I will not pick up the knife to injure you.
For I remember well what it feels like to be cut
In many different places
By many different people.
I desire not to inflict
Pain upon
Another soul.
For with each wound I give,
I am pained twice.
Would you too let go your knives?
Your words and actions
Float like dandelion wishes
Upon the breeze.
You do not know where they
Might
Land and plant themselves.
Peace cannot come soon
Enough.
I embrace it with all my being.
Every breath,
Every cell of me.
For my heart is
Most weary.
I have grown tired of wars
Within and without.
I suppose when you are spent is when you relent
To it;
Becoming
The stillness.
Drained from the fight
You realize light is
The only way
You can
Rise another day;
To be love.
You must let go of
What could have been,
The “if”,
And
Love yourself anyway.
So many people feeling less than.
Surrounded by criticism.
Held hostage by
Those who hold onto forgiveness
And definitions
As power,
Desiring unobtainable perfection through their eyes alone.
Sweet soul,
You are perfectly perfect being human.
Perfection is accepting your humanness,
Our humanness
And the whole of us.
Our so called flaws are part of us.
They make us even more beautiful.
I was reduced to ashes when
You found me.
Your passion
Lit a fire,
An eruption of desire.
I am no longer under my control.
Relit from the inside out
Internal
Flames burn now
Where there was once doubt.
The wild ones.
You look at them and see untamed
Savages
Yet
You hide your tears and cry in secrecy
Wishing you too
Would be free.
I followed him into his garden.
And there we held each other
And listened as our hearts sang in
Sorrow.
The sky darkened
And that is when I heard
Him
Weeping silently.
We wept together
Holding on until our hearts began singing a familiar song.
And as the sky cleared we heard others singing out too,
“We have each other.
We have each other.”
And the rains of
Heaven
Are
Pouring down on me.
Drenching me.
Restoring me
From
Within.
Pardon me while I hold on to
You selfishly from time to time
My child.
For you are part of me.
Infused in my
Bones
And heart,
My being.
Peace settles me completely
When in my arms you sleep.
And supreme joy engulfs me
When your hand in mine
You keep.
Eternally
My heart exceeds mortal capacity
As
I watch you soar.
And always here I am with
A heart of flame if ever you need more
Kindling to begin again
A fire of your own.
Always
Always
A constant abode.
Chole Into Diamonds 