Live for Now

LIVE FOR NOW

Here I am caught between the living and the dead

Walking in a realm I have not visited yet

Oh my, how my imagination can soar

Billowing white clouds covering up the impending storm

My creative heart suffers from writer's block

Blocking out memories it hurts to humor

Awaking a new world where hurting does not exist

Who says you can't have heaven on earth

Who says my life is not my own

I was given free will to do whatever I see fit

This is me this is how I grow

Take a few steps forward

To secure what lies ahead

Take a few steps backwards

To make sure I did not miss a step

You can only speculate the future

Study history so you do not repeat the past

Live for now

Because now is all that is left

R. Hosking

© 2015

Divine Intervention

DIVINE INTERVENTION

  

When the hurting starts to become the comfort

Your mind becomes numb to the pain

If I could forget and replace a memory

With a picture from yesterday

But my heart only feels the emptiness

It has already been trained

I have to relearn that love is faith

And maybe now God might intervene

Not calling out in prayer

For I humbly concede

I know nothing of my own affairs

I could not possibly understand

What I truly need

R. Hosking

© 2015

The Endless Journey

THE ENDLESS JOURNEY

What's your limit

Is there a limit

Can you jump

How high do you want me to go

Can you reach the stars

Depends how far they are

How do you cure the blues

Depends how deep the scar

Is there a road you dare not travel

How could I know until I made the journey

Is there a dream you dare not dream

Only the one I can't reach

How do you know which one you can't speak

I can't until I dream them all

What do you learn from failed attempts

That the rise consists of many falls

So when do you know to call it quits

That brings me back to where it began

I never give up because success has no end

R.Hosking

© 2015

Smoking Mirrors

SMOKING MIRRORS

It must be exhausting always being right

How are you able to carry the weight of the world the way you do

I would show a bit more respect

But disagree with your arrogant attitude

Do you feel peace or are you so consumed with hate

Buried so deep you can't see who you are in the mirror

Blinded by a common face

It is so easy to point fingers

Even easier to judge

Pitching your stone out your glass window

Until it crashes your neighbor's glass walls

It is so easy to see someone else's problems

Looking from the outside in

Turn the mirror to yourself

While it is still smoking

Hide behind the dark cloud

You may even get some sympathy

Since my methods are deemed unorthodox

Guess it never occurred to you

You may be the one that is wrong

Not sure why we can't love one another

Forgive and forget

But we always prefer living under the weight of hatred

Including myself

But today I decided to get off the ride

My head was spinning and making me sick

So instead I tried being nice

Asked my enemy to make a wish

It is not my fault they wished ill will on mankind

Wait, my mistake, it was only wished upon me

Self entitled greedy little bastards

Always lurking in the trees

Sorry you do not dictate my moods

No matter how childish you are allowed to be

Remember that smoking mirror

The one you hide behind

Well, simply because I chose to close my eyes

Does not mean I am blind

Does it make a bigger person to stand your ground

While flexing your muscles

I thought the meek would inherit the earth

Not the tyrants and devils

R. Hosking

© 2015