The Truth of War

The Truth of War

                                  War is hard for every fighter,

                                       both sides lose a brother

Dawn breaks the sky is lighter,

far away there is a crying mother

At the field the chaos begins,

when there's war no one wins.

By Laura Denton-Ellis  September 29th, 2011.

If You

If you should tell me

what I should hear,

but don’t.

I will listen.

If you should show me

what I should see,

but don’t.

I will understand.

If you should give me

what you think I need,

but I don’t.

I will cry.

If you should love me

for what I am,

and could be.

I will love too.

Sleep

I cannot sleep,

because the silence around me

is too quiet.

I cannot sleep,

because I have to listen,

to the silence very carefully.

To hear it all.

TRUE LOVE

True love is a passion, like an obsession,

for someone you can't live without.

If you don't start with that,

what are you going to end up with?

Something that is not.

Fall head over heels.

Fall as hard as you can, as hard as you will.

I say find someone you can love like crazy and...

who will love you the same way back.

And how do you find them?

Forget your head and listen to your heart.

Your heart will know.

Your head might help but

it’s the heart that really has the last word.

Run the risk, if you get hurt,

it’s only temporary.

You will come back.

To try again.

And again.

I know it’s nuts

and goes against any kind of logic,

but you will.

Because, the truth is,

that there is no sense living your life without it.

To make the journey of life

and not fall deeply in love, at least once, - well,

you haven't really lived much of a life at all.

You have to try,

because you will succeed,

eventually.

Because if you haven't tried.

You haven't lived.

BETTER THAN IT WAS

I can’t sleep, I can’t relax.

I have no pain, I have no discomfort.

Yet I still can’t sleep.

Nothing sounds right this night.

Because I can’t sleep,

I think, I wonder, and I pray.

Time slowly crawls forward, very slowly.

I still can’t relax, I still can’t sleep.

All is not right in this world.

Nothing feels right around me,

or sounds right to my ears.

A name repeatedly rises

to the surface of my thoughts.

A name outside of my family

A woman that I have never met,

but I have talked to her,

many times.

My spirit then speaks quietly.

Pray for her, think on her and pray.

The world is not right at this moment.

So I pray, and I think.

And I pray again.

Then as suddenly as it began, it ends.

It is 3am and my spirit speaks quietly

And now the world seems right again.

The sounds are right.

What I feel around me is right again.

I can relax again, I am ready to rest.

Finally.

My world still may not be completely right

But it is better than it was.

Her world still may not be completely right

But it is better than it was.

A Place You Have Never Been Before

When nothing seems to fit anymore,

and I don’t mean the clothing you wear each day,

or the life that you lead right now.

And nothing seems to make much sense either.

Where it feels like up may be down

and right is turning left.

When you are constantly feeling out of place.

As if you’ve lost the connection to the real world,

but haven’t yet managed a connection to this one.

Everything you see, touch, hear, smell or taste

just seems to be slightly off.

Unfamiliarly familiar, commonly uncommon.

Your surroundings seem new.

Yet you know that you’ve been here before,

and have experienced it a thousand times.

The family you have and the friends you know,

seem not to be the friends and family

that you remember anymore.

When the familiar seems lost,

and the unfamiliar is found.

And you don’t know what’s what.

Perhaps it’s just because

you are no longer

the you that you were.

Maybe what was known

has become unknown,

on its way to becoming known once again.

Perhaps it is God

leading you in His own way.

Into another place.

A place you’ve never been before,

but now a place

you should be.