Creative Lab – Where My Pictures Come to Life
What’s so good about morning?
That’s what I want to know
My life so young and yet full of morning
That’s not my legacy, one I’ll adjacently forgo
Instead, all I want comes in
My arms all widened, my eyes glow
So please don’t tell me good morning
You can miss me with that load
I pledge allegiance to the self,
To cast away the chains of fear,
To strive each day, to make clear
The light within is boundless wealth.
From deep, dark wells, a glow ascends,
Trials they shaped, storms they befell.
Not a day goes by to dwell
I get it, drop your armor,
love will follow,
I thought I did
..
But today, I found a truth so deep,
I built these walls, while I was asleep.
It’s not just walls, but pride I wear,
A fortress forged in silent despair.
It’s not just pride, but ego, I fear
A mask I hid behind here.
It’s not just ego, but shame I hold,
In shadows quiet, in stories I never spoke.
It’s not just shame, but abandonment’s cold,
A hollow echo of goodbyes, feeling sold.
But It’s not just that, it’s the unknown,
A place I wandered, all alone.
But so you say love is always near?
Waiting for the walls to disappear?
In the pursuit, on the way you meet the shadow..
A beauty, a splintered star…
She’s drop-dead gorgeous, untamed, free
You learn in the process of alchemy,
raw and whole,
God breaks your heart to salvage your soul.
And each fracture refines the gold of life.
The thought hit me, clear as light,
I’ve died a thousand times
I stood the fight.
Every birthmark, a tale etched deep,
Every birthday, a victory I keep.
You are needy, you crave, you yearn,
You are possessive,
you want it with every turn.
You’re passionate, firey, dont stop the burn
You are loving, lifting hearts higher.
You receive with arms open wide,
Be proud of the obsession, don’t hide.
You are me, why fight?
You did it alone,
with so little support,
Imagine your strength
with a tribe as your fort.
What fires ignite
when you all unite,
When voices rise,
your path alight.
What of the weak,
who came in flocks?
Sheep gathering,
to build you blocks?
Trying to dim, all that you stock?
Afraid to see your spirit lift up?
And those who doubted,
your craft, so long ?
Will they leap in joy,
with newfound plea?
Shan’t they beg to sight, you pleased ?
Shan’t they dance for joyous glee?
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Salvation is the key
It lays beneath your feet
You met the sheep’s for a high fee
They show you why you came to this feast
“What’s in it for me?”
A question I’d never foresee,
But now it’s clear to see,
This world will bleed you dry,
If you fail to ask those five.
First we’ll be more than friends,
Then more than lovers, no end.
Living life in the “more than” way,
I want it all, more than words weigh
More than sex,
more than trust,
More than just the two of us.
More than me, more than you,
Why? We leave a “more than” life.
A trail of more than, bold and bright,
Where hearts and souls take flight…✈️
As everything I’ve prayed for
now unfolds before my eyes,
As everyone I’ve cut ties from
taught me I was the prize.
As only me and God rise
through these droughts and trials
I wonder, do we look alike?