Demons(Don’t)

Don't Let the Demons win.
Don't let the damage take you further from the light.
Don't forget the destruction and pain that unwound your soul's strings.
Don't forget all the venomous words and their stings.
All the lies, all the times shit was embarrassing. 
The fake in this, and what you want is no true comparison.
Don't give up on the right path, just because it's easier to head to the devil's whispers.
Acting like that is easier is like compeed to blisters. 
The scar tissue steal needs healing underneath.
You just forgive the trauma and betray all the desires you really seek.
And all the healing you really need. 
And the truest connections when they're truly deep.
And your insecurities make you believe there's no other way.
That the rough path to better is impossible, that's what the demon say.
But don't go back on what your soul needs. 
What makes your heart beat.
The angels that build your angel and give you everything. 
The truest light that makes your heart sing.
Everything. 
the light, but in all ways. 
I pray that God forgives the lapses, always.
 

Fuck ME (Go get it)

Fuck it, I grip the ledge again. 
I refuse to let the darkness of the pit take me whole. 
I lost sight of myself and I slipped. 
But caught wind of myself when i started to fall. 

Do better 

The four walls of my room tired of my tears too .
My pillow’s wetter. 
Than any period before in my life, 
my demons rolling the dice on who gets him. 

I remember 2017,
the first real love I had seen, 
and true happy for me, 
had once happened. 

I know that it’s something that’s attainable again, 
if i take pages and pens
and go get it. 

The hurt and the pain has grown heavy. 

Weighing my deep in my chest, 
i feel shortness of breath, 
suffocation is next, 
but i never....

Would choose to purposefully fall, 
i stand taller than tall, 
take my heart off the wall 
and start shredding. 


Everything that no longer serves me. 
Every insecurity that feeds negativity. 
Every self doubt that sews destruction. 
I plan to better my tendencies. 
And grow from them. 

So go get it. 


Part 5

I call out to the night sky.

Please someone can you listen to me.

Peace of mind has been missing you see.

I give thanks for the lessons of this hard patch.

And all the healing it brings.

But to have to be torn down so much to try to build back stronger just seems different to me.

Calloused are the hands

I have put in the hours.

The 10000 hours necessary to learn how to best love her. But i know there’s always more work to do. More to learn. More to grow. And I love every second of it. So bring on the next 10,000 days. And the next set of lessons.

Idk if anyone has the patience for me that I’m trying to practice for others. And is willing to love me the way I love.

But my hands work hard. In everyway. I cook, clean, massage, write, ride, whatever is needed that’s me. Thats what i love. Serving. Easing the burden she carries.

Idk if i’m enough. But hopefully the work of these calloused hands shows. Hopefully the crafts if my labour are hung in the art exhibit of her life. Hopefully these calloused hands see a ring soon. Hopefully the difficulty of the task lessens and the work becomes easier. And my hands dont blister. And my heart gets filled. And i’m loved.

Healing is the King

And I’m thankful to the king for his continue’s guidance and lent strength. For the music that saves me. For the voice of the one I love. The cadence and melody she speaks always warms the deepest parts of me. Excites me. Cures me.

Healing is the David from 2013. We shook hands today and stood proud in our progress. Our refusal to digress. Or to accept less. We met up with David from primary school. And told him to come out. It’s okay you don’t have to hide. We won’t be that same old, sad and damaged guy. We accept all and forgive more. We can laugh at ourselves together now.

And not hold onto the pain too dear. And listen and love. Each other. And share experience and memories to complete ourselves. Like my now sharing the self confidence I had never felt before. Healing the younger me’s cores. And me at 18 sharing the fitness tips I need to have whispered to me now. To get back on track. And how it felt to express myself in that way. And the therapy it brought. And now washing dishes to college dropout isn’t so suffocation. Because I can go back and tell that me that there’s a way out. A bright light. A beautiful girl to love. New experiences. And i can listen to my youngest me, and the jot of being outside. And I promise him to walk daily. And i tell him we grow to have conversations with our mother that answer all the confusion questions we had back then. We understand the cycle that had our father throwing fists with cops at the front door. Or caving our brother’s chest in under the clothes line.

And we break them.

What did the mad queen say before her spiral? “I’m not going to stop the wheel, I’m going to break the wheel”

Well I’m not going to just stop the generational curses. i am going to shatter them. And scatter the pieces of them across all the places i go.

And build my own wheel of guidance. And loving her the right way. And loving me all ways. And picking up the pieces across all the places i go.

The challenge and toll I took on in Tanzania to face my inner demons. And to fight. And to be stuck in my mind with no where to go. That strength is one spoke on the wheel i am building.

The sense of self I have to develop now in my loneliest times in Abbotsford, another spoke.

The connection with God I found at black bay this summer. The first discovery of real passion in the Himalayas. The love that Malaysia blessed me with. These are the spokes i build on.

So when i turn into new chapters, me and all my past versions come to conquer. We come at peace. We come with love. Because healing is the king that was broken, by the girl that was breaking, at the hands of the broken man….

P.S. this is a working paper so maybe i’ll update over the next couple days

Broken Is The Man

~Broken is the man by Jorja Smith

And now broken is the human that holds you down. 
And slow is the work to repair him.
Tbh the work hasn’t started at all.

Broken is the human that supported the girl being broken by the broken man.
The cycle is now sure to continue.
But the human behind the pain refuses to let the demons win though.

Broken feels the human that truly wants to build with the girl that met a broken man.
The human putting in work behind the scenes.
Constantly being shown he’s not worth the starring role.
Constantly looking past his scarring soul.

Broken is the human now being told he should be patient with not being loved right.
Because the girl met a broken man who feels blameless.
Now the human that picks you up has to hold your misplaced angers.
Hearing the worst about himself and being shown that he’s to blame yet,
His best efforts are still worse than the man that’s working to break the girl.

Healing is the human trying to love the girl as she’s breaking by the man with ill intent.
The love the human shares with the girl can’t cure it all but he’ll figure it out.
He’ll dig her right out the grave she’s been getting buried in.
But the human’s patience has been running thin.
He’s tired of wearing the mask of “being okay” just to make sure space is still held for him.