A Declaration To Stand

I take a deep breath.
Let it out slow.
Let the pain of the world fall away.
Don't let it touch me.
I wont let it touch me.
I refuse to be made to feel this way.
Like how I feel,
and how I think,
how I see the world with my eyes
is something I should be ashamed of
Something I should be trying to hide.

I want to feel happy.
I want to feel free.
Simply to be who I am.
So I say this to you,
whoever you are,
this is my declaration to stand.
To stand for a cause,
for what I believe,
for the person here at my side.
For the love that I feel,
the love that we have.
For them, I will no longer hide.

In the Shadows

Have you ever been so lonely,

that you see faces in the shadows?

They look back and see you too,

and all the things you don't show?

That hidden behind a facade of peace

churns a stirring tide of affliction?

And that you've been pushed aside and ignored at times;

suffocating in self-restrictions,

because self-assumptions of failing notions

now impede all your attempts at flying

high above the mundane world

and all the let downs you'd be denying?

Sometimes Is Not Now

Sometimes,

it's better left for another time,

to talk of what was meant between the lines

of what you said and what it was I heard.

But then again,

I can't just ignore that fiendish grin,

all those little digs you've been digging in,

and how drawn lines have blurred.

So can I disregard

all those things you said to break my heart,

all those vicious lies told from the start?

My heart and mind, they're just not so sure.

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The answer to the riddle was your mind. It wanders, you can speak it, and it gets lost.

PS. Loved the poetry. Heartbreaking yet beautiful.