Thriving In The Jungle

Thriving In The Jungle

By:  Adrielle R. Bollin

Stampeding horses, thundering hooves

Stubborn buffalo, who refuse to move

But in comes the rider to guide and to lead

Directing the traffic until all of them cede

Emotions like these while I step through the doors

Preceding the moment, like lions they roar

Like a native who navigates the jungle with ease

You whisper your secrets of survival to me

With each step I take I'm a little less scared

Reminding myself again that you're always there

The road that I travel though covered with snares

Is worth all the risk to show that you care

For out in that wild and unforgiving world

Are people who need to see love that's unfurled

They need to feel peace like a swan on the lake

They need to see beauty that can give and not take

So while in the labyrinth of woolly wild beasts

I'll heed your advice and eat the rare feasts

For without my guide I am ruled by the chase

Backed into a corner and left in distaste

Looking Higher

Looking Higher
By: Adrielle R. Bollin

I'm looking again to beautiful heights

Seeing the possibilities, hope soars like a kite

For maybe up there in the azure blue sky

I'll see what you see with those great searching eyes

I've searched below in the mud and the dirt

Swam all the rivers of sorrow and hurt

I've seen all these people and heard who's to blame

Sometimes seems like evil has no reigns

Yet still often enough come these beautiful days

When I see why I'm here, why I'm kept in this place

I want to move on but it's not about me

Because sometimes it's patience that sets people free

The Forgotten Room

The Forgotten Room

By:  Adrielle R. Bollin

I didn't know about this room

Where so much pain and sorrow grew

It was right in here all along

Softly whispering it's dire song

How could I have missed the signs

Allowed myself to be so blind

Now all I can do is stare

As my panic fills the air

These walls are tumbling down

Like a hurricane the horrid sound

Irrational this surge of heat

As emotions are wild as fleeing feet

I step away to catch my breath

Look again from a new depth

When all at once it's clear to me

The prism light, distracting beam

The room I saw there in the dark

Filled with shadows which seemed to mark
Is nothing more than idle things
Which bathed in light remove imaginings

The voices I heard which menaced me
Are now as silent as the midnight sleep
For who can hide when soaked in light
Where can darkness go but into the night

For Japan With Love

Lost And Found

Lost And Found

By: Adrielle R. Bollin

Lost in a sea of rolling emotions

Tossed from knowing into the unknown

Seeing so clearly and then not at all

Tears that I've cried are hidden then shown

Lost in a world that I no longer love

Wary of evils which still remain plain

Charting new territory on familiar plains

Feeling excitement while fearing the pain

Lost with loneliness who endlessly taunts

And fear who takes refuge in dark murky air

Howling my name as I weep in despair

Doubt keeps me restless while securing his lair

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Lost and found has been my life

Journeying both sides of peace and strife

Lost and found is all I've known

Tripped up in despair and in peace I've flown

Getting to know both darkness and light

Learning to rest and when to fight

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Found in the deepest recesses of shame

The faintest of light which seems far away

A window of hope to salvage the day

I cry out again and like a child I pray

Found as I open my weary blurred eyes

A hand outstretched and a wing in which to hide

A heart to uphold me to stand by my side

A love who has known me and with me has cried

Found is a haven of safety and rest

A peace like no other to hold to my chest

And slowly but surely I rise like a crest

Revealing the beauty where inside I am blessed