The leaves
Never-ending
Why try
Why try
Obligation
Guilt
I DON’T know!!
One step…..then another
Peace, supposedly
Liars
Vision dims in the light
Who, what, when where and why
?
Justin Ludwig
Tag: poetry
Passion and Hate
There is a thin line between love and hate….
Love consumes, so does hate
hate festers
Love does also
They both birth joy, fear, hope, safety and protection…..rage.
…..what is the line?
If the mind distorted by hate sees an action as best for the other, then where is the line?
People like me tend to hurt the ones they love, so it isn’t a matter of caring….
What’s the line?
I bet each answer would be different.
I used to believe self sacrifice was the deciding factor…but I’d give my life to take the life of one I hated.
There is a word……a hybrid word that I feel is the only real answer…..passion.
The real question is, what is your passion and why? If we seek that question, perhaps then we will discover the line that is too thin to truly understand alone.
Be blessed and love well my friends
Rise
I’ll never forget the first time I fell and couldn’t rise…
Never before had I forced myself to stand
It hurt the same
Different
how
Drive
an urgency to stop
End!!!!
But my heart
no
It wasn’t mine
then….
Who?
Love Never Fails
Sometimes I feel like I may disappear….
Lost in the shuffle of the same papers since the fall
Accumulation…..
gain and accomplishment
again and again
Lost like a whisper in the wind
Hypothetical memories torn and tattered
Like the faded memories on life support in a wallet
Love…..
It carries forward
A force that cannot be contained
by the tangible or even the rational
…..it the darkness we cry
In the darkness it screams
Love never fails
Written by: Justin Ludwig
Silent Reminders
The darkness shouts at me
do you remember?
….you remember
Tick tick tick
Another day without you
Another day done
It’s maddening
Time clicks and everyone adjusts
……but i don’t
Covered by grace
This stays raw
it’s renewed at every click
… I don’t know how to stop it
Perhaps I don’t want to
they are mine
I am theirs
tick tick tick
I remember in the silence
Written by: Justin Ludwig
Shame, Heartbreak and Broken
Where’d she go!?
choking on my heart
Frantic to remove it
Where’s that knife?
Wait…
I believe it’s still in my back
NO RELIEF!!!
….. guilt trips
Woes me!?…..
NO!!
I only blame me, same as you
Rest easy princess
Still punishing myself
Take solace in my devastation
Your help isn’t needed
……do you hate me so?
did all the love dissolve away?
leaving only a spiteful residue
Though it seems you forgot
Loyalty
pain
ME…..
If change was with ease
I wouldn’t have lost my All
I can’t help who I am
I tried for you….
I failed.
…… you gotta set me free
Written by: Justin Ludwig sometime between 1999-2012
The Conflict
The conflict of what could have been
Many landmines missed
many precious moments too
So much anger
So much love
…..what could have been
the picture perfect idea tattered and faded
Distant but always with me
It’s not her I miss, it’s the idea
It’s not the idea I miss, It’s them
An outsider in every circle
I….
….what could have been
this isn’t how it’s supposed to be
this is how it had to be
It breaks my heart
yet I am blessed
Written by: Justin Ludwig
