Patience
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The older I get, the more I realized that there is nothing more precious than time,
And I have finally realized that I no longer want to waste mine.
I see
Your beauty in your smile
Your beauty in your eyes
Your beauty in your cadence
Your beauty in your fragrances.
It took me a long time to realize that not everyone in your life is going to want what is best for you,
And that sometimes the people around you are going to want to see you fail because they know they could never do what you do.
"I can wait" I said, meaning it genuinelyunbeknownst to what it would be costing methey say love takes time, and that patience is a virtuewith how long its taken us, how much of this is true? Did I smother you?
For the first time that I can recall, this is theI knew deep down in my heart that the decision that I was making was the right one,
Even though everyone was telling me that there was no hope and that I needed to be done.
I've learned to eat cold pizza
I've learned to eat mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes, and I no longer eat all the individual parts of my salad separately
Something I never thought possible
Brain before body
Response to stimulus
Required for life
Required for happiness
If not made by you
It will be made for you
If not from you first
It doesn’t matter
Your perception
Be careful with your definition
Vital part of life
Forth then back
Teeter then totter
Deflected off
Not quite straight back
Creation lives here
Or so says the universe
It feels different
Makes you want to question
Don't resist
Pay attention
Power lives in the changes
The world turns
The sun rises
Morning breaks as you realize
It’s time for movement
It’s time for change
The world turns
Dark and long goes the road
Middle line stretches straight as if never ending
Lights only show so far
But the line streams out straight into the black
It based on results it won’t last
Failure is coming and shatters perfection
Have you walked the path?
Have you put in the work?
Our fleeting view of reality
Check points ensure accuracy
Balance your views
Mesh with humanity
Pursue beauty and truth
How do you love someone
Someone you know at their core
The ins and outs, good and bad
You know every thought and desire
You stand in judgement
Panic rages
Anxiety attacks
Fear abounds
How to make it stop
Weather it?
Fight it?
Breeding ground for inaction
It is not words
It's not only thoughts
Less talking required
Internal rooting necessary
Drive your legs down
Let your feet firmly plant
Future
The future’s power
Unlimited in nature
Where creativity lives
To shape the present
Past
Awareness within
Not looking out
It begins inside
Then pushes its way out
Self propriety and self focus
Creating yourself isn’t selfish
Why is it that we always want what we don't have?
Why is it that what is avilable to us is never good enough?
Maybe we are a society of people who fixate too much on chaning everything,
I can't tell if the voices in my head or the voices in my ears are the ones that are bringing me down,
I am someone who is always positive, and these voices that won't stop are the ones that are turning this around.
Some people may tell me that I am crazy, but no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to let you go,
When PRESSURE Comes Knocking How PATIENT Are You... ?
Do You Remain COOL Or Are You The Type To Start HURLING ABUSE... !?!
I Try To STAY COOL When Dealing With Fools... !!!
I have never been someone who would accept it when someone tells them no,
Because I believe that when things get tough, that is when you learn the most and you grow.
I’ts not that I’m insouciant,
I just can’t find the shape of tongue
To inform you of your ignorance;
To tell you the ways of the world,
In a moment or less.
Isn't it so funny how we all sit there and create these different scenarios in our heads,
But most of the time they are negative ones, and they are things that we dread.
They say distance makes the heart grow fonder,
And being apart from somelike you has made my mind wander.
I am constanty wondering what you are doing during this time,
In times like this, it is easy to feel scared and alone,
When you have no idea what's going on in the outside world because you are stuck at home.
With your loved ones so far away,
Take Your Time Man USE Your Mind ...
Before You Try To Ride With CRIME ... !!!
Take Your Time When You Design ...
Your Prose To Flow Poems In Rhyme ...
Patience is a virtue,
so I've been told.
But instant gratification seems so much easier,
so much more appealing,
how can it not be better?
Somehow patience supposedly
brings better blessings.
How does one fight for fairness without keeping score?
If you have the answers , please , please say more.
This rumbling and rattling in a vacant brain ...
It’s enough to make one wonder if they ever were sane.
Wear my poetry.On your skin.Recite parts of me. On your stretch marks.Carry my sensuality.On your tongue.
Speak.
Only about us.
Not forced
Victory does not care
Your past struggles mean nothing
5 a.m sessions for the perfect application yet you may still fail
Patience,
Dear child your turn will come.
Your mind is racing while time is still,
You wonder why your youth is gone.
Now is a time to think,
Tomorrow is a time to execute.
“forget your perfect offering
just ring the bells that still can ring
there is a crack in everything
that’s how the light gets in”
-Leonard Cohen
Patience
What is it?
A nonexistence.
The mind was wicked, and the body was involuntary.
Play around, aggravate sound, Adam found.
Indeed, an innocent one.
Patience
What is it?
Once upon a time there was a sad little girlwho sat at the swings alonewaiting for someone to occupy the empty swing next to herso they'd swing togetherand she'd feel a little less lonely
I just want to be the thing
You never dream
But always find.
The one who
Never makes it out
From the corners of your mind.
The one with whom you never knew
Notes flying ‘cross the page,
Singing hope and singing rage
Of how they plead to be free of the cage
And dance across the page.
Time sure changes everything.
It transforms the parenthesis of reality.
The things you once cursed,
are the same that you lust.
And all you once shouldn't
now suddenly, you must.
I feel like the clouds are in the sky
I feel like it is a gray day
But I look out my window and notice the light, the blue skies, the bristling wind
The chill still seeps in through the windows
When I realized you had moved on so fast, I realized that the pace was set.
I realized when your bright blue eyes never lit up when we saw each other
after a few days
Dear Dreams,
I 'm sorry this had to come across as adrupt
I never though there would be so many things in the way
I always thought that if you worked hard enough
If you just let yourself be driven by passion
Dear Lover,
So close yet so far.
What's going on?
It's a maze of love that I can't escape.
Where's the door?
At least a window.
Show strength when fear is strongest
Have patience when the struggle is longest
Show love when hate is spewn
For happiness will follow soon
//Patience//
there has been a change.
await, await ;
in the sound of fate ,
no mantra to convince you ;
no ecstasy to taint you .
far away, far away ;
stands
Frozen hands on the face
Echoing, echoing
Killing me without a trace
The silence, loud in my ear
What then, oh my, oh dear, oh dear
That’s it, I’m done, life’s not worth living
I'VE CONFUSED LOVE WITH HATE
AND HATE WITH LOVE
CONFUSED THE TRUTH WITH A BLUFF
AND WONDERED WHY LOVE IS SO ROUGH
HERE'S A TOKEN FROM THE BROKEN
ILL DROP GEMS OF LOVE THAT SEEM UNSPOKEN
“Love” is a powerful word
so full of intense emotion
and desperate desires.
“Love” can mend or break you,
healing wounds of the past
I thought I was special when he talked to me.
Our eight year age difference intrigued me.
Laughter and sweet small talk consumed our weeks.
His vast charisma and poise decived me.
Being in an unhealthy relationship can affect all areas of your life. In my case, it negatively affected my grades in school, my performance on the football field, my mood which hurt my relationship with my family.
Why?
You forgive
Even when I don't deserve it
You give
When I need it
You hold me
But never things against me
When I am mad
You are calm
I wonder why
Am I ready for you?The love you want to giveThe patience you have that's real.The touches I can already feel.Getting myself prepared for the thrillMakes me wanna already sign the deal.
You Feel Numb & Don't Know How To React, But You Also Wonder How Will I Get My Life Back Intact? You've Gone Through Hell In Silence, But Always Wiped Your Tears & Came Out Smiling.
She sits in her room everyday,
Making plans and hoping.
She sits in her room as the seasons start to change...
Spring to Summer,
Summer to Fall,
Fall to Winter...
On and on,
Feeling the warm rays of golden sunlight,
their gentle touch carresing
my exposed skin
as I lay still listening, watching...
The murmurr of the leaves
a whispering all of the secrets never heard,
Patiently waiting for the day that you come in and make volume of this hollowed soul,
Waiting for the pleasure,
Waiting for the ring of my phone,
dreams. path. future. past
i find these things don't always last
pain. promise. people. places
surrounded by unfamiler faces
another world, oh God's heaven
different eyes, didn't feel i could win
The spirit of an earthly man is effortless.
Buried in flesh and the ways of this world.
Though living each day in his master’s indulgence, he is without internal conflict.
I look in the mirror of the year and see him behind me.
January started with a ring. White, blue, me, you.
Curled together and sprinkled with glittering gems.
As the snow melted I took courses in depression and numbness,
Driving for 45 minutes
Bumper to bumper
Radio's broken and so is the AC
But, that's Chicago for ya
Every morning he wakes up and sighs,
To God he constantly prays.
He hopes that today is the day he won’t lament,
Because finally someone will notice his talent
As he shares his beautiful voice with the world
I am the early bird
Leaving my nest on the daily to catch my worm
But I am not your usual early bird,
For I just never catch the worm.
The early bird that’s always unlucky.
Do me like my name is music
Treat me like I am your music or muses to poetry yet to be created
Though physically isolated and mentally shaken
Still tethered and anchored
Patiently awaiting the weight lift
this is the day
the one single day
on its own its not much
but maybe thats the point
it doesn't have to be much
I mean we don't remember days
we remember moments
and not every moment either
Our words will stumble from my memory,
and I will not feel any emptiness
When the sun's light sees her own reflection
In me.
And then I will miss you no more
I will walk with quiet footsteps;
Sitting patiently,
Hearing closey for that tone,
Just to make my day.
When will it arrive?
Am I just wasting my time?
Must wait quietly.
Anxiety.
One of the many things,
That can drive me insane.
Consistently waiting for something,
Or in my case,
Someone.
So lay yourself beside me love,
and let's spend these lonely hours as one
Part your sweet lips
and invite me in
I fell my head begin to spin as
slowly, like fresh honey,
Little ego for self-esteemPatience when you go off beamStubbornness when you think you are just
I sowed seeds with love and hope
Scattered them on earth
Giving them lots of space
And warmth by burying it in soil
Nurtured it with manure and water
Sunlight and air will help me I was sure
Fate works in mysterious ways
Putting me through pain on most of my days
Mental and physical, it has no preference
For in my mind pain has taken up residence
But still I wonder for what reason this is
patience, for i have little if not time,and for you i'd wait until all else fades,until the sky cracks, falling earthward down,and the moments stretch out into decades.
So tell me about the things
that keep you up at night.
Tell me about the things you love
so much that you would fight
for them.
Tell me about where you grew up.
Tell me about why you grew up.
Did you ever see a future with me?
Because most woman want a man
But I waited for you to outgrow your
Boy tendencies
Yet you’re still here breaking Lego hearts
And drawing out our hopeless story
My hand is here
all you have to do is take it
you will have everything you need by just believing in me
We all say Emily Dickinson in our sleep
And watch Van Gogh as we eat,
I have a million thoughts running through my head and it seems that none of them have a clear answer for me.
that’s the problem, I don’t know
I’m on a wooden boat being tossed to and fro
A wave,
one word,
two syllables:
a melancholy taste left upon my tongue.
A hug,
one word,
two syllables:
a flashback of all the memories that were fun.
A kiss,
three words,
All of our years we work and try to see,
The girl or boy we are supposed to be.
We go through school being judged and bullied,
Just to turn around and judge and bully.
We are called to act with love and kindness,
CUT THE RESTRAINTS THAT HAVE HELD YOU BACK
SHUT THE DOOR TO ALL THE NEGATIVE SMACK
BUILD THE BLOCKS OF CONFIDENCE INSIDE YOU
SHILED THE PAST AND PUT OLD THOUGHTS BEHIND YOU
When you see me,
My tall slender statue,
Fashioned to rule.
You expect the typical teen.
In the drugs, alcohol, sex pool
No way, sorry, not my destiny.
Boyfriend yes, fun yes,
free to be me,
Scared in a world with a variety of people, the rejects, the nerds and quiet people .
With the people who belong on stages and are natural leaders , those who belong at the steaple.
"Patience", she said,
As she whispered in my ear.
All being's trials start here.
She drew me a map
And left me alone.
"If you want,
come follow me here."
With tears in my eyes,
Here I sitand wonder why.Why am I here?Is it just to die?Or is there a reasonFor this crazy world?A reason to be hereto spin and to twirl?
Sometimes, enough is enough
you tap out before the going actually gets tough
nevertheless, no one else is in your position except you
battling and fightng to get through
Strength is the river;
Though it seems to conform
To the limits of the earth,
With diligence and patience,
Even the most stubborn stone
Will obey the current.
God loves girls of all shapes and size,
and I get really sick of hearing all the lies.
You're not a piece of meat to be flaunted around,
No matter how sweet the boys may sound.
In every woman's life,
Love is a must.
Some men just think that means lust.
Forget her figure, and her face.
I swear some men are just a disgrace.
Love is a feeling, a heartfelt passion,
Blink
Too much light.
Wink
She's just right.
Squint
He's not there.
See
Them smiling fare.
Yawn
Took tired and weak.
I love snowflakes,
how they stick to my jacket,
as they fall,
like little shredded fairy wings,
soft and delicate.
I love soft blankets,
how they envelop me in warmth,
minutes later,
Sculpted from minerals and then the spirit flows,
Remember the garden, our special place.
Where I'd always be waiting for your pretty face.
For waiting and writing, these beautiful scenes
are all that I can do for now, so it seems.
I could see the universe
in your eyes, leaping through
my body, dripping from
my bones.
Your breath took
mine away. As we got lost
together in our infinite lust,
Let's do this before we expire
don't look away or you too will transpire
into a mindless individual a zombie to them
they take you and use you until you are dead
I see his shadow rising
I feel like going down
Once I feel my dreams
I can't understand how I feel
About this mystery love
Once I need know
How your heart works
I never stop thinking
About you
I will someday get to meet her
As long as I am able to save money
There will be a day when I am able to happily meet her
It is a matter of an exotic toungue and money, nothing more
As of now I am without gladness
A patient heart is well rewarded in time It understands the clock’s tick is a sign Each stroke a step to something so divine There are occasions we don’t fully understand A heart will break so it can learn to mend When life is truly ready, the go
If a stranger was the face reflected back
You wouldn't break his jaw would you?
Threaten to murder him for being black
Or beat him for loving his fellow man
Too often I see the withered dreams
I've been counting down the days
Untill I see you again.
It does not matter where or how;
All that matters is when.
Watch Time Friend of Mine
Brave and cunning
Clever till the end
Watch the red, as it spreads
All of us are like flowers,
we start out real slow.
From a really small seed,
we learn things as we grow.
To be better than someone else
is our focus rather than the flow.
Everyone has their moment,
Yelling at me 24/7,
complaining when you don't have your way,
calling me names when you feel like it,
think you're the king on the throne,
I wait until it's sucked in like helium.
It takes pain to know that you're alive,
That your heart is beating.
That your skin is feeling.
That your lungs are breathing.
It takes passion to know that you have the drive,
Everything is wild,
And Everything is thus something,
But will the tides turn,
Till we have nothing?
We lost it all,
Though we had it all,
Everything was all we needed,
You know your mom’s been coming to see you
And you should know every day I’m here too
My people been saying I’m gonna go broke taking off so many hours
Running to the store to get you flowers
Dear my love, whose name is unknown
I’ve encrypted my unspoken words onto this heart of stone
Each waking hour, each restless night, every passing moment all a paradigm
Despite the distance and the pain
even in my tears like rain
Just like the last leaf on a tree
The same as the way you have loved me
Even if the world ends
Everyday I make new friends
Good morning and good night
To you whose always let me down
We're dancing apart in this twilight
You're rising sun tares me down.
I followed you into te haze
Not realizing you never looked back
The seasons keep changing and I only grow older
In the summer i am wild and free like the bonfires on the beach
I am not searching for anything but simply enjoying life as it is
Life is simple
Then comes fall
"You cant change who you've become"
This phrase doesn't apply to you literarlly but figurativley its who you've made your self known to others
That DOESN'T mean you cant change yourself for the better...or for the worst
Help me believe that youre the right man for my heart..help believe that you can stand to be the mother of my future childrens...
The beginning of love is happiness
But when it gets to the middle
It begins to change
So try and have patince looking for the right one
Because the right ones are hard to come by
Patience is the key to love
That rush you dread as life crashes towards you,
Barreling through with unspoken emotions.
Guilt, remorse, and weariness threads a shadow,
A fifty-foot tower right over you.
fffffffffffffIn the dark of the nightBy the light of the moonI sat without frightKnowing he would come soon
I can't believe I was so blind,
To see the mistakes I made,
To see all the chances I could have taken,
To see all the things that went wrong,
To see all the things I could have prevented.
this place you call home, well it’s burning you down
find a place for change, take a chance, invent hope
you’re more than what you do and where you are
you’re beautiful.
You walk in the room
My hands begin to shake
You look at me
My heart pounds
I can feel it fighting to jump through my skin
You begin to speak
Everlasting, perpetual, eternal wait
Each moment longer than the last
Seems hopeless to leave it to fate
Each joyful moment too short to last
Biding time till the day should come
I cried an ocean of tears.
Then I swam through all my fears.
Just to get to you.
I was never afraid
To prove it!
I have always loved you.
You always knew it.
I would do everything
A misty dusk falls softly on the trees
Which leaves are crisp with water’s frosty breath.
Its rushing motion underneath their eaves
S’portrayed by hasty sunlight’s daily death.
And I feel as though
our book has not ended,
this chaper may have closed,
but I believe better ones are in the making
and in time our book will continue again.
As i sit there
Quietly and Wait
My dark surrondings I'm not aware
Not sure what fate will bring
Every second I hear
What may be the last
I am filled with fear
About some of my past
Stop trying so hard
And just relax
Take each day slowly
And give love back
Life is short
And terribly long
Painfully bitter
Yet a beautiful song
My breath loses thought, but my brain is reeling through images and I swear it won't ever stop.
A dose of fear catches hold of me at least once a day.
I do not write
I express what is dormant
this is not a poem
these are words formatted
from the grievings in my soul
the depths of which that is so persecuted
attacks my flesh for opening the door
When you left leaves blew,
away with my thoughts of you.
My heart grips like roots.
the essence of my existence. As fastpaste as I’ve taught myself to be, my true fulfillment lies in stillness. The tranquil serenity and peacefulness of the motionless state of the self, a time when I can thoroughly analyze my position in social
I
Love the way you stop everything and
Orderly tell me to sit back down, listen
Very closely to
Everything
You have to say in
Order for me to
Understand your world.
You know it's true when you only have reasons to smile around them,
or when your thoughts are flooded with their words and actions, your smile just sticks around for once.
I forgot
Those times I sat on my bed and cried, And sobbed my losses after all I tried
And you sat by my side and held me tight
You spoke comforting words to make things right.
So you ask me why I write...
You want to know why I do what I do?
So here, how about I give you a clue,
I am an emotional volcanoe just waiting to erupt,
but not in the way you may think, I don't live to dectruct
Him.
He's there.
Purple skater shoes,
His last name on the back,
Talking all gamer and yet focused on
Me.
I'm there.
Blouse and make up on-
Trying super hard to impress him.
When I see you,
the butterflies go crazy.
Flying and fluttering,
Telling me the obvious.
You smile and wave,
Seemingly thrilled to see me,
and I can't help
but smile and wave back,
If I could change one thing about my past
It wouldn’t be me loving you, or the amount of time and effort I invested in you...
It would be the oceans waves that washed against this brown beach
I am the girl your mother warned you about -
that when you're done with the easy lays
in beds that never get used to your shape -
You'll look up from your third drink
and see me standing there, patient,
I wrote this one at the age of 12.
This one goes out to my daddy, cause hes my best friend.
I know we always be tight until the very end.
Sometimes I loose everything and he is all I've got.
i watch the raindrops slide downi watch the cold creep upi watch the day turn to nightand i know i'm dying on the insidei want to tell you you're the onethe only one i lovebut i can't seem to find the words
I miss you now, but hold my tears
Knowing you're there through all my fears.
These days seem dark and filled with gloom,
Woven with trouble on a weaver's loom.
But through the clouds I see a ray,
Lonely Night
When I look at the see I only sea me,
Nothing special, Nothing true.
I wonder through the sand
Dragging my feet in the blue,
To my surprise
a little white shell caught my eyes
They say, love is complex..
that's complexity found in the emotions that are reaching at the brain, flowing into the heart but his definition fails to leave the lips of the one who's in love.
The only time I conquorThe only time I fightThe only time I feel, is only when the time is right.If I am human, and if I am true...Why do I feel nothing but when it is felt by you?Emotionally stable?
2 houses, opposite sides of the world
4 parents constantly fighting
6 brothers dirty and wrestling
5 sisters always borrowing
The eldest child is the guinea
The youngest is just spoiled
I fly in excess over the sun,
Ready for a rapture that does not come.
Although I travel in great speed,
It is I who has all the power and need,
To survive in the path of demons and evil things.
(poems go here)never look back at your past,
the past is past,
and nothing at last,
lool into the future
for what you might see,
is you and me forever
I used to be bound by the past
But when I was fourteen
At last
Finally there was a way out
Someone helped me
Happiness filled me
Inside and out
My church family really cared
Patience is a virtue;
To know you is to love you.
Yet still I cannot help but feel,
To me you will reveal,
Your hopes, your dreams,
Yet presently I know not your name!
I will wait and I will laugh,
Many people believe that time is moneySome add that money isn't everything thoughBut for me, time is simply trickyIt's the reason why I'm at a point so low
Hope deferred makes the heartsick
Toxins of hurt and shame permeating
Leaving fuels of carnal residue
Where pride flicks its presence and magnifies it all
I recall that pulse of summer,
vivacious and lively when I first met you.
Fall sprang into worlds of color,
I learned the meaning of Love is Blue.
Through the winter, snow sparkled down.
I await the benevolence.
No rebellion to be found here, nor even a challenge
just a confounded nomad seeking serenity.
I hope we'll all one day be able to break through the irony.
Why do the days have to end?
The lights go out.
The night begins.
The beauty of a summer's day
Darkens after sunset.
They say the bird's songs are lovely all day
My mother is special kind of woman
She is no ordinary mother, for her ways
Her ways are different, they are unique
As she shows love in various ways
Do not disturb the fragile likes of
time.
He, she, they
do not take kindly to the fickle sort.
I wish to behold before I become, I wish to grasp tranquility
void of trials
and
become half baked
MaYbE wE'rE aLl ToO eAgEr,
ToO gRoW uP & gEt a LiFe
MaYbE wE'rE aLl ToO eAgEr,
ToO rUn AwAy FrOm AlL oUr StRiFe
MaYbE wErE aLl ToO eAgEr
ToO qUiT tHe HoMe FoR tHe DoRm
The valleys green, the ocean blue
The golden sun in the afternoon
The soft brush of and offshore breeze
And in the fall, the piles of leaves
lyrics to dance words running
skipping Letter to Letter inklike waterfalling
curled paper edges hinting hiding sneaky secrets scribbled
to question is it shame
periods semicolons and Why i should do
come sit by my side.
i waited for you twenty seven years.
vain fantasies and
aches and
eventual numbness.
Our love is first class
Sit down and take a glass
Come and drench in the past
Long convos never cease to last
on the phone past 12
Will we ever go to bed?
Couldn't say goodnight
Knowing in my head
There's so much stress
The last forty days of school
With all of the reports and papers
Books and projects
Filling out papers
Application after application
All asking the same questions
See
The other day this girl I once loved told me I have issues
But that girl doesn’t know a thing about my life in Mogadishu…
The feeling of this pain is impeccable
~i waited
patiently…
as if my turn was next
i was just as naive as you
thinking that you were the best
you watched him cheat
but you forgot about the rest
forgave him time after time
Too many decisions.
What decisions are going to make my life right?
Thats all i am thinking about on this sleepless night.
Sometimes i want to give up.
Why cant life be simple?
This stress makes me tremble.
Why can't it be over?
Why can't it be done?
The stress always builds,
The tension never leaves.
I wish it was over,
I wish it was done.
To be able to relax,
To be able to be carefree.
The worst thing about myself is that I’m too goddamn impatient.
Though I’m not alone because I was born and raised in this nation
where waiting on anything from the internet to a Starbucks coffee
I don't know what being in love is like,
But some say it's easier than riding a bike.
I have a few ideas of what it could be,
And I hope one day it could happen to me.
Some people say true love is blind,
