Take the time every now and again to step back and to refresh parts of your soul that no one sees. Stay in your studies and send up prayers and meditation to quench the thirst of questions that no man can answer. Everyone laughs at faith until desperation strolls into our lives wearing a smirk and holding a sickle in his right hand. He is here to reap and leave the malnourished one empty. Everyone believes in something when the catastrophe ensues and no one is laughing any longer. Don’t be like those laughing at creation and yet calling on a god when things go wrong. Keep yourself full of hope and expectation no person can touch. Exercise both your body and your mind and it’ll work wonders for you in the end. Read books and study to nourish that beautiful mind of yours so no one makes a prey of you through philosophy and deceit. Sing, dance, praise and laugh like the crazy person you are. How dare you cloak yourself in positive vibes and radiate a smile brighter than the sun? Only if you keep yourself filled with light can you shine. Take these sips of nourishment to sustain you so that in the daily grind that is your life, while you’re busy surviving, you do not forget to live.
Tag: nourish
Hope Like Water
I must admit
I don’t know much about you
The first ocean in which I’ve ever swam
You were there in my mother’s womb
And every other home in which I’ve ever lived
I drink you
And you consume me
I cook with you
From pieces of your soul
I feed my children
And we bathe in your arms
Watching as you carry us
Water
Invisible
Yet nurturing
I know not what you are
Not exactly
I think you’re spiritual
Because you left your DNA in my skin
Your truth dripping as it clung onto my bones
Like breath of life escaping my lips
A misty cloud
A forehead kiss
Or a mother’s smile
And the world is yours to conquer
When she winks her eye
And you know you got this
You’re there to fulfill all our needs
A spiritual fluid
That man has not fully understood
Like heaven right here on Earth
Miracles
In the desert
If I could bottle hope
I imagine it’ll look something like you
If I could taste on my lips expectation
I imagine paradise would taste
Something like you
If truth could be wrapped up in one word
If hope could manifest itself
So we know what it looks like
I’d sum it up using one word
The only word with the power to both nourish
and destroy
To hurricane wrath
And to quench thirst
If I could touch the substance
of this expectation
I imagine it is hope
Like
Water.