Gedichten

Inspired by Bart Meijer:

Give me a hand
No, not to help

Give me your hand
To keep and hold for a sec

Take my hand
To just keep and feel

Take my hand
To feel the warmth

Take my hand
And feel the love

Take my hand
And just feel it

Feel my love

I do not live
I just exist

People who don't live
Might as well just be dead

But I keep on existing
While I have no life

Somewhere there is the possibility of hope
But does that really matter when you just exist?

It might as well be over
It might as well end here

People who are dead inside
Are not afraid to die

Still I cling to that shimmer of hope
While I just keep on existing

It all seems so pointless and futile
But I keep clinging to hope

Like I have done for years
And all it brought me was more pain, loss and despair

I exist
To be used, abused and taken advantage of

Used by the people I care for
And abused by the people I love

And most of all
To be abandoned or betrayed by the people I trust

Living is for people who have some future
It is not for me, I just exist

And cling to the useless hope
That one day things might actually get a little better

Ik kwam een mooie tegen op Facebook vandaag:

Work like you don't need the money,
Dance like nobody's watching,
Sing like nobody's listening,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And live every day as if it were the last.

I walk here all alone in the moonlit park

A memory is walking besides me
A memory of happier and better days
A memory of walking here together
A memory best forgotten

Images float through my mind
Images of the last time I walked here
Images of love and joy
Images best left alone

Images and memories
Leading to frustration
And, if not left alone,
To rage and hate

I banish the images
And kill of the memories
I dare them to haunt me
And laugh in their face

They aren't worth my attention
Memories of people
Who don't understand friendship
Let alone they understand love

After clearing my mind
I find an inner peace
I laugh out loud
When I realize finally

Their loss is bigger then mine
For they will never again
Find a man willing to do so much
For so little

Who loves them
Just for who they are
And wants to do anything
Just to see them smile

For men like me are rare
Men who will go that extra mile
For a close friend
And even further for a loved one

Men who don't cheat or lie
Men who always help you
So it is their loss
Not mine

I walk here all alone in the moonlit park
And I am happy about it

Ik kwam deze tegen op het internet, ik vond hem erg mooi.

She Let Go

She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go.
She let go of fear. She let go of the judgments.
She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head.
She let go of the committee of indecision within her.
She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons.
Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.
She didn’t ask anyone for advice.
She didn’t read a book on how to let go…
She didn’t search the scriptures.
She just let go.
She let go of all of the memories that held her back.
She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward.
She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.
She didn’t promise to let go.
She didn’t journal about it.
She didn’t write the projected date in her day-timer.
She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper.
She didn’t check the weather report or read her daily horoscope.
She just let go.
She didn’t analyse whether she should let go.
She didn’t call her friends to discuss the matter.
She didn’t do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment.
She didn’t call the prayer line.
She didn’t utter one word. She just let go.
No one was around when it happened.
There was no applause or congratulations.
No one thanked her or praised her.
No one noticed a thing.
Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.
There was no effort. There was no struggle.
It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad.
It was what it was, and it is just that.
In the space of letting go, she let it all be.
A small smile came over her face.
A light breeze blew through her.
And the sun and the moon shone forevermore.