Highs and Lows

I took a ride to the coast,

Just me and nobody else

To unscramble these thoughts in my mind. 

What I remember the most,

Is how lonely I felt

How that pain could leave me feeling so blind. 

I watched the waves on the shore 

Like so many other times before 

And I knew I was where I should be. 

Not to let it consume me,

It was time to forgive,

Even if it meant to agree to disagree.

And the highs get so high,

And the lows get so low

And the things that make us most

Uncomfortable are the things that

Teach us what we all need to know.

Yeah, I saw that fine line,

And I relinquished the chance

To leave it there when I knew I had to go.

I took the long way home,

Turned the music up loud 

And the playlist was worthy to note:

"Don't Miss Your Life" and 

"If I Needed You",

I heard the words of these songs echo the most.

Still I brought them back home,

All these jumbled up thoughts,

As they tumbled right out of my hands. 

I put them all in a jar

That I handed over to you,

And you could see how far back it all began. 

And the highs get so high,

And the lows get so low

And the things that make us most

Uncomfortable are the things that

Teach us what we all need to know.

Yeah I saw that fine line,

And I relinquished the chance

To leave it there when I knew I had to go.

And you lifted me high 

To a place I didn't think I could go 

Not wanting to miss this life,

Knowing I would still always need you 

And learning that together we would still grow

And hold on to each other like we did long ago. 

08.21.17
©Kerri L. Stanley

Wayward Stance

They say the truth will set you free

Yeah like redemption felt walking down a church aisle.

Unless we walk in your shoes, what will we see,

But a trail of your sins strewn for miles.

And there just around the bend,

Your hidden life that has no end.

You step,

You turn

To your own private dance 

Fooled you think you have us

Into believing not whether

We'd be fooled again.

You can't even give in,

And you don't know how to walk away 

From this lie of yesterday.

Vows that you made are silenced around,

As you repeat a ritual knotted and tied.

On your knees you should fall to the ground.

But your morale only lessens

And there will be a next time 

To connect to all the times when 

You turned it into something beyond just friends.

You smile,

You yearn

To preserve your secret stance

Boldly thinking that you must  

Justify it all not to be a romance

Unable to even recall when 

The masquerade all began 

Now we don't know what else we can say 

To this grievance that's in the way. 

Yeah you are going to throw it all away,

As the hands of time put away another day. 

08.06.17
©Kerri L. Stanley