When it all seems too much

[Lisa Walford]

Happy Equinox everyone! 

Falling leaves, failing negotiations, feeling the fear around the world. Yet, in the foyer of my heart, I will always know that I can do something today, tomorrow, for someone, maybe you! We are so precious.. this poem came at a good time.. it speaks for itself. 

John Roedel considers himself a comic, who fell into poetry. I find that his narratives speak very simply and openly.. 

As always, you can find me Friday 9:00 AM and Wednesday 7:30 AM. 

www.CFYLA.com/Lisa 

an open poem to a world-weary empath,

you can’t leave Earth yet

 ~ because I just flipped ahead about 

a hundred pages in your story and I read

that someday you will be the reason someone

else doesn’t give up on their life

I’m sorry to spoil the end of your epic tale

~ but someday you will be the one who ignites the blaze in another person’s heart that won’t ever be put out again

don’t complicate the plot of your story

~ you are here to be lamplighter that hands out little bits of your flame to ensure the rest of the world doesn’t exist in darkness

I know you have been scorched so many times

~ to love the world is to sometimes be burned at the the stake by others who mistake your gift of compassion as a personal weakness

I know it’s not easy to be a bringer of light to those who have become addicted to shadows

~ but we need you to be a gardener of effervescent seeds that you will perhaps never see grow into burning rosebushes that can be seen from space

Oh, my love,  don’t give into the calling despair

~ set your life on fire with kindness and watch how many other people come out of their caves to sit by your campfire heart to share their own stories of survival

Oh my love,  you are my favorite element

~ john roedel