Love helps us grow,
And reach the heights,
Of self-accomplishment…
And lends its sights,
On humanities betterment;
And future flights…
Of fancy.
New concepts…hopes,
Lift hearts and minds,
To the breadth of spacetime…
Reading the signs,
Of eternal reason and rhyme,
Which realigns…
Man…with God.
K. Aldaya, 3/6/23
Picture: By Casey Horner on Unsplash; https://unsplash.com/photos/JIdmuiF9luY
I walk away from yesterday,
With hope upon my back;
It weighs me down as I make my way,
Toward a future, and there is no turning back.
What if I can not take the weight,
Of what will and won’t be?
Will the journey be worth the fate,
That the choices made, will cultivate for me?
I know not where this path will lead,
Nor how to grasp each day.
All I know is it’s best to concede,
Then stand in place, never moving either way.
I walk away from yesterday,
With hope upon my back;
It weighs me down as I make my way,
Toward a future, and there is no turning back.
K. Aldaya, 4/6/18
Picture: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/676096
Into the world my child, she flies…,
Away and soars; but I am scared.
Will she be safe and always wise?
Did I teach her everything,
She needs to touch the skies?
And can I trust the world which I’ve never trusted?
To care for and protect one of my dearest treasures?
World of people through whose acts I am disgusted.
Who poisoned my heart until it broke and rusted.
Yet even I cannot protect,
Her, or him, or I from this life.
Control: an illusion’s inject,
So life we do not from the start reject.
If we thought about how each moment is taken,….
Stolen right in front of our eyes: so we close them;
We’d go crazy or mad, and sickness awaken.
So we say: “Reasons are not godforsaken!”.
Whether there’s meaning to it all,
I know not and I dare not say.
I only know what’s to fear therewithal.
I pray she’ll be able to fly when in fall!
—-praying: “Don’t be like me…., Please don’t end up like me at all!”
K. Aldaya, 8/6/13
Picture: “Tiny Dancer” by insanelaurenjane at Deviant Art; http://www.deviantart.com/art/Tiny-Dancer-352280439
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