Turn It’s in the moment where I feel most helpless that I need to turn This lesson is simple but sometimes so hard to learn If I’m helpless then I have no answers, I have no solutions for my problems I need to turn to someone who knows how to solve them I used to …
Author Archives: Joel Prickett
Teeter Totter of Self
Teeter totter of Self Loving self By loving others Helping self By helping others Knowing self By knowing others Forgiving self By forgiving others Teaching self By teaching others Reaching self By reaching others Giving of self For the sake of others Forsaking self For the sake of your self You didn’t foresee that did …
Marriage (Anguish Language)
There was a time when I swore I’d never marry again. Or even open my heart to another. I was in a lot of pain and dealing with much anger. I was in a dark place. I wrote this at that time. (Usually don’t share my dark stuff but It was an outlet for me …
“Nurse!” (Pt. 2)
“Nurse!” (Pt.2) I just got report in the ER and shift change was underway. We were in the midst of the first COvid crisis and stress was already very very high. I’d taken over the care of a very young expecting soon to be (for the first time) mother. She miscarried once. And much had …
A Rap Prayer
A Rap Prayer The enamored glamour given to the world in panorama makes me choke and stammer like being struck in the chest with a sledgehammer – Seek and ye shall find The blessed and the meek are displayed as weak with their outlook branded as bleak and their societal label as freak when it’s …
Offense (pt. 1)
Offense (pt. 1) The more fragile we are the more easily we’re hurt The notion of control of offensiveness is merely absurd When you build a fence When you build offense You only fence yourself inside where you’re harmed by simple words The more offended we become the more off ended we’re stirred A world …
RACE
RACE My people are in a race to oblivion! My kind are in a place of self destruction! My kin are oblivious to a solution! My brothers and sisters use race to divide, The problem is not race- The problem is space- The one between the ears of my kin, And eyes that can’t see …
Glazed Existence
Sometimes it’s too painful to delve beneath the surface Some mirrors lay dormant or remain hidden forever Some lives are coated with a superficial purpose Some people actually consider this existence clever Sometimes it’s much easier to look out than within Some mirrors are shattered just lying in pieces Some existences are glazed with lives …
The Mask
The Mask The epidemic came, people had to wear them They learned many many things from it You could hide things- a smile, a scowl, even a pout Some even learned what it was actually like to become it I learned at a very early age about the mask But this mask has no cloth, …
Robbed Childhood
Robbed Childhood I understand robbery And lives flexed from a good reality A rubbery existence A hollow place leaving difficulty to stand Children deserve the very best Of what a parent can give A reality ground in loving communion A life that healthy parents together planned Children don’t deserve dysfunction And being the canvas for …
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