~ through it all ~

Through It All | original Poem by Ted Houser Through It All… 22 was a setback that shook me to my core Now only trusting a few Proud of what was creatively accomplished At peace with myself & in love with who I’m becoming … Never needed justifications Reasonings or clarifications We all moved the way we moved Made choices that had real ramifications … Walking past a dark cloud Giving myself grace From emotions & decisions Made in a different place … Not asking for forgiveness, acceptance/permissions We are what we are Each carried a journey, with our own intermissions … The roads traveled are above & beyond Onwards & upwards, we are what we are … Through it all That’s all that this is/ever will be Life will be life & I will be me Not perfect or proud Living in the boundaries Of mental peace that’s allowed … ~ bear ‘25

Through It All…

22 was a setback that shook me to my core
Now only trusting a few
Proud of what was creatively accomplished
At peace with myself
& in love with who I’m becoming …

Never needed justifications
Reasonings or clarifications
We all moved the way we moved
Made choices that had real ramifications …

Walking past a dark cloud
Giving myself grace
From emotions & decisions
Made in a different place …

Not asking for forgiveness, acceptance/permissions
We are what we are
Each carried a journey, with our own intermissions …

The roads traveled are above & beyond
Onwards & upwards, we are what we are …

Through it all
That’s all that this is/ever will be
Life will be life & I will be me
Not perfect or proud
Living in the boundaries
Of mental peace that’s allowed …

~ bear ‘25

~ clarity ~

clarity handwritten poem

~ clarity ~ Boundaries made in times of self-awareness…Cleaning one’s house of false trepidations…Paving the way for renewed expectations…My road is not yours, nor paved in fairness… Judgmental claims born from assumptions…Created a rift that time won’t change…Never naming the values behind these presumptions,Nor caring to bridge the space that remained… Claiming extinction as an […]

~ Five O ~

~ Five O ~ Fifty cycles around a gas giantTeachings of life can be so defiantThe turns & twistsFor those moments of bliss The mind tends to wanderThe heart always yonder’sThe gut rings forever trueLife’s tribulations that lead me to U  Fifty cycles around a gas giantThrough life’s confinementsBelieving that things changeIs a blind fool’s […]

~ wake-up ~

~ wake up ~ at what point in humanity, did we relinquish lifeto be replaced with false ideologies & strifeto the point where, holding one’s groundis seen by others, as laying a sword down… the loneliness that follows, a line drawn in the sandwill shatter the threshold, that’s difficult to comprehendleft with ones own devices, […]

~ Calm, Peaceful Guidance ~

~ calm, peaceful guidance ~ Drudging through realms, re-opened by othersSights & the sounds, have drowned out my museGetting back to that presence, with no mental violenceAnd changing the course, through a calm, peaceful guidance Daily routines are vigilant & violentSmothering the mind, from it’s own quite contentBecoming once again, tranquil yet resilientAnd recovering from […]