Upon Learning Forgiveness

Upon Learning Forgiveness

Forgiveness forges fires within my heart

Expanding my soul into wondrous flight

Grasping for Heaven with severe intention

Dreaming the hostage is now free

Forgiveness thunderously crashes through my soul

Waves embracing the ragged shores of

A life complicated in simplicity

Opportunity how you have knocked at my heart

Drenching my spirit with the wetness of love

Bleeding into passages unknown

Yet known - scary, dark and gloomy

Forgiveness extending, bursting with light

Brightly seeping beyond chasms of thought

Growing hope and nurturing faith

I awaken in a gasp for air beneath waters of despair

Forgiveness pulls me back from the ledge

Opening vision, seeing fantasies of misery

I’m forgiving the world of all its strife

I’m forgiving me of nebulous dreams

Breathing and living the truth of life

Allowing healing, expanding beyond

The littleness that had me bound

By Maryanne Mesple

June 2016

Inspired by ACIM

On Being a Hermit

~On Being a Hermit~

I know the heart of the Hermit

Is a heart war torn

Beaten and downtrodden

A resource tattered and scattered

Used up then left aside

Outside life progresses on

Crawling away, hiding within

Recluse like in darkened internal dens

Withdrawing from the poisons

Of a venomous world

In solitude healing begins

The battle scars reflect

Days once lived in belief and faith

Offering up compassion and love

To those whom choose to only fear

Alone time stands still

Turn off the chatter of a wounded heart

Live a life apart from all the winds

Forgiving forgetting the Terrors of life

Rebuild a spirit that is strengthened

From within

Love is the visceral elixir of faith

The Hermit becomes wise

Beyond thoughts, beyond body

Knowing that to be alone within and without

Heals the tortured soul so that

Wisdom can be born

Come out

(Painting and photo by Maryanne Mesplé 2016)

Poem by Maryanne Mesplé May 2016

A Wish

(Photo by Maryanne Mesplé 2016)

My grandson made a wish today

Then blew it upon a breeze

Where a hundred fairies carried his dream

Above and beyond the trees

He looked up into my eyes and grinned

"Nana it's gone!"

I hugged him with a loving gaze that said

"Have faith, it won't be long"

Poem by Maryanne Mesple

May 4th, 2016

Never

Never

Never do we ask to be

In a place where demons

Are free to rule

With aggression and

Pointed vile words

Never

Never do we beg to feel

The piercing points of

Words meant to kill

One’s spirit

Never

Never are we poised and

And ready to

Discover we are

Loathed and Hated

By those we love

Never

Never are we prepared

To defend our heart’s

Passions and faults

For our heart is who

We are inside

Never

Never are we meant

To shed a million tears

Regretting life

Regretting love

Regretting hope

Regretting faith

Regretting our own 

Existence

Never

My Burdened Heart

Beneath cold skies of night

My heart beats

Grasping to survive

Trying to not drown

In tears

Quietly I slip into velvet

Blackness

Cold air

Caresses my thoughts

I’m suffocating

Loss of hope

Forgotten dreams

Faith disappears

In the morrow

I’m crushed

Again

My burdened heart

Barely beats

My burdened heart

Beats toward

Nothingness

Nothing becomes safer

Than something

Absent moments

Collide with fears

I’ve no strength

Cold skies of night

Dressed in velvet darkness

Have stolen

My hope

My grace

My faith

(All stories/poems blogged/written/published  by Maryanne Mesplé/Mesple are my property and protected under copyright laws. No part may be used or reproduced in anyway without my permission ~ Maryanne Mesplé)