Journal Entry # 109 – We Must Walk the Path

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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. – Buddha

Journal Entry # 108 – My Wounds, My Words

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A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. – Criss Jami

Journal Entry # 107 – Shhh!

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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. – Rumi

Come To Me Again

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If my trial has ended,
why do your stones still lay at my feet?
My deepest wounds will never heal until their forgotten.
No, always they fester, they ache,
like my broken heart which is bled to near death,
over and over, as I lay in this cold dark place alone.
I had to run from the pitchforks and torches.
Chased away, like a monster…
who once held the hand of a princess.
I still look for her in the moon,
wish for her in my dreams.
Come to me again my love in pardon,
or come to finish me off instead.

A Mermaid’s Lullaby

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A hill where a mermaid danced,
lay marked by a single stone.
Tales left to imagine,
on the night when the harbour’s alone.
The land once rose above her,
to be the brand new sky.
She screams from beneath the ocean,
but no one hears her cry.
Come dance again dear lady,
I feel your song, a boy.
Help me free your spirit,
from this fishermen’s lullaby.

I Can Tell its Home!

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grant me that yesterday tomorrow
I want to run again in November rain
taste once more, those raindrops
pinch me because I’m alive

let me feel it to the bone
that day…
I wore the fog home

seagulls bicker
over drenched catch laid in blood
but that day, no matter
t’was Mother Nature’s chore
all backdrops to my soul

my lungs, they catch up
though heartbeats have no pace
one listen to the ocean
one breath to the shore
I can tell it’s home

Journal Entry # 105 – Focus and Keep Aiming!

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“An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means it’s going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming” – Unknown

Journal Entry # 104 – Live Life, Not Loss!

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Losing someone in your life hurts. But, what hurts more, is losing yourself over and over because of it. – Ash

Journal Entry # 103 – In My Eyes

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As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.  – Criss Jami

Journal Entry # 102 – Happy New Year!!

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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung