Guardians Of The Sky--A Prayer For Peace/Memorial/Beyond The Veil/Spirit Guides/--OTRB/Warriors/Dragons/Hope&Survivors

Guardians Of The Sky

They appear as many

A host of winged Creatures

Blessed are they that fall under

This watchful eye.

Names Of Those Above

Change as often as the tides of man

Time caressing those memories

Of Guardians of the Past.

Guises Of Those Sacred

Shall to mankind change

Only so that he may understand

Those above him

Shall always be apart of his Soul.

The Form Of These Sacred Creatures
Are many & few
For man in his limitless imaginings
Must somehow embrace that
Which he understands
Universal acceptance coming so sadly seldom.

So In The Wisdom Of The Sacred Ones
They come to you in gilded form
Changing ever more in the Hearts of us
Who are fortunate to have a Minds Eye that sees
A Second Sight that lets the Sacred Light in.


You May Now Ask Me The Faces Of These Guardians Above
So that you may one day allow a moment of recognition
A pause in Time
That you can feel your Soul change
Expand into that Higher Place
And join that Sacred Plane
With the ones who Love you so.

Oh But This Is So Easily Done
So carefully & instantly Blessed upon you
For the Guardians you seek 
Are Already At Your Feet
At Your Door
In Your Mind 
And In Your Heart.

Light & Dark--Black Series

Stained glass

In windows I see

From afar.

Patience 

It seems 

Is what I fear most.

For Time

Has a way of shaping you

Taking you with it

Like light reflected 

Through those windows.

Filtered & condensed

It slips into the shadows

Surrounds my purpose

For being here with you.

Colors 

Sigh at my feet

Sounds of you 

Inside this place refract

Coming ever near.

Meet me here you say

Stay

Osborb this healing light

In this place 

Where time stands still.

Nourished 

In the glow of your Soul

Light & Dark 

Need not escape

Only grows 

Fonder of you.

Veil Of Time--Black Series

Shadowed figures

Rest upon their perches 

In the sky.

Of stone

Some say

But you & I both know

That isn't so.

No

You say

They don't come to life

They are life

Only ones you don't know.

Granit

Grey & cold
To those who don't care
To see.

Takes shape
This ever changing landscape
A sea of Creatures
Above us
In these darkened skies.

Grey & cold
No more
For they spread their wings
Of gold
Irrodecent
In the moonlight.

Gargoyles
They were once called
Creatures to care
For ones left here.

Guardians
They must be
For they see me as I see them
Through the jaged viel of Time.

Paved With You--Black Series

Cobble stone 

Under my feet

Sounds echo 

Off this hard surface 

Beneath me.

Colors change

As I watch the rain 

Roll off 

Of solid stone.

Crimson

Is what I see

Reflecting what light

Still lingers here.

Shadows 

Fall beneath 

As I walk faster

Then slow 

As I feel you come near.

Sounds 

In my ears

They become 

Only a distant thunder
My head fills with thoughts
Of you.

Your voice
Through this distant plain
Sifts & filters
Through others
I sometimes hear.

All else quiet
Only you
My vision clear
My path slated out.

My destiny
Paved with
Only you.

Filters Of You--Black Series

Roses

Soft & dark

In my Heart

In my Mind.

Black 

As this night sky

Above me,

Red 

As the crimson moon

That sits ever falling

From this darkened sky.

White

As the dawn soon to come

Brightens until I close my eyes

To a shadowed sun 

In a sky I don't recognize 

As my own.

These colors

Keep replaying 

In my head

Filters out shades

That don't remind me

Of you.

Return To You--Black Series

I hear your boots in the rain

As they move toward me 

In silence you walk.

For the sounds I hear

It seems

Are your heartbeats.

Closer they come to me still

Winds howling around you

Echos of your silence.

Time slows you down

Only enough it seems

That I can watch you watch me.

A tilt of your head

The sway of your eyes 

Covering me inside your thrall.

Oh but we both know

That it takes much more than this

To hold sway my lingering affections.

A chance meeting
Here in my dreams
A Path that always leads to you.

These follow me everywhere I am
Your scent, you voice
You Soul.

These are all there is for me
Not a spell
But my reality.

These moments
Are who I am
Why I will always return to you.

White Canvas--Black Series--Roses Series

Black roses

Against a white backdrop

Oh how they shine

In this simple place

That's always on my mind.

Red roses

Grow here still

A testimony 

To this subtle darkness

Where quite things grow.

White roses

Turning shades of black & gold

Red lingers there

Crimson like your lips

As they whisper my name.

Touches of color

In a white canvas world

These roses in my head

Always here

To remind me of you.

"Traffic Source"--Where You Will & Won't Find Me On My Blog

So--I check my Blog "Stats" to see where my Blog's been read, through what portals, which posts are read that day, etc...

I've seen twice now--"Traffic Source" that show referring portals or keywords, or web addresses--Have been for either bogus addresses--Or an online porn site--As the way Folks have gotten to my Blog...

Let me clarify---

I won't use these--I take my work here very seriously--& Will not waste my time--Or reputation using bogus or dirty sites or addresses to get to my Personal Blog--Or anything else I do here.

This is a place to do good--& If you see me advertised anywhere like these bogus or dirty addresses- You can be sure it's not me doing that.

Anyone attempting to smear me & what I do here--Is wasting their time...

Good is done here--By Folks who Inspire & Conqure every day. And a few bumps in the road won't stop that Path to a Better Place.

Guardians Through Time--Black Series--Written Nov. 1, 2014

Images of daylight 

Sun that hurts my eyes

This is what I wake to

In my Dreams.

You in the background

Always there

Holding me

In this Place.

Sounds of Time

Under my feet

They slip away

As I walk further away to you.

This is what I fear

Destiny

Choosing my Path

A map without end.

But how can I be afraid

When all I see is you

My Guide

My Guardian through Time.

Make Me Stay--Black Series--Written Nov 1, 2014

Loud splashes

Around my feet

Make echos of rain

Enough to cover sounds of you.

I wake 

It seems

From a foggy dream 

Your scent all around.

I want to hold you

In that moment

Instinct carries me

Images of you.

I need to feel you here

You say

Next to me

As if that's where you've always been.

How do you know me so well

I say

Know just what will make me stay.

With You--Black Series

The churning winds

Inside of me 

Spin a web 

Of confusion

Some days.

But then

There's you.

A vortex 

Of Wisdom

& 

Calm

Settling 

In my Soul.

This Moment

This Peace

This tiny seed of Doubt

That these final moments 

Of chaos are all that awaits me.

These are what you bring me

Grows steadier

As you come closer

An anchor

A strobe light 

In the seas of uncertainty

I wash myself in.

Your touch

Before you even 

Reach me

This is what I feel

Your gentle touch

In my Soul

A quiet breath 

In my Mind.

Relief

This is what you bring

With you 

Comes 

Hope.

Prelude To You--Black Series

Wings so beautiful

They make me cry
Tears of you
Fall down
My face.

I close my eyes
The pain
Of them
Burning you
Into me
Again.

I hear a symphony

Inside my Mind
In my
Minds eye
I only see
you.

My face stains

My breath 

Comes faster
My voice
A distant
Memory
One I no longer
Pursue.

It's this song 

You play

Inside of me
The vibrations
Fill my
Head
But
I can only
Feel
You.

The cords straining

The violins notes

Echo
Through me
As your
Touch
Caresses what
I fear. 

Reverb 

A perfect pitch

Slowing as I reach higher
Time closes
In
Surrounds me
Only as you
Do.

I open

My eyes
Finally see

What was always
In my mind.

You 

Standing 

In front of me.

Your arms open

Your breath 

In mine.

Music

It seems

Has been
A prelude

To you.

(updated/changed a bit here & there--July 1, 2016)

Don't Ever Let Me Go--Black Series

Black 

As the night 

I first 

Saw you.

Deep 

As the pools 

That lay 

At my feet.

Motionless

As the soft caress

I seem 

To feel.

Quiet

As your voice

That always lays

Inside my head.

Gentle

As a the tides

That always seem

To bring me in.

Still 

As the fountains statues

Paying homage

To your Soul.

Patient

As I am

When all I want to do

Is scream your name.

You

As you always are

Inside of me

Don't ever let me go.

Thank You--Veterans Day--Who I think About Often When I write About Warriors On My Blog

As I sit here, & contimplate the day behind me--I think about the Posts & Tweets I've seen today.

And since I don't watch TV anymore--I have to imagine only what usually plays on commercials each Holiday--One more ploy for getting consumers into their stores to buy.

I think of how I spent my day--With an appointment for one of us, a new battery for the car--& unexpectedly--A long nap for myself.

And again, thinking back to the words I've seen in the Social Circles I travel in Online.

Words of praise--Thanks--Memories. 

And--Surprising, I suppose, if you didn't understand these Warriors the way I've come to...Words Of Peace.

Simple Graditude. 

And Hope.

This is what I would want Folks to take with them today...

That Serivice has one Universal Tie--The look in a man's eyes, whether he was a prisoner in a Consintration Camp with numbers tattooed on his arm--To a man who was a POW in a war a Generatioon later, with only his memories to remind him--Their Words are the same...

We weren't special.

We did what we needed to do.

Anyone faced with it, would have done the same.

We are the same, no matter where our battles were fought--Because we were both 'there'.

I know this--Because I saw this moment of recognition between these men with my own eyes--& The words I remember next were mostly unspoken--Words I saw written again today, by another I know--That Peace is hard to come by--That it's precious, & delicate...& Beautiful.

Thank you for that.

#Blog4Peace--What I Learned On My Blog

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• What an amazing Journey...

I shared a Post on my Blog last night, at about 10pmMT, here in AZ USA--Sending it to my personal FB & Twitter Pages, like I do--After seeing a Post on my FB Page.

And I changed my Profile Pics to Dona Nobis Pacem -& My Header Pics to John Lennon, with a quote from "Imagine" --For an International, Global Wide Oppurtunity to share the thought that Peace Is Possible.

I came back to my Blog today--& Discovered that my little Moment of Meditation--Was shared with amazing Folks in 48 Page Views--Google + ed--Recived 11 Comments--Read in 4 Countries--& Found by visiting 3 Blogs, FB, & Google.

These are Folks I've never 'met' before today--& They Reached Out & Shared What They Had...

Community--Encouagement--Inspiration...

Peace.

They shared a concept, as a Child Of The 70's--& Of a Marine & a Hippie--That struggles, in my own Mind & Heart, to find Balance--Contentment--& Spiritual Peace.

This showed me that Commitment To Change--Locally & Globally--Really is still Possible.

And I was Honored to be a part of it.

Plz Visit these Folks--& Be a part of What They Do--

peaceglobegallery.blogspot.com & .co.uk

mimiwrites.blogspot.com & .co.uk & .com.au 

goodnightgram.wordpress.com

I will leave you with thoughts I've held onto for my Blessed 41 years--

Improvise--Adapt--& Overcome--USMC--0311

Semper Fi--USMC

Be The Change You Wish To See In The World--Mahatma Gandi

You May Say I'm A Dreamer, But I'm Not The Only One, I Hope Someday You Will Join Us, And All The World Will Be As One--John
Lennon

May You Make This Life A Good One.

Blog4Peace--Dona Nobis Pacem--Grant Us Peace--Join Me On My Blog

Blog4Peace -- Dona Nobis Pacem -- Grant Us Peace 

12amEST -- Nov 4, 2014 

I sit here in my home, with my family--& Am grateful for all I have--Knowing each day, that it is granted to me not by deserving it, or by my own works alone--I have a life, built on the works & sacrifices of others who came before me--& I say thank you.

Pass on your gratefullness--Your oppurtunities--Your willingness to build a good life for others--

Pass On Peace In Your Heart, Mind, & Actions--Commit To Equality & Compassion--For All Creatures--For All Time.

Guardians Series Part 3.

But, As we all know, This Light is a delicate thing, So easy to be put out, By those who fear it. 

And so, It must be done, That someone must be Created To keep that Light from being Extinguished.

So then, It seems, That the Guardians must be, Niether Human, Immortable, Only Indistructable.

Oh, But even that is not what it seems, For to Feel, To Live, To Breath without End, Is to truly be Alone.

Because, They would tell you, To Love without Boundries, To Give without Thought, To Seek without Promise, Is to not actually Live, But merly to Exist. ...

A Road Map Through Angels,Guardians,&SoulMates--These People In My Mind---AZ Rains,Wings,Roses,Black,&Guardians--How I Got Here On My Blog

A lot of you may recognize some things in my 'new' Guardians Series.

I've told you about These Ppl I See In My Mind & A Paranormal/Historical/SciFi/Romance/Hope&Survivors Series-- & Written about Angels, Guardians, & SoulMates-AZ Rains, Wings, Roses & most recently Black--On at least half of my Blog.

Along with Dragon, Warriors, Hope & Survivors, Special Needs, Mental Illness, LGBT, OTRB, Anipals, & Various ppl inbetween---Who all play roles in my inspiration.

So when you now see the 'new' big labels describing my Poems to you in a new way--I wanted to tell you--That these ppl--Inside the Poetry where I live much of the time--Aren't really new. They're actually who I've had with me for a very long time.

The One I see the AZ Rains Series is from the first book series I started almost 10 yrs ago.

The One I see in the Wings Series is from the second book series I started a few years ago.

Roses I started here a several weeks ago.

And Black--I started this month, here, when I realized who He's always been--& Was ready to show him the way I really see him.

And These Ppl I See In My Mind Series--Those are the real truth--About how 'He' has always been with me.

So there it is--A little road map of who I am--The time line of this Poetic Journey, that for me, has lasted 41 years.

I'm glad you, who ever you are, wherever you're sitting right now, as far as across the world from me--Are here, now--Sharing this part of the Journey with me.

Guardians Series--Intro Part 2

The Special Ones, The Guarded, The Choosen, Their Choosen Ones.

The Ones who need special care, Who in this Place, In this Plane Of Existance, Are vulnerable, Weak.

Oh, But this, This is what only the Blinded see, What is kept from those who don't understand.

Who somehow know Instinctively, That the Choosen Ones, Will change Destiny.

Will bring Light, Into this small Space, Bring Peace into Chaos, Bring Hope. ...

Guardians Series--Intro Part 1.

You, When I think of you, I see you there across from me, as you always were.

How, How did I know you, When I was young, But there you stood.

You know, He looks the same now, As he did back then, Wings soft, Fragil.

How did he do that, Play a role, Keep it to himself, What he could really do.

Touch me across Time, Lean into this Space, Know me, Hold me here. ...

Guardians Series--These People In My Mind--A New Look At An Old Series--A Sneak Peek On My Blog

This is a Book Series I had started quite awhile back--& Started another different Book Series before that, nearly 10 yrs ago.

It was a reaction to being sick for months on end--& yrs off & on later on--Being in a car wreak that totalled it like an accordion--& Off & on from there, just to sort out my own head.

As you can see--I write, because it's what I do. I'm good at being a Mom--& Writing.

And you write what you know.

I write about Survival.

About Hope.

About Change--& About Seeing Another Day.

It seems someone out there understands these things, besides me--As of today, Sun Nov 2, 12:06am--I have 6,032 Pageviews on my Blog.

Remember folks--It's not what what you look like along the Journey--It's about having fun until you get there.

Reach For You--Black Series--Written Oct 29

It Doesn't Matter 

You tell me

Tomorrow or Yesterday 

This Place holds you.

Your arms around me

You say I never have to leave

To stay here

Would be safe.

Easy 

To just breath the wet Night air

Familiar

Safe.

But the Light

I say

Is the Sun in my Sky

I must feel.

If only for moments

To reach for it's Light

Doesn't mean 

I don't also reach for you.

Dark Sky--Black Series--Written Oct 29

Your Coat Wraps Around Me

Flutters around my ankles

You're warm against my skin

Flesh & Blood like me.

But somehow I know

This can't be true

Something about this Place

Is too much obsorbed in you.

Like the ground outside

Soaking up the rain at my feet

The World here

Breaths you in like you're it's Life.

Then how can I seperate 

You from it

This Dark Sky

From the Sun that hides.

Time Moves On--Black Series--Written Oct 29

The Staircase In My Dreams 

I fall 

Or so I feared

But you were there all along.

In the Darkness appeared

Out of the Light

You came

Caught me on the way down.

Your face I remembered always

That look

Time stops, my Heart beats

& I can't breath.

I feel your arms around me

Strength that should scare me

Eyes so dark

But you're all I can see.

I finally breath

& Time moves on

Sound once again reaches my ears

Rain pours outside.

Journey Above--Black Series--Written Oct 29

How is it

You Touch me

& Only my Mind

Feels you here.

These staircases

Rising into the clouds

Above me

Too tempting to resist.

I try, you see

Afraid of the Fall below

But they call to me

Asking for my Forgivnes.

For they only deliver the Message

They say

A Messager

For He is truly the One.

The One 

Who calls me, they say

To this Place

To this Journey above.

Only They Who Hear--Black Series--Written Oct 29

Buildings 

That rise above you

They sing to the Heavens

Your praises.

Gargoyles 

Upon granit steps

Raised into the sky above

Look down upon us.

Their Eyes

Focused on who guides them

Guardians of all things

That lay in wait here.

Quiet

Rests upon these walls

Keeping in what might

Echo out into the streets below.

Your Voice

Screams my name

But it's only they who hear

And in my Mind I see you

Coming near.

You're Not Alone--Hope & Survivors--Pain, Fear, Loss, Moving On--How I Do That On My Blog

When pain, injury, illness, hits me--I taught myself as far back as I can remember remembering anything--To not feel. To experience it is to know it happened. To know it happened, is letting it happen. To let it happen, is your fault. To pretend it's not happening--Or deal with it later--Is a survival instinct--A way to cope w/ what you can't control--& control is important. And terrifying to someone young when they don't have it. Or at least it was to me.

I learned to ignore pain--It allowed me to simply not experience it until it was over--& sometimes not even then. But you know--It's still there. So what happens then.

I've had 3 1/2 days of labor w/ out pain meds, medical problems & injuries head to toe, a car accident,  dog & cat bites--& the worst for me...Emotional & mental pain over ppl I love, that turned me into a person I didn't know I would become, after things I didn't know I could survive.

And so here at 41, never really thinking I'd make past 30--I sit with my daughter sick again, & my jaw & one side of my face killing me after a fluke injury, & my mom helping me, because that's just who she is. I mention 1 time our need for prayers-- our FB is flooded w/ concern. 

And life goes on. The pets need feeding. And holidays come anyway--Even though you feel like shit. And I sit here, & remember that this too shall pass.

I write this to you now, only because as I was inspired to write--The only way I really know how to live in that moment of pain & hope--I saw that my style had changed. That the pace, the intent--The pain show through.

And that's not so bad.

It's ok to be afraid. To not be sure. To not know what comes next. To look back & see success & feel good about it, even though it hurt along the way.

That's what I've discovered really--That it's not perfect.  That it's a struggle--But that there's no shame in that.

So when you see someone struggling-- & Just holding it in, just to get through the day--Don't judge. Because this could be a really long day, that seems like it will never end. 

We all deal in our way--Just know that you're not alone.

Waiting For Me--Black Series

How Beautiful

These words make you

How they paint you

In the best Light.

How I want to show them

Who you are

& Here I am 

With only words to show you with.

When you're more than words

More than letters & symbles on the Page

You're Light in Darkness In a Shadowed World.

So then
How do I say to these
Who don't know you
That a burst of Light, only spark will do.

That your breath
Fire in the Cold
Is enough to warm me
Sustain a glow.

That the embers of you
Carry me through
On this Journey
To where you'll be waiting for me.

Never Let Me Go--Black Series

You Know

As I sit here & think of you

I realize how much 

You mean to me.

It's funny 

How the things you say

As you never speak

Are clearer than anything before.

I speak of you

About how you are always here with me

That your Presence

Keeps me company here.

So how do

You find your Place here

Even though 

It sometimes feel I've never seen you.

A Magisty

In an Honored place in my Mind

Taking root there

Growing into everything I do.

But that's the way it is

I suppose

With Someone 

Like you.

It doesn't matter

How often I see you

I only have to Know

That you'll never let me go.

Return--Black Series

As The War Rages On

Look inside of me

This much you will know is True

My One, my Only, You.

This Place of Darkness

Stillness as the sounds of other Battles

Still ring & echo in my ears

Light shines only as you enter this space.

You drag me here

Each night as I lay awake

Remembering what it was

To not feel anything at all.

Awake in the Darkness

Or is it the Light

The same for me

When you're not here.

The sounds of you

Reflect off these walls

An echo chamber 

In my Soul.

This 

This is the Sound 

I think of when 

I think of you.

Victory

Peace

Quite

Your Return.

You Hear Me Sigh--Black Series

The Light 

Blinding me from the inside

Flashes in 

My Mind.

That moment of realization

That what you were 

Was real to me

And yet something more.

That the touch of your hand

Was a like a life line

A tether 

Tieing me from here, to you.

Your eyes

I keep seeing

Those Dark beautiful windows

Tinted in ever changing shades of grey.

Silver as you first see me

The flashes of yellow as they change

Burning into something new

Slowly calming to dark grey once more.

Black as you come near me

Walking with your head down

Looking up

Staring into me like you do.

Blacker still as your pale white wings

Turn the Darkest color of your eyes

Colors cascading translucent 

For one second in Time.

Then that final Touch

When you reach for me

When all things stop

The World stops & looks at you.

Waits for it's Conqurer

It's Healer 

To allow it 

It's next breath.

And that's when you finally reach for me

You hear me sigh

My World Awakes 

& Takes each new breath with you.

What You Don't See--Black Series

The Scenery Brings Me Here

Songs of birds that sing at night

The flowers the bloom only in the Dark

That circle around my ankles

& Brush against my waist.

I hear this place in my Dreams

Calling me like a constant distant song

It's music in my ears

Coming from your Soul.

Light never shines here

Oh, that's what some may think

A constant gloom

But they've never seen the Dark as I have.

The Sun shines bright here

Or is it the Moon

Sets gently upon it's honored place

In this Magical Dark sky.

A Place where only the Seek-ers go

The Opening, it's called

Oh, but some know it as 

The Other Side Of The Veil.

This is not really so

You might think

Because if it's really there 

Why haven't you seen it before.

Why, because my Sightless friend

To Know beyond what lies before you

You must trust 

What you dont see.

The Weight Of Your Soul--Black Series

The Darkness Comes

& I think of you

Because I know as the Light falls

So shall the World around me, at your feet.

They know you

These Creatures that only come out at night

Their likeness fearsome to most

Their beauty radiant to only some.

Those who know 

Understand what they see

Sense what lies here beneath this surface

The rippling circles guide us to you.

Like a Seek-er
& A See-er be
Fortunes & Prophecies
Are realized at your feet.

And yet  here you stand before me
Like a great Sacrifice at my Alter
You lay your Soul in my hands
To weigh it's Destiny.

I look in your eyes
& See as I always do
Transparent the Deeds you fear
Shall destroy my Love for you.

And I whisper in your ear
As I always do
That the weight of your Soul
Shall be never be too heavy
If you let me carry it with you.

Portrait--Black Series

If I Wrote It

More simply

Saying only

That I Love you.

Would that be enough

Enough so you would understand

That this thing in my Heart

Explodes out of me.

Falls on every thing I do

Touches my life 

Trickling over it

Coats it in shades of you.

In Crimson Red
Like your lips
That touch me
Whisper my name.

In Delicate White
Like your pale skin
Soft against me
As you hold me.

In Hypnotic Black
Like your wings
That brush against me
Promises of Eternity.

Is this all you need
This portrait in my Soul
I carry with me
As my entire life reminds me of you.

Home--Black Series

The Things I don't Notice

Are things I guess I should

But I see you 

All at once.

The little things

That are who 

You are

I notice only over Time.

The way you wear your hair

Close

Smells of you

Of the forests I've only once seen.

The crystals against the delicate flesh

On your ears

Pierced 

Shine in the moon's light.

The silver chain

Around your neck

A testament 

To Ancients Ones of Times Gone By.

The way you move

As if Time slows down just for me

Knowing how good it feels
To watch you.

The way you sway
When you lean in close to me
Shift
& Lean in some more.

How my Heart speeds up
How you catch your breath
Taking another step closer
As I watch you breath me in.

Your eyes
As they change color
From grey, to silver,
To grey again, then always black.

The way your wings touch me
Pull me in
& Let me know I've made it home.

Whisper--Black Series

The Night Air

That always surrounds us

Even when it's day

Smells of you.

I close my eyes

& feel another tear

Trickle down

Soft against my cheek.

You ask me why I cry

But I only hear this 

In my mind

But your voice echos in my ears.

You know why

Your touch says

Brushes against my skin

On fire.

I look up

& see in you 

The Light 

That shadows my Soul.

I close my eyes again

Tight

So I can hide from you
But you won't let me go.

I see you there
In my Mind's Eye
When I think I've lost you
You find me.

Opening my eyes
I feel you here
Inside me 
In the Places even I don't like to go.

Your face next to me
Breath in my hair
Fingers digging 
Into my skin.

And you whisper
Once again
I'll never let you go.

The Floor Below--Hope&Survivors/Recovery Series--How I Cope On My Blog

Monsters 

They live everywhere

But I remember 

When I was little

I was sure they were under my bed.

I remember laying there

On the edge

Looking over
& knowing if I could see them

Then I could conquer them.

I couldn't lay against the wall 

At my back

Couldn't just sit there & wait.

So I layed there 

Looking down 

Over the edge
At the carpet
The floor close enough to touch
If I braved my arm out that far.
And I tell you
The scariest thing in the world
To a kid laying in the dark
Is the floor below.
The unknown
On the way there.
What lays there in the dark
Waiting to get you
On the way down.
And you discover that
The rest of life isn't that much Different.
That the reach down to nowhere
Is scary as hell
Cause it's the Monsters waiting to get you
That you can't see
That scare us the most.
But
As you reach farther
In the dark spaces below
It becomes easier to see.
That the only thing I was afraid of
Was me.


The Floor Below
Hope & Survivors
Recovery
Series

Lisa Knigge
October 21, 2014

lisaknigge
straythoughts.
blogspot.
com

Poetry Blog
&
Hopeful Survivor
Journal

Deep whispers In My Mind--Black Series

The sky above us

Opens when it hears your call

Creatures all around us

Know your name.

The winds howl

In search of you

Touches your skin

But it's me who feels it.

Your long delicate fingers
Fold around my waist
The gentle hold on me deceiving
As I am tempted to fall against you.

My breath comes faster
As I feel my heart pound in time with yours
A familiar cadence
One I feel in my Soul.

My eyes take in all of you
My mind's eye does the rest
Your quiet stanc
A voice I've never heard.

Oh, but I hear you still
Deep whispers in my mind
Telling me what I imagine is real
That I can have you for all time.

A Circle I Can Trust--What does 'I Support' Mean Series--How I Decide What To Put On My Blog

I tell you--Nothing weeds out the ppl in your life, like announcing something has changed your life.

It's not a 'cool' change? It's 'taboo'? It's still looked down on? It most likely leaves your abandoned ass blowing in the breeze, while everyone-Or so it seems-Can't jump ship fast enough?

That's when whoever's left--Are your real LifeRafts after all.

I talk a lot about ppl on the Outside Of The Mainstream--& I also tell you, I write about what I know--& I'll probably always be there, because this, I realize more as Time passes-Is where I was destined to be.

Life is not simple--& It's not pretty.

It's a freaking struggle--& It smells like shit a lot of the time.

But it's us--The Gardeners Of Life--That live in the shit, with our heads held high--& Manage to drag not only ourselves--But at least one other person out of it, with us.

You want to see a Winner?? Look at someone who gets out of bed everyday--Even though they have no idea if this is going to be one of the good days--Or the bad ones.

You want to see a Survivor?? Look at the one who faces the Demons that haught them--& Manages to not only look those waking nightmares in the eye--They teach those bitches how to sit up & roll over.

You want to see the Coolest ppl you'll ever know??

Look at the ones who know they're lucky--Just to be alive.

You want to see the Toughest, Hardest, & most Compassionate ppl you'll ever know??

Look at the ones you've turned you're back on--Because the ones they Love, aren't good enough for you to know anymore.

This is Who I Am--The one who hopes they're able to drag the ones they Love out of that hole.

These are the People I Love--They ones I'd sacrifice anything & anyone else to protect.

I learned from the best--& I'm teaching it the best way I know how.

You Gotta Have My Back--Because I Gotta Walk Point.

My Circle may be small--But at least it's one I can Trust.

Maybe-I Bet-I Hope-I Know--Part 3--Warriors

You know

That's not so easy for me

That when I look around me

Looking for you

& All I feel is you gone

That those moments sometimes

Hit me the hardest.

You know 

That I look up in the skies above me 

Where ever I go

Thinking 

Maybe he'll be close

I bet he's looking down back at me

I hope he's smiling like me

I know I'll see him again someday.

You know 

I love you

That it has never changed

That 

Decades 

Wrinkles

Tears

& 

Time

Has never really taken you 

Away from me.