This is one of my favorite poems. I want it on my tombstone upon my demise.

AFFIRMATION

(Drawn by Anonymous, 2nd Avenue F Train Platform)

 

I AM.... WHAT I CREATE. 

MAKE YOURSELF.

 

Interupward

We're propelling each other forward. Feel the cool wind whipping against our faces as we dance in the distance between us and our old shells. A distance created by these changes that WE are creating.

I like the wave we're on. The things that dont matter quietly falling apart as we push, hard, and the things that do grow strong.

I look forward and I see us as we pause to sit with each other, with hot faces and warm hearts, knowing we helped each other, held each other while giving space to each other. A silent glance exchanged that without any sound says "Look how far we've come. WE MADE IT." 

Then,
 we do it all over again.

Water

If I genuinely want your happiness then I can't stand in its way.

I want to be happy. I want you to be happy too.

I want to be proud of myself. I want you to be proud of yourself too.

I love you. I want you to love yourself too.

Even if it means a reluctant goodbye

to plans I had for us and the things that include a "me & you."

It's OK. Life is transitory that way, and love,

true Love isn't set in any particular way.

Love folds and bends like the waters of a river around and over

the pebbles in its way.

I'll be here always.

In love. 

In all ways.

The Paradoxical Commandments

by Dr. Kent M. Keith


People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.


If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.



If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.


The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.


Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.


The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.


People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.


What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.


People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.


Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.



© Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001

WORTH SHARING AND LIVING BY.

Love Always,

Christina

Streamline

I will keep these emotions encased in a sleeve
and pointed away from my face.
Left to their own devices
they'd cause some sore eye or another to bleed so,
yes, I'd rather let you guess.

Guess wrong,
wonder more,
and guess again.

Speaking less starves my regrets.
In the paddings of my mind all things uttered can be safely unsaid so, 
yes, I'd rather let you guess.

I'd rather my thoughts stay missed and left

                                  suspended,

thudding softly against the walls of an enourmous glass case.

Pointed away from my face
where they are harmless.

Honesty, Bludgeoned.

Eternally painful
Eternally sweet
Masked my eyes
Eternal your sleep

Yours dance with life
my reason retreats.
So sharp is the knife,
that lays beside me.

A pierce of your skin;
a plunge, a rip,
quiet, and deep.
Ears
that still ring
from the sound of your screams.

Eternally painful
Eternally sweet
Unmasked my eyes
Eternal your sleep.