Lyrical Essences: Words & Emotions: October 2011

Monday, October 31, 2011

Today

Today my soul just opened up.

I didn't know it could.

I'd heard it happened to other people

Never thought one day would be my turn.

Today I saw You

For the first time,

And it seems a little odd

That you'd be around someone for so much time,

And find you don't know them at all.

Today I chose to let you in

Where few have ever trod.

Today I decided to take a chance

On this "Person" we call God.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Divestment

It's time...

For all the years spent trying:

Be stalwart, be calm,

Patient and kind,

Yet ever armed;

Be wise and subtle,

Be firm and yet humble;

Be genuine but know how to fake,

Bend like the green willow but never break;

Never let them see behind your game face...

All the while knowingly lying

For the sake of conforming

To social grace.

The walls I built with reinforced steel

Turned into a prison that would not yield

Even to my hand,

When, at last a man,

I came to understand

That in weakness there can be strength

In awkwardness, stealth

And underneath poverty, untold wealth.

When at last I opened my eyes

Finally beginning to realise

That I'd read the signs wrong

That I'd been brainwashed all along

Into thinking I needed to kill

All the while amassing debt in an unpayable bill,

Keeping me enslaved, effacing my will;

Leaving me numb, soulless and ill

But demanding more and even more still...

So I decided

It's time:

Time to let go

Time to strip off all the masks and pretense and ego

Time to look into the mirror and finally know

What's really there so I can undergo

The metamorphosis that must inevitably follow...

Time to put all I've learnt to the test.

Time to come face to face with my best.

Time to be strong and leave fear powerless.

Time to be vulnerable, not time to hide.

And at the edge of this decision, I cried.

Shameless...

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Flip It

I don't want to wave this

Like a banner

Because I don't see why I should.

And I don't want the word spreading

Like wildfire

Through the hood.

What we have

Is just for us two

Although you seem to feel

It'd be better if the whole world knew.

I'd much rather it remain

A hidden delicacy

Savoured secretly

In comfort and privacy;

Devoured greedily.

But the DL isn't made

For longevity

And people are beginning to get suspicious.

Friends and family are poking around

Like packs of rabid sniffer hounds.

So perhaps it's time to make a move

And take this public;

Go on the offensive so the busybodies are routed

Rather than sit back and wait

Until we get outed.

Quotes

It's the internal, not the external, that affects the eternal.

There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God?" Maya Angelou

Old stories are like old friends. You have to visit them from time to time. - Old Nan. A Song of Ice and Fire. George R.R. Martin

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends. - Maya Angelou

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Unknown [to me ^^]

One who can't cast away a treasure at need is in fetters. Aragorn, The Two Towers. J.R.R. Tolkien

...there is magic in knowing that, while not everything can be repaired, most everything can be survived. Grey's Anatomy

Cada momento de minha vida tem que dizer "Estou tendo a melhor experiência do mundo agora". - FrasesDoCalvin, Twitter

The woods are lovely, dark and deep but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep... R. Frost

What is summer but a cruel trick of the gods to a child of tropical birth?

There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You'd think the dreamers would find the dreamers, and the realists would find the realists but, more often than not, the opposite is true. You see the dreamers need the realists to keep them from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists, well, without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground. - Cam, Modern Family 23/11/2011.

At a certain point in your life, probably when too much of it has gone by, you will open your eyes and see yourself for who you are, especially for everything that made you different from all the awful normals. And you will say to yourself, "but I am this person." And in that statement- that correction- there will be a kind of love. - Miss Dodger, Phoebe in Wonderland.

Les obstacles sont faits pour être surmontés. Patrice Martorano.

Tywin Lannister: "I don't care what people believe and neither do you."

Lady Olenna: "As an authority on myself, I must disagree."

Game of Thrones.

The road is like a great river. Its springs are at every door and every path is its tributary. It's a dangerous busines, ..., going out your door. You step into the road and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to. - Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring. J.R.R Tolkien

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. - A. Dumbledor, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. J.K. Rowling

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death and judgement, for even the very wise cannot see all ends. - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring. J.R.R. Tolkien

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. -Buddha

God's inverse of Murphy's Law: "If anything can go right, it will; nothing is as difficult as it appears; if anything good can happen to anybody, it will happen to me." -Joyce Meyer

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truely want to become. - Steve Jobs

Still struggling... but sticking with the game. It's never about how we start. The outcome will be determined by the effort throughout and consistency. - S.N. Sayers

We may not be able to prevent the birds from circling around our heads, but we can keep them from building their nests there. -Unknown

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgive yourself- no one else will. - Maya Angelou

"I'm not sure if I'm afraid of death. But I've made it a point not to die stupidly because if there is an afterlife, it would be kind of a drag to spend eternity feeling like a dumb shit. - Levni Yilmaz

Je ne suis pas triste de vous quitter ; je suis content de vous avoir trouvés.

"Patience doesn't mean waiting around forever. It means waiting around until a resolution is reached, until a conclusion can be drawn." - Emily Owens M.D.

Frodo: "I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened."

Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." The Fellowship of the Ring. J.R.R.Tolkien

"Patience is not the ability to wait. Waiting is a fact of life. Patience is the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. - Joyce Meyer

"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule." Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings.

"El amor es como el WIFI: esta en el aire pero no todos tienen la clave."

"Hunger contains everything you ever thought you knew about yourself." Life of Pi.

"...[worrying] shows God that you're paying attention- that you're not getting cocky. Who's the person that always gets the piano dropped on their head? The one whistling not the one looking up." Frankie Heck, The Middle.