Hope Stories
Training Mantra of the Gingerbread Girl
What I say to myself whilst I train for a charity walk dressed as a Ginga girl.This poem only available on Stories Space. If you are reading it elsewhere, it has been stolen.Run, run,And I'll let you pass;You can catch me,I'm the gingerbread lass.But I don't care if you're fast;I'm slow,'Cos I'm going the paceThat my feet can go.You...
praying hands
a simle prayer and a dreamPraying HandsI had a dream with my lord CHRIST He touched my head, not once but twice. I felt my body jump up in bed I saw the nail holes in his hands that bled. I felt the power of his healing hands He showed it to me so I could understand. With faith in...
I was raised to believe That everything happens for a reason. It doesn’t matter if that is good or badThere will always be a purpose. So what happened between us? In those precious few moments When we held each other tightand passionately kissing over and...
Pill
If you can't beat them, laugh at them.The world is full, Of good and bad, Joy and happiness, And misery so sad, When all is hale, We're so glad, When woe prevails, Grief is ironclad. Old and worn, Seems to creak, Smiles can’t hide, How hoary and weak, Agony pounding, Inducing shrieks, Time pa...
We talk to people online opening up about our lives hopefully they share theirs too But honestly, what do we know? Sharing stories, pictures, photos Of our interests, hopes dreams and possibly our family But honestly, what do we know? We might grow close...
Maybe one day...all those words of love will come true.Maybe somedayI'll be with herinner turmoil gone. a future carved outmaybe hugs will happenkisses and other sweetness.I have to hope.I have to allow myself to believe. Maybe one day...
Please know that this in the flash-fiction section. These things happen. Please remember to have hope and hold on for one second at a time, find a way to cope. There is always a way. I picked up the knife to see how sharp it was. I know how to do this. I...
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The trench
Inspired by a piece of military art I received as a gift. It spoke to me. This is what it said.Young man far from home In a unkind land fighting a war he doesn't understand The night blooms with mortar rounds thundering in the distance Beat of his heart a ragged staccato against his ribcage Pinpricks of gunfire like fireflies in the gloom Rumble a...
Our Friendship
Thank you for an awesome yearWhen you came into my life a year ago todayYou asked me to play a song and then to dance. I gladly accepted and walked out on the floor You took me in your arms as we looked into each other’s eyes. Smiling as I remember this moment as we have done this ma...
A Chance to explain
A second chance please...I really need the opportunity to make you understand what I actually meant. To tell you what I was trying to say when my words just came out all wrong. You see, my nerves got the better of me and I got all tongue tied And the compliment I was trying...
I feel so many things That when I take a moment to breathe A moment to pause before sleep overcomes me I cannot feel anything I am empty. I look on the past It’s a flurry of cold anger The freezing storm that lays a sheet of ice upon my forehead To cool m...
Hope is a thing with wings
Hope is attainable when you believeHope is driven by fear and by defeat It is a feeling of optimism Hope is a bird with bad wings Giving it courage to fly and to soar to overcome what is missing Hope is a thing with wings. Hope makes you dream of what seems unrealistic It is a feeling of o...
The world had become an awful place kicking me in the gut, day after day more bad news was the daily routine Doctors and nurses had little to say Bitter and broken when it was done I thought sadness was my new way of life My status quo an empty exist...
The Dream Maker from Oz, Part 2
He gave his heart and soul to his loveBefore the rest of this tale, a little history of this Dream Maker from Oz... Long ago, eons some would say, a young man was born on the Isle of Man. His father and his father's father taught this young man the way of a warrior in the use of sword and bat...