Love, Hope And All Poem by James Darwin Smith II

Never with looks
Does the soul even matter?
Redundant explanations heard
Heartbeats drown into oblivion
Only to come back for air
Trying all over again
Searching for solace and more


Fictional encounters
Along the way of denial
Roles of the obvious
Trying to trick destiny
Into submitting to eternal wallowing


And there it is
A heart so laden
Of slay and play
Marked with retreat
trying to fight jovially
Attempting to conjure
The spirit of joy and peace


And there I peek sadly
Upon the prophecies of pain
Watching hearts
Being battered and torn
Well before things happen
Yet, when all is said and done
Each of those hearts
Search for more ways
To live in denial's womb of woe


What of the magic?
The dreams fallowed?
Is true passion becoming endangered?
Why are there so many fetishes for disaster?
Torture, the theme of this world


The skin, not permanent
Souls last forever
But how many know
About extroverted visions
Never really mattering
As long as no one peeks into the soul


So at this time
Do extroverted visions even matter?
There is so much more


Freedom, The truest freedom imaginable
Is coming to terms with one's soul
Flying high in an endless paradise abode
Full of endless beauty
Beyond anything ever seen
Of imagined before


Closing my eyes
While rejoicing with this life
Evoking paradise
As any cruel reality
Should never be beheld
By any dreamer of love


Somehow, a smile beams
Upon my reluctant face
Knowing something sees within me
And their judgement is only based on soul


I live each day
Learning how to adapt
How to let go
I am far from educated
But there is no limit
Knowledge is an endless adventure
To gratefully behold


There is nothing to stop me
Striving to live on
Going as far
As this body can go


And when this flesh expires
My truest of self with emerge
My soul


Trying to give it all before I go


The flesh is only a cocoon
Endless is this soul


Trying to give it all before I can go


I have to be something
To anything
Well before it is time to go


Have to give it all and grow


Dreaming and dreaming
Of when I reach an endless paradise
That never stops growing
A utopia beyond
The flesh has ever known


I am but something
Flaws, everything and more


Someday, I will be all soul
Beyond this flesh
Traveling everywhere
Full of awe and wonder
Where this soul's intentions
Wants me to go


The truest freedom
Is trusting this soul
Believing myself
And..

Love, Hope and all