Tag Archives: Hurt

Thought For the Day: A Profound Unmitigated Loneliness Is the Only Truth of Life

Posted on October 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.” – R.K. Narayan, novelist (10 Oct 1906-2001)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Apart, Arrest, Avoid, Battle, Detach, False, Hurt, Law of Life, Loneliness, Moment, Operation, Profound, R.K. Narayan, Recognize, Thought For the Day, Together, Truth of Life, Unmitigated, Womb | Leave a comment

Shadowboxing

Posted on October 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Shadowboxingby Michael DoyleShadowboxing with my egoHiding from whispers of an echoWhen cleansing of sin is neededAnd common sense is not heededThere are dangers in complexityRaw feelings rough in their simplicityI just need to hold on to the sunriseVisions that bleed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beautiful Soul, Bleed, Cleansing of Sin, Common Sense, Complexity, Danger, Demons Dwell, Echo, Ego, Grow, Hid, Hurt, ID, Inferno, Innocence of Childhood, Jaded Past, Killing Me, Let Go, Living Hell, Lose Control, Love, Making, Mistakes, Must, Pain Inside, Past Trauma, Poetry and Poems, Pool of Blood, Raw Feelings, Shadow Boxing, Simplicity, Sunrise, Swept, Taking, Trust, Uncertainty, Whisper, World, Wound, Wounded Parts | Leave a comment

Dreams and Voices

Posted on July 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dreams and Voicesby Michael DoyleThe real truth revealed in the nightRevels in its parts brought to lightEven those that sear and hurtBringing the mind in focus, fully alertPretending to give an ounce of careAbout all the divisiveness laid bareIt is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibi, Choices, Cost, Deep Inside, Details, Device, Different, Divisiveness, Doubt, Dreams and Voices, Essence, Facades, Faith, Focus, Freedom, Haunt, Hid, Hidden Secrets, Hope, Hunter and Prey, Hurt, Laugh, Legends in Their Own Minds, Light, Lost, Ounce of Care, Play, Poetry and Poems, Real Truth, Reverent, Saviors, Shade, Thoughtless and Crass, Underestimate, Voices, Wrong Decisions | Leave a comment

In the Process of Confession

Posted on May 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Process of Confessionby Michael DoyleKeeping reality and the Bible in contextIs a paradigm that constantly correctsTo keep truest meaning in its placeThroughout our lives, it’s a truth to embraceGod answers prayers in His timeTo do otherwise would be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answers, Best, Bible, Bleed, Bottom, Broken Glass, Certain, Cipher, Confession, Context, Corrects, Damage Done, Darkness, Due, Embrace, Ending In Prayer, Experience, Failing, Faith, Father, Final Test, Foot of the Cross, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Friend, Full Circle, Germinates, God, God's Promises, Good Book, Grace, Help Others, Helping Hand, Hope, Hurt, Immediate, It Is What It Is, Jesus, Keeping the Promise, Lessons, Life Plays Out, Light, Live This, Lives, Loss, Messy Process, One Another, Paradigm, Pardon, Place, Pleasant Surprise, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Press, Process, Read, Reality, Redemption, Remediate, Right, Rise Again, Seeds, Son, Sorely Needed, Thought and Felling, Time, Truest Meaning, Truly Need, Truth, Victory, We Confess, Wise Up | Leave a comment

Moonkyst and the Twisted Fae

Posted on April 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Moonkyst and the Twisted Faeby Michael DoyleIn the early morning mistWe dream our dreams moonkystit’s a fantasy, some might sayBut it gets us through another daySome dance the dance of twisted faeWhile the music plays; they swayAs if it might … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Best, Better This Way, Childhood Days, Dance, Day, Dream, Early Morning, Eyes, Fantasy, Games To Play, Head, Hurt, Last Fantasy, Memories, Mist, Moments, Moonkyst, Music, Pillow, Play Out Life, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Rest, Reverie, Say, Silver Screen, Smile, Soul, Sway, True, Twisted Fae, View, Whimsical, Worth the While, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Waking From Lies

Posted on January 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Waking From Liesby Michael DoyleThe life before usSeen as if waking from liesMaybe it never wasWe awake with opened eyesDanger stands on either sideWhile we choose our confessionWe can fake that it stops at wounded prideOr press forward despite our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Books, Cast Off, Children, Choose, Confession, Content, Danger, Disappear, Either Side, End of the Story, Every Day, Every Heart, Feel, Feeling Alive, Forget, Hope, Human Beings, Hurt, Kiss, Learn, Lies, Life Before Us, Never Was, Opened Eyes, Poetry and Poems, Predilection, Press Forward, Pretend, Quest, Questioning, Real, Real Meaning, Reverie, Seek Happiness, Seeking Glory, Sermons, Shadows, Sorrow, Stay Near, Tears, Tomorrow, Travel, Vast Distances, Wake, Waking From Lies, Walk, Wounded Pride | Leave a comment

Always Time For A Story

Posted on December 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Always Time For A Storyby Michael DoyleQuietly sitting on the pewThere in one sense, familyWearing our brother’s coatAnd in this, draped in povertyKeeping warm on Christmas nightAll for the sake of spirits brightKept a flicker in swaddling clothesAs only as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Child, Child's Heart, Christmas Day, Christmas Night, Coat, Comfort, Compare, Distances, Doll, Dream, Dull Surprise, Empathy, Excite, Eyes, Family, Glory, Gold, Heart, Hole, Home, Hurt, Joyful, Kings, Know, Lonely Heart, Love, Love's Story, Loving Heart, Miss, Paupers, Pew, Place, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Saddened Eyes, Second Hand Embarrassment, Secret, Seem, Sentiment, Shadow, Share, Sit, Soul, Spirits Bright, Story, Surprise, Swaddling Clothes, Sympathy, Time, Too Young, Unafraid, Voice, Warm, Window, Wishes | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: All You Need Is Love. But A Little Chocolate Now and Then Doesn’t Hurt

Posted on December 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M. Schultz

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Charles M. Schulz, Chocolate, Hurt, Love, Need, Now and Then, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Inconvenience Into Resemblance

Posted on October 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Inconvenience Into Resemblanceby Michael DoyleCasting aside the inconvenienceLooking instead for the resemblanceIs he your bother or a brother?What happened to loving one another?Red letter moments meant to teach usEach word said in try to reach usPassages that speak to heartachesMeant … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Belong, Bother, Brother, Done, Dwell, Embrace, Embraces, Encourage, Factual, Faith, Gentle Correction, God, God's Loving Arms, Goodness, Grace, Healing Hand, Healthy, Heartaches, His Love, Hurt, Importance, Incovenience, Jesus, Leaning In, Loving One Another, Me, Messy Spaces, Missing, Mistakes, Passages, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Purity, Pursuit, Reach, Red Letter, Reflection, Resemblance, Sacred, Seasons, Sick, Sobering, Speak, Spiritual Perfection, Stepping Into, Teach, Teaches, Thee, Toward, True, Wrong | Leave a comment

Come To the End

Posted on September 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Come To the Endby Michael DoyleYou want me to take you seriouslyAs you glare at me furiouslyWith your arms around the guyI caught you with before my replyYou flame me by way of “fuck you” balloonAs I advert my eyes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arms, Balloon, Best, Cards, Caught Up, Come To An End, Comedy, Dream, End, Evidence, Fable, Fantasy, Feigned Hurt, Flame, Focus, Furious, Glare, Guy, Heart, Heights, Holding On, Hurt, James Dean, Legendary, Lesson Learned, Majesty, Mean, Mediocrity, Might-Have-Beens, Mind, Poetry and Poems, Relevance, Relevancy, Remember, Reply, Serious, Table, Tragedy, True Friends, True Words, Truth, Verbally Punch, Whens | Leave a comment