning everything I know into pure misery.

Each breath becomes a battle, a struggle to remain whole,

Breaking me to pieces; I fight for contro...

I sit tight through the night and ponder,

As I look to the trees for answers,

In the loving embrace of nature.

Eyes closed, hands feeling, taking in the texture

Of the bark and the earth together.

Can it be a gift of the Gods? A miracle elixir?

My fingers trace the leaves; there’s a spark divine,

A flash of light, slightly lifting life’s veil,

Coded in nature's design.

Delicate ...

Ever since I can remember I’ve had a hole,

The size of a pin prick inside of my soul,

I try to fight back but life is taking its toll,

Standing face to face with the Devil,

I realize I need to surrender, relinquish control,

Before the demons inside make me their forever home,

I used to feel all alone till I went deeper into my darkness and made it my own,

Been living there for so long,

My heart ha...

I’m sitting here, trying to figure out what instills fear.

The things that make my skin peel, as they take away all that’s real.

I feel like a busted tire or a missing wheel,

Bumping and crashing into life as I fall downhill.

I need some pills—enough to completely fill my stomach till I’ve taken enough to kill

The monster of fear I can’t see or hear.

But it hides in the shadows; it giv...

Being sad is one of the worst feelings in the world,

Makes the tiniest of things into gigantic hurdles,

Going everywhere and nowhere, turning in circles,

Just food for the picking for life’s vultures,

Not the kind that you read about in scriptures,

But the ones that freeze your soul as you hide under your covers,

Only to discover,

The birth of a 1000 sufferers,

They never leave, th...

I wrote this for a group I used to be in that claimed to be spiritual and enlightened. Afteri was an admin for about a year or so they decided to change the rules and automatically ban members that they thought weren’t enlightened as them or on the same vibrational frequency. Which I think is absolutely 💯 BS!!! I ran across it and figured it was worths a repost. So this is to the ones that think...