What is love?

Oct 10, 2019Oct 10, 2019 DeraLeave a comment

I can only imagine
How love truly is.

Will it come to me?
Will it come to stay?

When it comes
Will I recognize it?
Will I let it go away?

What would love be
Would it be a lover?
Or a family filled with love?

Will I be happy?
Or end up sad once more?

Will I be able to love right?
Or will I end up hurting?

When love ends
Will I be able to stand at all?
Or will I search for more?

If nobody loves me
Would I love me?
Or pain the only one who does?

When I’m lying on my deathbed
Will I have people surround my bed?
Or will I die with a grieving heart?

All these questions
Make me hesitant to try.

I don’t know what love is
So I can only imagine.

But even my imagination scares me.

FALL

Oct 8, 2019Oct 8, 2019 DeraLeave a comment

I find fall to be wonderful
As I walk through fields
With wonder at the workings
Of the seasons and nature.

Although quite a beauty
Those dried out leaves
Painting the soil with colours
That gives a loving feel.

The way the sun pierces
Its light into these naked trees
In the quiet of the day
With the winds carrying leaves.

Fall gives this comforting touch
To the world of the afterlife
With it radiating beauty
From dead things.

It also gives me a hope
That, perhaps, in this slough
I may be sunk deep than I can escape
But there’s a beauty to the ugly I face.

Apologize for not posting on Sunday. I had some issues with my internet. Hope you’re all well.

Star

Oct 3, 2019 DeraLeave a comment

Darkness fled the moment
You came into my life
And my life changed
the moment I fell in love with you,
For your heart is a beautiful star
lighting up my dark world
and you’re the summer sun
bringing warmth to my winter world.

Rain – A Haiku

Oct 1, 2019Oct 1, 2019 DeraLeave a comment

The rain drops slowly
silently the roots rejoice
spring brings sweet relief.

Love’s Fool

Sep 30, 2019Sep 30, 2019 DeraLeave a comment

My family advised me
My friends warned me
But like a fool,
I told them off.

“We’re in love” I said.
Like a fool,
I threw my senses aside
and ran away with you.

“Yes” my reply to your proposal.
Like a fool,
I got married to you in secrecy
thinking our love tale was one of a kind.

“Secrets and lies” all you told me.
Like a fool,
I had jumped blindly into your deception
and was left wounded.

“Terror” your presence represents.
Like a fool,
I failed to see the monster hidden
under the cloak of Prince Charming.

“Pain and suffering” my life has become.
Like a fool,
I followed you on
not realizing I had traded life for death.

Hi,

Due to my academic studies, I will not be able to post daily for a while now. So my new posting days are Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursday, in effect from tomorrow.

I’m not really a talking type but want to say thank you to all who have read, comment, liked and followed me through this first month. ( I have 25 followers now! Isn’t that amazing?) It means a lot!

Here’s to more and hope October is amazing for y’all.

Love,
Dera 💓

X

Sep 29, 2019Sep 29, 2019 DeraLeave a comment

Blood filled sunset and misty mountains
Beyond the beautiful meadow
My heart hangs by a clang
Heavy – breaths of despair
Unknown lurks with closed hands
Giving up no secrets
Assuring not peace.
Life itself is a struggle
Tugging until your bones weaken
Pulling until your faith fades into the dark.

You

Sep 28, 2019Sep 28, 2019 DeraLeave a comment

Be yourself
Stop holding on
To expectations and wants
You’ll only be with yourself
Don’t spend your life being someone else
You’ll never feel satisfied and wonder why.

2019