Battling truth

Truth_by_damnengine

Can it really be four years later?  Almost four years since I first felt something so unthinkable that it knocked me back a few feet, leaving me unsteady but sure?  I blame that sureness for pushing me head first into a battle, I know now, I was nowhere near prepared to fight.  But even still, I wasn’t scared.  Never scared.

My fearless demise.

I faced seventy eight reasons that you were not here with me head on.  Only problem, I turned my back on the one that held all the power to conquer me.  It snuck up on me.  I lived in confidence that you never felt a thing did not even exist.  I slipped.  Slept.  Then, all at once…my valiance was captured and could do nothing more than surrender under the  truth of the matter.  Its force coerced my elbow to raise, fist reluctantly gripping the tattered white cloth of giving up. 

 

Being fearless has shackled me a prisoner once again… only this time in reality… or has it freed me?  

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Funeral_for_a_Friend_by_lessthanernie

Oh the tangled web we weave with the silk threaded thoughts within our own minds
thoughts that keep us in sleepless wonderings
slumberwalking while fully aware

with a heart that loves deep
I built bridges bound with excuse stained
wood grain
tied with hope’s rope
over burning rivers
only to cross over to the other side of you
I set the flames
smoked the embers of faithless acts of kindness
&
beauty betrayed by want

I tore the stitching of my heart
nearsighting the truth
stretching its distance too far for the naked eye to see
all that mattered was the love for you…living in me

deep within its solitude
I am certain it will remain;
far beyond today
tucked away
silently cared for by the trickle of sweet memories
that escaped the ruins of me dangling in wait
for you to love me too

‘one day’ bends its knee in honor
with a promise
to never again speak of this which echoes redundant soaked desperation
that now only embarrasses my dignity

I fought you
so passionately
questions so loud… the answers I could not hear
I apologize… to you
more so to myself
for prolonging the mourning deep into night’s blinding darkness
where the shadows of my words will blend in
&
disappear

my last piece

at last peace

you have always warned me what my desire writes - yours cannot read
untangling myself from silk threaded thoughts of a dream lost
&
never found
finally… I believe you

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