Author: Simone

Loves to tell and hear untold stories about people, places and experiences!

And Then 2023…

Well, guess what? It’s 2023. Now what? I suppose it’s time to make a new year’s resolution (but did we do justice to the ones for 2022?) Oh well, let us see what this new year will bring. Would it be a crime to say I have no specific plan, or idea of what I want to do for 2023? There are some vague butterflies called ideas floating around in my head, but I have no clue.

LET’S DO LESSONS LEARNED INSTEAD

Maybe there are lessons from 2022 that we can work on in 2023

But I have learned from 2022 the importance of really taking care of myself, better yet always showing up for myself. I have learned that no matter how much support you have from the people around you, at the end of the day, if you don’t show up for yourself no one else will. No doctor, no friend, parent, no one – except God of course – can show up for you like you can show up for yourself. So I will work harder at showing up more for myself, my dreams and the purpose God has for me.

I have also learned the importance of being intentional, unwavering and willing to face rejection because you no longer want to please. It is a lesson I am still in the process of coming to terms with, it is a hard lesson to learn it seems. However, trying to please means there won’t be anything of you left to please with anyway.

Also, 2022 has taught me that in vital areas of health and well-being I lack discipline and I pray God gives me the chance to learn the lesson so well that I become a model student. So, I will become a disciplined student in the art of being disciplined.

Finally, I have learned that sometimes – maybe most times – I need to be still. I need to stop trying so hard, being so on edge about everything, and trying to control the outcome of everything. I realised, that I oftentimes have zero control over most things and must wait upon the Lord, be patient and allow things to run their natural course. This is hard, but to succeed in these uncertain times faith is so necessary. So, for 2023 I will be working on being still more often in order to get the best results from all my endeavours.

Though I said finally, this is last but not least. Never regret, never be stopped by fear, never give up, love and never hate, laugh off your anger, annoyance and displeasure and live. Live and be thankful to God for each day you can live. Let’s work on these in 2023 and see what happens. All the best my friends, we can do it!

The Fruitless Life

The Fruitless Life

Down a dark desolate lane
devoid of colour
forever grey
to a railway where 
no one comes
except the tramps
who pick at decaying crumbs.
The fruitless life...

The streams dried up
drought has taken its toll
and what once was new
is now old
and you sit in the cold
youth half decayed.
The fruitless life...

First fruit no more
that blossoms sure,
for all has been swept away
all perish.
The fruitless life...

The Sinner

The Sinner

I am the bride
In whiteI am filled with pride
I cannot be touched
because God loves me so much
I have no sins to hide.

So you use religion as a crutch
But you I know by your lust,
depraved mind which makes you blind
to the incremental nature of your soul's decline
with each monstrous tide.

How dear you!
With your limited view
tell me about sin.
There is no fault within
and if so it is not for you to spin
my sins back into the light.

You both are wrong 
and rather bold,
to think you can either of you
speak truth
when still you are tainted from within
by that corrupted man that loves sin.

Position Yourself

Position Yourself

Position Yourself
and find the place
where you can occupy the space
intended for you.
Position yourself
to accept your calling
knowing that in the morning
you will know your calling.
Position yourself
ease into your place
and be still in that time
that you will find sublime,
sublimely yours.
Feel, know and hear the whispers
of truth 
denied in the lies of death.
Position yourself,
stand firm,
hold your position,
for the battle is not yours...

Betrayal

Betrayal

et tu Brutus?
Was a wound ever so deep?
"Ista quidem vis est!"
But the damage was done.
Faster than the bullet from a gun
love, trust and camaraderie condemned
never to rise again.
On the tree of misguided self-righteousness
a single groan signaled the end
no more words uttered.

Let us mourn what was
that is no more.
What could have been
now stunted within the sin
of betrayal.
Now I must shed this skin
of innocence spun in deceit.
Now to get the salt and pepper
not to kill you -
but to find something new
something that is true...

Vanity!

Vanity!

Vanity!
All is vanity!
The world is a cesspool 
of vanity.
What does it profit a man
to gain paper that vanishes?
Woe
 all is a wasteland of vanity.
Walk the path set before you
look neither left nor right
least you stumble
lacking insight.
the babes are lambs to the slaughter,
future sons and daughter
lost to vanity.
All that is before you
vanishes on a breath
breathing death of temporance
when faced with timely delays.
Yea
know this,
the golden trappings of bliss
shimmers like fool's gold.

Peace

Peace

Like an avenging angel
from the east,
bright blue light streaks
across the evening sky.
It comes unanounced
unforseen and discreet
to spread a blanket of comforting signs.
No place is too far, deep, high or wide
that it cannot reach,
it must tear down diseased despair,
Peace:
my peace I give to you.
So no fear can reach
from anxieties you are released,
just believe
that you have received
this gift so precious
so vital to your increase.