Feels

The days glare down in painful ache
Like endless ripples in an outsize lake
For pain is real and peace is fake
And none are safe for safety’s sake

Sometimes happiness rains in showers
Growing faith in delicate flowers
A deluge great or hours and hours
To praise upon the highest towers

Maybe fear is an ultimate bane
To stab the body in fervent pain
To weep and moan from every vein
For reasons none can hope to explain

Often times we sadly bemoan
This horrid existence we call our own
In tears and sobs down to the bone
So often because we feel so alone

Perhaps anxiety or jealousy’s wrath
Takes you down the primrose path
In boiling anger, drowned in this bath
For fury such no other hath

So many days so many nights
Our passions are our many plights
There are no wrong, and so few rights
To set us on the better sights

But there are days, not now but soon
When peace set on, to glow as runes
Like wind that blows o’er hill and dune
That casts such pains away, a-strewn

It all aches now, I have no doubt
For sorrows take the quickest route
And while we suffer, lips to pout
We have the strength to cast them out

Remember this: I’ve suffered too
Though feels like mine aren’t feel like you
I have no doubt you suffer true
So here is all that you must do:

Be the one you always were
Bleed your soul with shout and stir

Play the games you used to play
Before your childlike soul goes away

Play in the rain, laugh in the sun
Live the day before it’s begun

Fill your head with love for all
Allow the bad like leaves to fall

None live the life the way you’ve been
Even the demons deep within
They gnash and howl, again and again
So now you rise above the din

Live and love, you marvelous one
This soul you house shines like sun
This life of yours is just begun
It should not hurt, it should not stun

And remember this: your feelings true
They are not all that bad to you
As love and hope and joy will do
They give you strength, they see you through

Be strong and live, be great and be
The one who lives full symmetry
The feels you feel, your face you see
Your heart will guide, your soul the key

You’ll rise above. You’ll live. You’ll see.