Submissions by KendalM
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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Published
17th Dec 2024 12:22pm
17th Dec 2024 12:22pm
Night Cap
I want to tip toe across oak tongue and groove flooring, my flame in hand, dripping white wax like lava against the wrought iron candelabra. Sneaking like a child along the corridor to a room with fifteen foot ceilings, and there amongst the shelves, run my fingers across dusty spines, acting like I know what I'm looking for.
In a library filled with longing, I want to read words that dare to tell the truth.
The truth found in experience and heartbreak, where mourning is turned into joy, true love endures, and there is a Heaven after all.
In a library filled with longing, I want to read words that dare to tell the truth.
The truth found in experience and heartbreak, where mourning is turned into joy, true love endures, and there is a Heaven after all.
#inspirational
#mystery
#passion
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Published
16th Dec 2024 4:41pm
16th Dec 2024 4:41pm
Dust
They are fooling you all.
Calling an elephant a cat and because they hold probability and predictability to a certain extent, you believe they hold some sort of knowing.
The mind and the heart work in conjunction with one another, but neither without the Spirit, and for the most part should both be resilient and soft, loving and stern, caring and relentless.
The mind has no emotion without the heart strings attached, and yet the heart without the brain continues to beat. The heart has its own electrical supply, think about that for a moment...
Yet the brain, without...
Calling an elephant a cat and because they hold probability and predictability to a certain extent, you believe they hold some sort of knowing.
The mind and the heart work in conjunction with one another, but neither without the Spirit, and for the most part should both be resilient and soft, loving and stern, caring and relentless.
The mind has no emotion without the heart strings attached, and yet the heart without the brain continues to beat. The heart has its own electrical supply, think about that for a moment...
Yet the brain, without...
#forgiveness
#hope
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Published
16th Dec 2024 3:27pm
16th Dec 2024 3:27pm
Diary Entry...Huh
Im tired, my moms on Hospice...well she should be but she still has yet to say the word cancer stage four and sign the papers, so she's refusing the end of life care she needs, which makes it a confusing situation on the family.
Then two days ago my grandma on my dad's side had a heart attack, and after 2 units of blood and bipap machine to restore her oxygen levels, she went back downhill again, hemoglobin a 7 and now they are thinking she has lymphoma or leukemia.
I know everything happens for a reason, I'm just tired, and this is hard.
Its taking all I got to keep...
Then two days ago my grandma on my dad's side had a heart attack, and after 2 units of blood and bipap machine to restore her oxygen levels, she went back downhill again, hemoglobin a 7 and now they are thinking she has lymphoma or leukemia.
I know everything happens for a reason, I'm just tired, and this is hard.
Its taking all I got to keep...
#emotions
#strength
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Published
7th Dec 2024 5:11pm
7th Dec 2024 5:11pm
Bare Handed
Remnants will stand firm, laugh while you can.
#courage
#love
#strength
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Published
7th Dec 2024 12:05pm
7th Dec 2024 12:05pm
No Boys Allowed
She drapes white sheets over kitchen chairs, and just inside, lines the hard wood floor with fluffy pillows and downy blankets.
As she grabs her flashlight, your hand, and the journal with the heart shaped lock.
Sweetheart, let's just go be little girls again, everything you need to unload is safe with me, and when you leave this memory of our friendship, only take the little girl lost back with you upon your return to the world.
As she grabs her flashlight, your hand, and the journal with the heart shaped lock.
Sweetheart, let's just go be little girls again, everything you need to unload is safe with me, and when you leave this memory of our friendship, only take the little girl lost back with you upon your return to the world.
#emotions
#hope
#strength #TimeHeals
#strength #TimeHeals
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Published
6th Dec 2024 1:36pm
6th Dec 2024 1:36pm
Hankering
I had a dream when I was younger that I was swinging in between two rockets in our hayfield. I was attached to both, one rope on one rocket, the other rope on the second, and I in between swinging on a child's swing. I still don't understand that dream. Lol
#clouds
#countryside
#sky
70 reads
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Published
6th Dec 2024 11:21am
6th Dec 2024 11:21am
Decisions Need To Be Made
There's a tumor on her spleen, nodules in her lungs, and an even bigger mass than the one they removed two years ago along with her ovaries now pressing on her lower organs and prohibiting proper functions of her bladder and bowel. She called me yesterday asking me to intercede for her and talk to her Dr.
You gotta understand, my mom is such a control freak, nobody takes charge over her life, especially decisions over her health.
Yet here I was, the one who was always incompetent and stupid, now making executive decisions over her care.
It's all so...
You gotta understand, my mom is such a control freak, nobody takes charge over her life, especially decisions over her health.
Yet here I was, the one who was always incompetent and stupid, now making executive decisions over her care.
It's all so...
#emotions
#forgiveness
#hope
#love
#strength
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Published
4th Dec 2024 6:10pm
4th Dec 2024 6:10pm
Hurt
The weather was cold and brisk, streams of sun bursting through grey clouds, a contrast my soul could relate to.
A place I always go to when I need to feel close to you. I know Lord you are not there in the physical, but visiting this spot gives me comfort in my spirit when I feel like dying, when the broken is just too much. How do we even know what you look like really, as your statue stands there, arms stretched out, the steps to you cascading. Its harder to go up than down, yet as I was sitting there, praying to your concrete memorial, because it's something tangible when I feel so...
A place I always go to when I need to feel close to you. I know Lord you are not there in the physical, but visiting this spot gives me comfort in my spirit when I feel like dying, when the broken is just too much. How do we even know what you look like really, as your statue stands there, arms stretched out, the steps to you cascading. Its harder to go up than down, yet as I was sitting there, praying to your concrete memorial, because it's something tangible when I feel so...
#courage
#emotions
#hope #strength
#hope #strength
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Published
21st Oct 2024 5:51pm
21st Oct 2024 5:51pm
Processing
As I have previously written, my mother growing up was hard to live with, and that's putting it nicely. I never felt good enough, but now, she's back...the mother that I had up until I was about five, before she turned into a hard women.
As she lay there curled up on the sofa, her ice water with the straw clanking against the metal thermos sides as she stirred the half melted chunks around it's perimeter, all got quiet as she out of no where says, Sis...I need to tell you a few things.
As the lump in my throat seemed as if it was starting to block my airway, I mumbled ok, but wasn't...
As she lay there curled up on the sofa, her ice water with the straw clanking against the metal thermos sides as she stirred the half melted chunks around it's perimeter, all got quiet as she out of no where says, Sis...I need to tell you a few things.
As the lump in my throat seemed as if it was starting to block my airway, I mumbled ok, but wasn't...
#emotions
#forgiveness
#strength #TimeHeals
#strength #TimeHeals
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Published
18th Oct 2024 4:46pm
18th Oct 2024 4:46pm
Yonder Castle
I learnt yesterday that my family is from dat der Scotland, I also learnt there's a castle still standing thur, and our name still occupies the land.
Say, Issa just a wondern if I could get an invite to dat der castle, I just wanna play pretend for a bit. 😂
Let me sing from a yonder winder and frolic in the courtinyard.
Let me sneak to the dungeon and release the folk that just wanted em some cornbread.
Let me hear da hooves a clipper cloppin up dat der cobble stone driveways.
Youins just invite me to stay one night now, come on! ...
Say, Issa just a wondern if I could get an invite to dat der castle, I just wanna play pretend for a bit. 😂
Let me sing from a yonder winder and frolic in the courtinyard.
Let me sneak to the dungeon and release the folk that just wanted em some cornbread.
Let me hear da hooves a clipper cloppin up dat der cobble stone driveways.
Youins just invite me to stay one night now, come on! ...
#happiness
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Published
18th Oct 2024 11:36am
18th Oct 2024 11:36am
Not The Time
It's easy for some to sit and judge, especially when they are sitting comfortably in life, with no need to have accountability for themselves in the midst of their hypocritical finger pointing.
My mom is dying, and everything is broken, so the last thing I'm gonna tolerate is some asshole telling me I'm failing at life's tests.
I found your deflate button, and now your mouth is hissing. So who actually failed their test again?
It's irresponsible to poke a bear while she is actively becoming a mouse and not expect a lashing of sorts.
Shut your mouth, I'm tired of your...
My mom is dying, and everything is broken, so the last thing I'm gonna tolerate is some asshole telling me I'm failing at life's tests.
I found your deflate button, and now your mouth is hissing. So who actually failed their test again?
It's irresponsible to poke a bear while she is actively becoming a mouse and not expect a lashing of sorts.
Shut your mouth, I'm tired of your...
#anger
#frustration
#grief #heartbroken
#grief #heartbroken
87 reads
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Published
15th Oct 2024 7:02pm
15th Oct 2024 7:02pm
April May Come
Some keep the whole storm because they needed the rain.
I found the rain that makes weathering the storm worth it.
.
I found the rain that makes weathering the storm worth it.
.
#hope
#kindness
#love #strength
#love #strength
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