Optimism

As I let the quiet consume my mind
My thoughts fade to grey
Creation hums around me
I wish I'd just speak up,
but this silence I don't mind.

Maybe I've been chasing my past with a pen--
instead of acceptance.

I think of the imagined happiness
and how consoled I feel with hope,
that tomorrow being a day
better than this,
will heal my sorrow of the moment
Take all the burdens, pains, loss, and grief away
because we all deserve to be purged from the gloom
and shadows
of the garden that we wish we never entered.


With every single word I write,
though I know they won't do me justice,
I know there can't be dark without light

If you heard me- you'd understand
That when the angst is too much,
and the love is too loud,
My sanity is turned down.

They say in time it gets better
but who are "they"?

With stammered breaths and shaking hands
a slight smile curved upon my face
like that crescent we all look upon in the darkest time of night
Because I knew
The way we all fill our collective needs together
and accept that, though terrible things happen
There is so much good in this world.

Things will fade, like night to morning
A crash of the wave
Filling the ocean
That is full of unknown treasures and opportunities

Just like the space we have left open unwillingly in our minds.