The Lilacs Will Bloom - A Story of Child Abuse and Faith

All Life Suffering... - A Poem

All Life Suffering...

All Life
Mystics Say
Nothing Suffering

Along the Way
Timeless Space
Nothing Supreme

No Thing Is
More Real Dream
Call Life Everything

But Illusion
Birth Death
Spring Forth Silent Collusion

Conspire Lightly
Drifting Dark
Less Notice Less Growth

Suspect
Singing Morning Lark
Notice Child Living Flower Dying

Know
Absent Lying
Less Truth

Cowardly Aged Lion
Lacking Claw
No Tooth

Stalk
Night Tide Hunter
Lesser Beast of Prey Pray

No Suffering
Bruised Children
No Pain No Rainbow

No Illusion
Children Hiding
Crying Dying Not.

All Life Suffering
Not
No Thing No Suffering.

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Death of Dreams - A Poem

I threw away
Yesterday
Things I thought were me.
Letters of appreciation
Pictures showing recognition
Records of successful deeds
Certificates
Thick as weeds
Growing wild in garden now forgotten
No longer tended
Fruits all rotten
To the very core of each.

Still I reach
Grope
Seek
Don't find
Meaning.
Blind
I cannot see
Something left of me
Something-not that trash
Burnt quickly to an ash-
Something
Meant
Only to inspire.

Longing.
An other dream?
Tired
I dare not dream
Dare not sleep.
Death of Dreams
Means
Agony
Screams
Wait impatiently.
Be free.
Dare to dream.

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