It felt vulnerable to have people know my weaknesses, but there is so much strength from going back to the start and re-determining who you are.
RENEE STONEI lost touch with the world around me – gone unnoticed by that which surrounds me, but I must find the presence of that which grounds me if I am to once again grasp onto everything I lost touch with.
More Renee Stone Quotes
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I write poems of the past; they reveal the reasons we didn’t last.
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I can assure you that I don’t wake up every day with a smile upon my face, and the distance from happiness in the morning isn’t set at a constant rate.
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We’re so distant, words can’t save us.
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Tell me I’m sun-kissed, but you burn my skin. And you already told me, I was paper thin.
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Reading has always been my sweetest escape, but I write to convey that which I want to escape or what scares me to say, even if it’s something positive.
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I hide myself in the galaxies of my creations – unsure of who I am beyond that.
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You are chaos in my heart – clogging up my arteries. I can’t move on or bring in more love than what was at the start
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I spill words among pages so that I can’t say my thoughts are stuck in cages. Can’t say I didn’t let it out when I can say for sure I wrote it down.
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Flowers crown her with thorns, keeping her mind entrapped in a garden of lies – guarding her mind.
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You wonder why you didn’t do it sooner – why you didn’t clear your mind when the clouds loomed.
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Let go of the honey-sweet lies for the bittersweet truths.
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My words decay. I grow as they fray, unbecoming in the passage of time.
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We walk in circles, never knowing when to end the cycle our hearts put us in.
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Imagine the unknown of what the beings around you cover up and struggle with everyday.
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Why is it that you have more practice describing weaknesses than strengths? It’s not your fault they never went to the lengths to teach you how to value your strengths.
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Somewhere the silence resonates, the clutter clears, and you’re set to start again.
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I wish you could feel it when it’s dark at night, and I think of you when I pass the streetlights. But I know you feel the care without me being there.
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I overwhelmingly write from sadness – in songs, in prose, in verse.
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When the silence fades and now sounds begin to bloom, I will grow to feel calm again. Healthily this time.
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I can’t take it all in or else I’ll grow cold when the heat already escapes my fingers and toes.
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I wonder why I’m so empathetic, why people perceive me to be so kind. I don’t want my heart to burn when there’s no one burning mine.
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When you and the world are out of breath, take the steps to ensure your own needs are met. By the moment you know someone can’t on their own, you’ll hopefully be ready to help.
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They tell me summer is coming, and soon we’ll be dancing on the shore. Waiting for the moonlight to light me up amongst the starlight.
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I’m writing on a blank page full of chances and hope.
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I want to tell them how tired I am because I don’t think it shows. But maybe it’s the same for them – all strangers to the weight each of us carries. So alone, we carry these loads.
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And so, my ‘What if’s’ became ‘What’s next?’
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