So, I’ve got questions unanswered
I’ve had prayers go unheard I’m sick of paying your ransom And believing your word It’s time I straighten my shoulders Time to smile away the pain It’s time that I… Start living again I’ve spent this time driving solo Shaking fists at the sky Walk around without knowing Of the tears that I cry It’s time to reach for the stars and See my dream’s still alive The paradox Personified Chorus: I gotta fly tonight (Unconquerable) Defying gravity (Welcome to my world) The memories lead the way (The grain of sand now a pearl) I am Unconquerable Ambition’s now been ignited; Unleashed fury within A catalyst through the silence Hope saturating skin I know that I am not perfect But I’m perfectly complete No longer dwell In obscurity So I trudge and I climb and Believe faith as I crawl Transforming live to a life Lift myself up from the fall What cultivates motivation? Every memory leads me home Finding strength In what’s now gone Chorus It’s time to reach for the stars and See my dream’s still alive A paradox Personified Chorus So now I live my life. Unconquerable.
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I’m drowning
This ocean of despair thrashing me The impassioned sea around me Churning My emotional oxygen almost out. I don’t even struggle anymore The light fades as I sink deeper It’s quiet now, black as the universe Silence that is deafening Circumstantial relationships have left me Bereft I won’t apologize for my faults But I am truly sorry that I have failed Orphaned and alone I live; I die Like walking the high wire While the bleachers are empty To see the view, just once Then unskilled Plummeting No memories flash No moments stand out Fractured The purest red behind my lids I calmly watch the flood A thrumming in my ears Then only darkness Just a carcass remaining But what becomes of the unclaimed soul Imperfectly driven to fly Transient on this Earth But inconsequentially intensified? An authentic solipsism In confusion always lies Insufficiency All hope is now denied. Reflecting tonight, I ask myself
Has all of this been genuine? Can I ever be the same again? Never before have I felt Ever so fragile, fractured, yet This is now the memory I can’t forget. Carefully navigate this path A heartache that can’t be denied But maybe I’ll escape the power held by time. There is no sound to breaking hope But pure destruction now controlled I disengage from the emptiness untold. For once unconquerable, I rise An untamed strength formed by the stars Whispering an illustrious faith unmarred. Fueled from within; dreams still unlived Life resonates ever faithfully Never too broken to be repaired - just carefully. If nothing we do truly matters Then ALL that matters is what we do So I search my soul ever looking to unveil the truth. Without filter, I share my world No hesitation or regret Intensity fuels growth; I must not forget. I allow my light to shine unmasked Forgetting some get overwhelmed Maybe even now circumstantially beyond my realm. Or perhaps too lost to ever be found Inevitable change but optional growth But forever forward is my zealous oath. Experience fuels and innovates. The loudest mind I’ve ever had A now elegant flow from the once beautifully mad. Resolutely calm I dance once more These storms have washed and dulled the pain I’ve lost the world, but the universe I’ve gained. |
Julie WestphalAuthor, Poet, Dreamer Archives
February 2024
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