Sunday, February 27, 2011

what is the point?


what is the point…
when you serve others and give of yourself only to be unappreciated?
what is the point…
when you study for days to pass your mid-term and still get a C on your test?
what is the point…
when you ask the girl of your dreams out week after week and she still says no?
what is the point…
when life can’t get any more difficult and then your car breaks down?
what is the point…
when you are just beginning to love your job and find yourself unemployed?
what is the point…
when you open your heart to a friend only to be stabbed in the back?
what is the point…
when your fiancé tells you she loves you but fails to show on your wedding day?
what is the point…
when the trials you encounter seem more difficult than you can handle?
what is the point…
when you feel forgotten by friends, family and God and don’t know how to keep going?
what is the point…
when you have everything going for you one week only to have your dreams shattered the next?
what is the point…
when life always seems to remind you of the cruelty of human nature?
what is the point…?

what is the point…
when a friend calls just to see how you are doing and tell you they care?
what is the point…
when no one wishes you a happy birthday all day only to find everybody at your surprise party that night?
what is the point…
when a plate of cookies appears just because?
what is the point…
of having friends who care and give life meaning?
what is the point…
of focusing on the negative when there is so much good to be noticed?
what is the point…
of enjoying every minute of life because it is another minute you have to live?
what is the point…
of life?

what is the point…
to live, to die, to love, to be loved, to learn, to teach, to influence others, to be influenced, to understand, to be understood, to remember, to be remembered…

what is the point…?

living life is the point…


Monday, February 21, 2011

Coming Up Empty


Questioning life for all its worth...
...and coming up empty
Looking for hope and the futures birth...
...and coming up empty

Searching for meaning amidst the strife
Searching for truth in a world of pain
Searching for peace instead of war
Searching for love despite the game

Questioning only results in more
Conflicting concepts confuse and pollute
Truth elusively slips through my grasp
Answers are fleeting and thoughts rendered mute

I try, but I'm
   coming up empty
I'm searching, but
   coming up empty
I want answers, but I'm
   coming up empty

I just keep coming up empty

Sunday, February 13, 2011

A Thought


A thought is a terrible thing to waste,
A thought is a fragment of time and space.

A thought causes us to reason why,
A thought will often cause me to cry.

A thought is a place to search for peace,
A thought contains feelings of love and ease.

A thought is the only secure abode.
A thought is my private place to go.

Saturday, February 05, 2011

Reconciliation


Pain. Anguish. Frustration.
with life.
with my Life.
but why?
are emotions ever easy to explain?

Joy. Love. Content.
with life.
with My life.
why?
because I have so much.

Why the contrast?
Why the opposition?
Where is consistency?
Where is symmetry?
How do I reconcile the disparity of my emotions?

I don’t.
I just accept that they exist.
Independent from each other,
but united in me.
Reconciliation of differences only expounds them.

Each attempt in the past has failed,
So I move on.
I accept them.
I live with them.
I even love them.

Pain. Anguish. Frustration.
Joy. Love. Content.
Peace and Happiness
Sorrow and Fear.
All let me know: I’m alive!