Vale of tears

The Assembler Of Souls Absorbs All Within His Reach
His Seemingly Perpetual Glance Of Doom
Would Even Make The Smallest Of Serenities Breach
As He Rides The Wind Being The Ghost Of Gloom

Running Darkness All Around
A Knife In Her Hand

Falling, Rising, Screaming The Name Of Her Beloved

So Weak, And So Weary
Something Blackening Her Thoughts
A Cloud, A Force, A Weight

Finding Her True Love Lying In Red
Is This Reality Or Just A Vision In Her Head

To Be The Knife As Well As The Wound
Is All That Concerns Her

Overwhelmed By A Burden, Like Hordes Of Fear
The Obscurity Of The Vale Of Tears
Grasping For Safety, Wich Lies All So Near
Incresent Malice Of The Vale Of Tears

Wandering Oblivious In The Foggy Twilight
Shades Of An Obelisk Shines So Bright
Incredulous thoughts, Bewildering Her Mind
Is There Really A God To Find

Hailing Through The Darkest Of Forests
The Obese And Extraneous At Her Tail
This Haunting, Lingering To The Extreme
She Is About To Quail

Then A Formless Mass Of Black, Went Skyward
Stars Began To Fade Behind A Vale Of Dark Blue Velvet
She Stopped, She Listened, Nothing
Silence, An Eternity Passed

The Silhouettes Of Something Unseen, A Presence

Vale of tears is a phrase based upon the Christian religion that refers to Earthly sorrows that are to be left behind when one enters heaven. "Vale" means a valley or a dale. The phrase comes from the prayer Salve Regina: "To you do we send up our sighs, mourninag and weeping in this vale of tears." The expression hearkens to Psalm 23's reference to the valley of the shadow of death: the phrase implies that the wickedness of the world makes it dark and reprieve comes only from divine salvation.

GREENEYES

He had told her Love would never die

But then his Soul fled to the Sky

Leaving Her abed with poignant cry

And sobbing dreams of Frantic Why

In Dream he came to salve her mind

Heard only Hurt and Long Road wind

Through Forest bark and Justice blind

To Hopestar end and Lovelight find

But through Time and lack of Hope

The first Word crept which she could Cope

Turned into Trick like Indian Rope

Bring Hopebrides invite to elope

Stand by my grave for comfort sake

But now you know I am awake

Not cold in the Ground as if asleep

But part of God; so do not weep.

Look for me in the Sun's morning ray

See me in the quiet of day

And in the insects busy drone

And in your head when we're alone.

Look for me in laughter bright

Hear me in the quiet of night

I am the gentle breeze on face

I am your strength to win the race.

Hear me in the quiet of heart

I did not die; we're not apart

You're one with me and me with you

And in love's quiet you'll know it's true.

Look for me in Autumn's glint on leaves

The chirps of bird song in the trees

Sunlight on the ripened grain

Fresh made bread from gentle rain.

Hear me in the running brook

The trout that splashes as you look

The laughs of children as they play

Be in your mind at break of day.

See me in the peace of running wave

See me in the silence of the hidden cave

The quiet earth that sustains all growth

Lamb's plaintive cry at mother's sloth.

With the gathering of birds in the morning light

I am the uplifting wind of the circled flight

So do not stand at my grave and cry

When you know in your heart that I did not die.

Come in the silence of the night

Come in the memory of dreams and fears

Come in tears with eyes so bright

Come in the love of cherished years.

And I will greet you in the old familiar ways

Talk to you of those well remembered days

Tell you of the new things I have found

Listen to you talk to me in all life's richest sound

She had heard him call so loud and clear

Embraced the night in starlight sheer

Felt moonbeam kiss dispel the fear

Wore mingled Love thoughts oh so dear

Embrace the Star lights wondrous gems

Rings of moon dust Beauty lends

Fairy garlands love does send

And broken heart in kisses mend





VALE OF TEARS


The drop escapes, one single, perfect tear

Reflects in the world, the pain of years

And lover's weak in this, the Vale of Tears


Pain so sharp, intense then numb

Takes the breath and renders dumb

Unfaithful lover, to the brink has come


Exposure of the inner self

Giving now o'erwhelmed in stealth

Betrayed, as lover seeks another's wealth


The years of build unfold in tear

Reality now, that the many fear

Swamps heart that once was, oh so Crystal clear


Betrayal by lover in the end

Darts of pain, not Cupid send

But greed that others, to the lovers ear, do lend


Betrayed in a cycle, so very sad

The carousel now turned to bad

The lovers spin from beauty that they had


To depart the lover's gain

Replace with traitor's pain

In sonorous gasp, the deepest hurt refrain

Nothing there now left to say

A single tear the ferryman's pay

In stoic turn to gently walk away.


The single drop, the perfect tear

Heart reflects this pain of years

Weakness of lovers, in this the Vale of Tears

"Feelings of broken"

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Ending a relationship can be a brutal experience to go through, whether your the one ending the relationship, or if your the one getting dumped. A broken heart is one of the most horrific human emotions that you can feel. Often it is easier to write your emotional state of mind down on paper, whether its a poem, a rant, or even incoherent rambling. It can really help you focus your thoughts in a time where your better judgment can really be clouded.
Whether you are writing a poem to win back the heart of a lost love, or just need closure to a broken heart so you can move on with your own life, poetry is very therapeutic for the soul.

Wings to fly

How can i always lend a hand
but ignore the cries within myself
it brings me joy to bring you a smile
but my emptiness still sits up on the shelf

Inside my heart will always bleed
but i will never let it be shown on my face
only the tears that falls down my cheek
will give you glimpse, a shadow, a trace

I suffocate when i try to breath
the chains you gave won't let my body go
i have dreams, and needs and wants
my body is numb i think maybe you should know

i struggle with my demons each day
you feed them while you slowly watch me die
please let me be and set me free
i want to smile as i look up at the sky

i want the moon to brighten the night
i want the clouds to pass me on by
I want the stars to guide me to heaven
and i want wings to life me and fly

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"friendship"

How can we find true friendship in this often phony, temporary world? Friendship involves recognition or familiarity with another's personality. Friends often share likes and dislikes, interests, pursuits, and passion.

How can we recognize potential friendship? Signs include a mutual desire for companionship and perhaps a common bond of some kind. Beyond that, genuine friendship involves a shared sense of caring and concern, a desire to see one another grow and develop, and a hope for each other to succeed in all aspects of life. True friendship involves action: doing something for someone else while expecting nothing in return; sharing thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment or negative criticism.

True friendship involves relationship. Many people say, "She/He's a good friend of mine," yet they never take time to spend time with that "good friend." Friendship takes time: time to get to know each other, time to build shared memories, time to invest in each others growth.

Trust

Trust is essential to true friendship. We all need someone with whom we can share our lives, thoughts, feelings, and frustrations. We need to be able to share our deepest secrets with someone, without worrying that those secrets will end up on the Internet the next day! Failing to be trustworthy with those intimate secrets can destroy a friendship in a hurry. Faithfulness and loyalty are key to true friendship. Without them, we often feel betrayed, left out, and lonely. In true friendship, there is no backbiting, no negative thoughts, no turning away. True friendship requires certain accountability factors. Real friends encourage one another and forgive one another where there has been an offense. Genuine friendship supports during times of struggle. Friends are dependable. In true friendship, unconditional love develops. We love our friends no matter what and we always want the best for our friends.

True Friendship - Examples of Real Friendship

True friendship stories are found throughout the Bible. In Genesis 18:17-33, we read about God Abraham. Abraham responds by telling God his thoughts and feelings about the situation. God and Abraham are able to do this because they trust and respect each other.

Real and true friendship involves freedom of choice, accountability, truth, and forgiveness. Peter and Jesus give us this example: Peter, afraid for his life after Jesus is led away from the Garden of Gethsemane, denies knowing Jesus (John 18). As He is led away by His accusers, Jesus casts a look toward Peter that says, "I knew you would deny Me, and I forgive you" (John 21).

Real friendship looks at the heart, not just the "packaging." Genuine friendship loves for love's sake, not just for what it can get in return. True friendship is both challenging and exciting. It risks, it overlooks faults, and it loves unconditionally, but it also involves being truthful, even though it may hurt. Genuine friendship, also called "agape" love, comes from the Lord. The Lord Jesus calls us His friends and He laid down His life for us (John 15).

Relationships in real life involve different levels of friendships, and that's okay. But humans are designed by God for lasting relationships. Often our isolationist society offers only vague, empty relationships. God wants us to have friends here on earth. Most of all, He wants us to be friends with Him!

God's Word tells us that a friend sticks closer than a brother, and that in order for one to be a friend, one must show themselves friendly (Proverbs 18:24). The question is: what type of friend do you desire to be?

Proverbs 18:19 in the New Living Translation says: "It's harder to make amends with an offended friend than to capture a fortified city. Arguments separate friends like a gate locked with iron bars." When we've offended a true friend - whether by breaking a trust or by speaking the truth with love - we risk losing that friendship. We must be careful not to break the trust. But when not speaking the truth will cause greater hurt in our friend's life, we must be willing to sacrifice our needs for those of our friend. That is true friendship.

If we sometimes offend a friend without meaning to, God's Word offers a solution. It's called forgiveness. There is no greater example than the love of God for us. It so great that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, in order that our friendship with God might be restored. He did that in spite of the fact that we have offended Him deeply. We have disobeyed His commands, turned our backs on Him, and followed our own path. So the question remains: What type of friend do you want to be? True Christian friendship forgives.

Do you need a friend? God wants to be your true friend. Are you longing for companionship? God is always with you (Hebrews 13:5). Who do you know who needs a true friend today? God wants you to befriend others. He calls us to be His hands and feet in a world starving for true friendship.

Life is too short..

Who are we?

Is human life just a dream, from which we never really awake, as some great thinkers claim? Are we submerged by our feelings, by our loves and hates, by our ideas of good, bad, beautiful, awful? Are we incapable of knowing beyond those ideas and feelings?

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep…Is the reality we know a reality imposed to us by nature? Is the reality and the meaning of life a creation of men, such as music, or love or colors.

Are we - and all living beings - just survival machines, blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes, Are we incapable of knowing beyond the frames imposed to us by nature?
Is there any significance for life in a Universe of billions of stars that ignore us? Is there any significance for life in an Universe whose dimensions and nature overcome our understanding?
When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity that lies before and after it, when I consider the little space I fill and I see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I rest frightened, and astonished, for there is no reason why I should be here rather than there. Why now rather than then? Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time have been ascribed to me?

"Life is too short"

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person yur best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people." Life is too short not to make the best and the most of everything that comes your way everyday. Forgive, forget.Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be malicious.
The brevity of life is one of the more common themes of human existential thought. There is authentic poetry in many ancient reflections on this brevity, and the inevitability of death and nothingness.

Love and cruelty on our lives

Love gives meaning to our lives – as do friendship, or art or faith in God. These are factors of true happiness, of inner peace, of feelings of harmony, allowing meaning to our existence.

But there is the other side. There is the cruelty of life, the pain, the evil, not to talk of death. They are the hidden tigers, ambushed and ready to attack the imprudent, to use an image present in the Buddhist Scriptures.

Is between these pendulums - the positive, the one that gives happiness and meaning, and the negative - that our lives are lived. And when we meditate about all that, we arrive at a diverse and disagreeing set of thoughts about the meaning and purpose of life.
A life without love and friendship is a meaningless life. The meaning of life is, largely, given by love and friendship. Life is sown with those miracles that only people who love can expect.

AN HAPPY LIFE IS A MEANINGFUL LIFE

The meaning of life resides in joy and the feelings of harmony connected to happiness; without happiness, life loses meaning. Happiness is at the heart of our lives and our demand for a meaning. One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it consciously or not: What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. From the moment of birth, every human being wants happiness and does not want to suffer. From the very core of our being we simply desire contentment. Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence becomes a mad lamentable experiment.

Life seems to fly by...

Everybody is always talking about it, but to me it seems that nobody sees the actual significance of that statement: "Life seems to fly by....."

In the years of our youth it does not seem to affect us too much. Life seems interesting and our daily excursions into the New and the Unknown keep us occupied and our days are filled with adventures. But what about later? Every one of us has to grow up and face the burden of so-called Reality. This often means something different to each one of us, but everybody faces the basic struggles. Financial nightmares, emotional stress, inferior friendships and so on.What usually happens is that we get lost in those struggles while making them the most important part of our lives. We are so preoccupied in solving the puzzles of our everyday living that it turns into an ongoing battle repeating itself over and over. It seems to have neither a beginning nor an end. I believe that pretty much sums up the reason for all those years passing us by like flimsy cardboard boxes filled with unrealized dreams and unsolved problems.

If you try to be honest with yourself and examine the past years objectively, you might come to the same conclusion. You might have had some financial success or even have fallen in love with the person you have always been waiting for. Maybe you are one of the lucky ones and emotional stress and financial burdens do not play a big role in your life. But most of the time one problem replaces another. For instance not having enough money usually creates as many worries as having more than you need. Being "burdened" by excess financial resources means to finding proper investment strategies. In a growing but unstable local economy and world market that can be quite challenging and often takes up a substantial amount of time. And even when you have created a portfolio that suits your needs, there is the matter of maintaining it properly and even that does not give you any insurance that your money is still going to be there the next day.Surely at this point I am not solving any mysteries or telling you anything you do not already know. That leaves us with the original question. Why is it, then, that no matter how fulfilled or unfulfilled, exciting or boring, stressful or relaxing our lives are, there always remains that magical place in the far corner of our existence, filled with anxiety and fear? Some of us might not recognize it, others might be able to ignore it. But for many people it becomes the driving force of their lives. In my opinion these feelings result from a realization that we are not able to control everything that is going on in our lives. We have to admit to ourselves that we are not strong enough, that we do not posses enough power and vision to understand our existence completely and therefore much that will happen to us is left to chance. And correct you are. How can human beings that made material and temporary objects the "Holy Grail" of their search through life, measuring self-worth in dollars and cents, fighting each other for rewards that will seep through their hands like the sands of time, even begin to hope that they will be able to manipulate anything outside their own capacity of understanding. This limited environment that we have created for ourselves prohibits us from functioning to the fullest extend of our capabilities. We have not been designed for such a limited application, like a child locked up in a dark room all his life with only one task taught to him. No matter how promising his capabilities might have been, he would grow old much faster than intended and his whole world would revolve around the only task it knows. Wasting our potential on daily chores, worries and fears is like using a super computer exclusively as a word processor. If we ever want to be completely happy and fulfilled, if we ever want to enjoy every single second of the day, we have to break out of these chains of incarceration. Our much limited intelligence causes the destruction of biological environment worldwide and is the main reason for all the violence, oppression and self destruction we are faced with on a daily basis. It ultimately is the cause for our unhappiness because deep inside we know that this is not the world we are supposed to live in. Our ideal world is a world of Love and Understanding. A world of unlimited spiritual growth. Scientific research shows that at this point of our spiritual and physical evolution we are only using 10% of our brain capacity consciously. Are we constructed falsely? No! Why is it then that we are not using so much of our true potential? Clearly it is because 10% is all we need to support the mediocre task we are presenting our brain with. We are supposed to be beautiful, spiritual beings with the rest of the earth at our command. But we find ourselves barely above the intelligence level of animals. Fighting daily battles, nation against nation and man against man. Even our own families are subjected to this rage. We have created more violence in our world than the animal kingdom ever will.At least animals use and display violence for a reason. Humans are the only creatures committing senseless acts on a continuous basis, destroying their own habitat as they go along.How intelligent is that? I realize that this is a gloomy picture I am painting. Awakening to the fact that our earth is just a tiny speck somewhere in the universe, controlled and abused by human beings. Being at the mercy of natural forces that we have not the slightest control over and finding ourselves locked in a dimension that at best offers little more than temporary happiness and the gift of living, may it only be for a brief moment in the grand illusion of history. Is this a perspective we are stuck with? Is this the real and undivided truth of our existence, all we can hope for? No way, my friend. You have been given choices. It is up to you to make the right ones.Hopefully you are not so narrow-minded as to believe that this earth and the universe surrounding it was created by chance. Billions of years ago a "Bang" and from then on everything kind of developed by itself. That does not sound very reasonable, does it? Everything has a purpose, every grain of sand, every rock has its own special place of existence. Even if evolution has happened the way it is described in scientific publications of the world, there must be a reason for how it came to pass. I am not a person that believes easily. I, like so many others, challenge every bit of information that is placed in front of me. But even I must admit that behind all that has happened, behind all creation there must be a guiding forcecontrolling and manipulating these powers. I am convinced and believe with all my heart that this guiding force is God.