This poem goes out to my buddy and dear friend, Victor …thinking of you dude 🙂
the struggle against adversity brings forth changes dragging one up or down push upward reaching for higher levels of functioning which did not previously exist building resilience absorbing damage but not failing bouncing back
© 2017 michael d emmerich
battered and bruised shattered and drawn fading away into the gray dragged down those deepest depths the fear is real sleep escapes only but a heartbeat away from what I don’t know headlong crashing into life fading away from the blue hearts are breaking I can feel it, can you let me carry your sorrows let me shed tears for you and take them when they come
© 2017 michael d Emmerich
gazing into the mirror shadows flit on the edges pulled into the centre my shadow self stares back battered bruised pain etched across my shadow scarred face hands reaching out we embrace become one acceptance peace
© 2017 michael d emmerich
some kind of pain some kind of joy some kind of beauty some kind of despair some kind of life …….. what’s it all about?
© 2017 michael d Emmerich
only when we acknowledge that we are all mad will it all make sense and mysteries, contradictions will no longer be …….. life stands still clarity achieved
© 2017 michael d emmerich
like shifting desert sands rules keep changing greedy corporates keeping the leash short work hard, be honest play by the rules it all comes to naught they fuck you over hung out to dry despite playing fair they don’t care you still fucked
© 2017 michael d emmerich
oh that exquisite beautiful tragedy giving birth to amazing creativity ….. nobody feels any pain nobody feels any joy ……. to feel joy you must first experience pain ……. or is it the other way round?
© 2017 michael d emmerich
travelling into my space that road oft travelled neither visitor or tenant be just passing by stopping to stare donning spectacles of perspective discovering what lies beneath as I a passer-by be dream or dead space? haunted by conversations of those who reside on yonder neighbours they not be in transit, not overnighting reading what lies beneath obligated to document that others might believe
© 2017 michael d emmerich
A day late, but Happy Birthday The Boss, 68 yesterday. Thanks for all the great music, memories and reflections that your music continues to deliver. In refection, on those memories, I am posting a link to an article I penned earlier this year.
Some of his greatest work, in my opinion, are his three acoustic albums, they are stark, dark and raw. They claw at the very fabric of society, lifting the covers and showing the dark underbelly, that exists right in front of us, but we are at times, to blind to see.
So Happy Birthday to a great musician, artist and writer … may you continue to bless us with heartfelt and soul searching lyrics. Strength to you and love and peace to all …
neither a shout or a scream not a whimper or a whisper …..... but an eruption of emotion from within …....... once released it plots its own path and passion towards darkness or light ...
© 2017 michael d emmerich
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