Ripples of Dream and Stone Throws of Reality

If all is true are we the ripples or the stone?Time is not yours.Rain can't wash clean your brain.Young minds ain't as open as they may think they are.What is ours and can everything be taken?

If all is true are we the ripples or the stone?

You reached for heaven but you've only gotten closer to hell.

Be all you can be and be you, not me

Uprooted trees frightened of what they can't control.

You can take my soul and dreams but you can't take my spirit.

Don't be someone else, life lives around us, be who you are

Crossing hearts and stealing souls young minds ain't so open.

Bibles, manifestos and popular culture 

Dig deep into the skin of those who are impressionable.

Out of time you wipe the stars clear from the sky, cause you haven't your own dreams.

Shadows shading pathways out of life, everyone's prettier, better and smarter 

Trees covering the shades of dream, the clouds in the sky scratch my wrists.

Out of the darkness time is not yours alone, some of us don't belong in our own time.

The day pulls the tears out of those who cry themselves to sleep.

Author's Note

Hang onto your dreams and your soul. Cause some devils are out to get them.

Reviews

[Quinn Blackburn]

Excellent piece! thoughtful, thought provoking, honest, wise advice with a tender heart. I particularly enjoyed this bit-

"Don't be someone else, life lives around us, be who you are
Crossing hearts and stealing souls young minds ain't so open.

Bibles, manifestos and popular culture
Dig deep into the skin of those who are impressionable."

[A]

Very deep, well captured piece.
I like the concept and how well-expressed it is.
I agree completely with the message you sent through this, hopefully we'll all hang onto our souls and keep solid ground.

[SpokenWord]

Always a deep thinker you are. So many desire to be someone else, or to fit into a group and they don't value being an individual. Dare to be different. Excellent write with some good universal principal advice woven into the words

[KAREN]

Deep and powerful poem! Excellent write and read!

[Moonflower]

A good read and solid concept, gives you a feeling of hopelessness mixed with determination. Verry nice

[misha]

Grea job, It was an interesting piece to read.

[These Haunted Hallways]

Wow, this was pretty powerful! I agree. It's best to be yourself no matter who or what you are. You can learn things from others to better yourself, but, one must be true to one's self as well. And, absolutely, the evils that invade us constantly shall not prevail, because we must be strong thru faith. And there is strength in faith. Very well written, this poem. Great work! :)

M.

[sentimental~ galore]

i like that you use the sky as a way of telling a story through poetry, i tend to look up to the sky alot too. ots manificent of you truly learn to appreciate it. Dreams are hope, without them your hopeless....broken. empty soul.

[Rose Masen]

"Out of time you wipe the stars clear from the sky, cause you haven't your own dreams."

This line is so fundamental to poetry as a whole! Your captured this in such a great way! In my favorites this is going!

[HopelesslyDevoted]

you have to be the best writer i have met on writers cafe yet. this is fantastic work with so many important messages mixed in. your work is amazing!!