I want, I will.

I want to be happy
not to be sad
I want to be content
not to be agitated
I want to know peace
not inner turmoil
I want to be stable
not to be anarchical

I want to know joy
rather than pain
I want to know love
rather than heartbreak
I want to trust
rather than doubt
I want to believe
rather than question

I will be happy
I will be content
I will know peace
I will be stable

I will know joy
I will know love
I will trust
I will believe

Ambition

Try to write then don’t stop

make sure to keep going
Ensure it doesn’t all flop
The tides must be turning
You feel it in your bones
that forever yearning
Stay away from the drones
who poison your learning

Step out from that daze

who lethargy does taint
To then tame the maze
the future you did paint
The world at your feet
you can envision it all
Don’t miss a single beat
To then yield that call

What of love?

Then what of love
of whispers in the rain
that of fleeting romances
of believing in vain

That lovestruck feeling
the misgivings of lust
floating on that cloud
of unwavering trust

Then hand it over
your heart on a plate
the anticipation building
cruely robbed by fate

That gut-wrenching pain
springing from deep within
return to me dear misery
of which I am but akin

Darkness engulfs

I see the light
now bright as day
it falls to earth
squanders away

Wilt in the sand
seeds of dismay
just add water
flourish away

Darkness instills
seeping all through
all hope now lost
look back and rue

Colours to pass
just out of sight
stuck in our bliss
we lose the fight

Expectations

For I’m sorry
that I cannot be
those little things
You expect of me

So watch to see
what it is I embark
will it then engulf
pull me into the dark


Then step away
further from fear
be willing to let go
in order to draw near

Look beyond it all
to trust that I know
believe what is true
my spirit will flow

This strange existence

How strange a life
you seem to be
far from the shadows
engulfed by this tree

The pretence of sorrow
swallowed by pride
free from this existence
taking it all in stride

Promise to always hope
past the blindness
and then see through
to all the greatness

No matter the boulder
remember to believe
my spirit will soar
without reprieve

Song & dance

View life as a dance
a mere thoughtless sway
so hum to that beat
mindlessly press play

Read between the lines
to find that key note
hold on to it tight
then discard the quote

Conform to chorus
and stifle that voice
a melody void
for there is no choice

Tap to the music
the song in your head
let your heart rejoice
compliance now fled