Life keeps trying to knock me down,
With problems thrown my way.
It makes me wear a fitful frown,
As blue skies turn to grey.
I've taken knocks all through the years,
But still I battle on.
Pleasures often plagued with fears
Are what I feed upon.
Tarnished dreams still have their place
In this imperfect world.
A smile can still caress my face
When triumph is unfurled.
Two steps forward, one step back,
Is how it often goes.
I compensate for what I lack
By keeping on my toes!
Life keeps trying to knock me down,
And sometimes it succeeds.
But I can take and break that frown
By tempering my needs!
Copyright © Robert Haigh 2017
Writing these poetic sentences as my urban repentance.
Blessing my adversaries with passive vengeance.
That's basically forgiveness and if they don't accept it.
I'm cool with it I got to use my energy more positively.
Can't just waltz in the Devil's Advocate.
Got to make a decision in the hour of reckoning.
Either chose the way of truth or commence to living lies.
A life of fabrication is nothing but false statements.
Also the malignant information that has infiltrated our generation.
I'm not speaking this way to traumatize or frightened.
I'm here to open and enlightened your minds.
Now it's time unify and put genocide to a screeching halt.
In this day of age we're in pain but it's not our fault.
We just caught in our twisted history.
Years of misery if you look at the news you'll see a cruel tapestry.
Painted with the tears of fallen angels.
This is how we was raised to hate and embrace the division.
That's why it's soo much tension killing a man for religious differences.
Then ridiculing someone because of their appearance.
I only ask why?
Why he or she must die?
Why these children get victimized?
Why we must divide?
Time for us to no longer hide behind our false pride.
I apologized to anyone I ever offended and if you do the same we can make a difference.
Call this our urban repentance!
Gone and running in an irreversible tension
And 10,000 miles left in question
Of ideas we just forget to mention
And the thoughts are left in the dark and disappear
and in comes walking, the unavoidable fear
A unknown direction, a road we somehow got sucked in to steer
Trying to take calm within the unpredictable shadows
Take control of your senses and dodge your arrows
and forget all of the anxiousness that somehow follows
My words,
full of thought
Laced with emotion,
Quiet whispers
trailing off,
But not,
When right now,
Feels just
Like shouting out
Into the open
The Still
Darkness and uncaring
Pitch black end,
My heart asking
Are you even listening?