Path To Forever



Triple heart the wonder felt
Love actual , all at once
Alone , but not lonely
They kept on coming

Day and night, I was by myself
Yet they wanted me , stalked my
Electronic soul
They came , though I didn’t even know
Their names in the beginning

I met the first, just words on a screen
I fell in love with my imagination
And , an old phorograph
Though we had never met or talked directly

She told me she wanted me but craved
A daddy, lost in her past
Another , who needed a new life, a chance
To forget .. her past , her pain

A soul who was on fire faced the world
She was strong, but alone in herself
A woman who was chased by death
Yet, craved life

So many reasons, so many chances
So many dreams undrempt
Lifetimes of unfulfilled aspirations
Regrets and pain no joy had

Lost denizens of choices made wrong
Travelers searching for redemption
Hoping for renewal, seeking the elusive
Heart and ultimate love

From emptiness to abundance from anguish
To peace, they all come seeking forgiveness
For actions, they had no answer to
And reasons that could not be understood or
Undone

Time marched on , leaving my soul longing
For reconciliation, for desire , for them all
In silent tones, pondered , my weary mind
As each a fallen angel, yet a path of promise
As they grasp for their salvation in my eyes

Made anew in my arms, given solace in my
Touch
All needed peace in a warm embrace
All needed the security of a sure commitment
As they reach for my spirit, promising light

Promising physicality, promising sincerity
Of a loyal partner and a sure friend
As they fought, the rising flood of uncertainty
To gain the one prize , that was the greatest gift that had eluded them all
Home

An Original Poem by H.R. Beebe

Seeking Eve



In Twilight wonder
The faded brilliance left
Me wanting, needing
Something, anything

To fill the void , mitigate
The shadows dwelling in
My sundered existence
Memories of the light

Haunting me, pulling me
Driving me to seek solace
In the walled off places
Hidden in my soul

I chased the spark here and there
Knowing full well the futility of it
As time has taught me the rarity
Of the dawn, once witnessed is unmistakable

Imitation and illusion is not a replacement
It becomes a prison of repetition
A duplication of failure
As I grasp at the real, reach toward the perception
Chase the dream, my mind concocted

As my memory tries in repetitious fashion
To duplicate my experience
To recreate the wonder of it all
To bear witness to the spectacle

The peace that took me as the dawn broke
To purify my tortured journey
Give it purpose, meaning
I traveled long and arduous roads searching

For any place or thing to remind me of that
Moment of Awe, that defined the reason
For standing in the darkness
For being punished for my audacity

To believe I was worthy of the blessing
Of clarity, of being juxtaposed from
A shadowed sub existence to
Having my deepest desire fulfilled

Oh, I have tread this path before to be sure
Even transcended to the light
But , without purpose, without meaning
To give understanding to the moment

It was wasted on a man blinded by ignorance
Stifled by the greed of a miserable past
It prevented the connection to true illumination
Left me empty inside, cold, alone

Each false dawn stole my resolve
Each time the light was taken from me
Destroyed a piece of my spirit until
I was convinced the darkness was all there was

I chased the morning with a longing I can’t readily explain
It has been expressed as brilliance as an awakening
Even a rebirth of sorts, granting new beginnings

However, until you stand witness to it
There are no words to describe
The feeling of the desolation drained
Of the spectacle of sheer joy

You encounter as the loneliness fades
The shadows are banished
Your eyes opened to the wonderous gift
Of the coming dawn

This is what it means to know unconditional love.

This is the actual experience of life.

An Original Poem by H.R. Beebe

The Disrespectful Blow


Standing in darkness
Cause I’ve lost the light
Fell from the pinnacle
It’s gone from my sight

Where I started full of love
It’s gone now, decimated
Torn away the hope
Dead the dream of life

Nothing is left, just sack clothe
Sitting on the ground in lament
How could it be all gone
Everything I knew in the end

Not a stick left standing
It’s all dead to my eyes
My life, my baby, my marriage
Fell away in quick succession

I didn’t see it the on the horizon
The storm that was to nie
Like Job I’m left wondering
Where did I go wrong

Was it my countenance
My drive or my lack of time
Did my black heart move forward
The eventual pain and strife

I’ve gone over time and again
Trying to see the moment it changed
The moment my resolve departed
And shredded my original way

It all came unraveled, a piece at a time
My morals departed, all gone
There I was alone again in my own head
Wondering what happened, was there anything I could have said

A man without a home, lost in familiar land
Left to stave and thirst, tortured by my own hand
I craved to be needed, to be loved
But, feeling the longing like a hole in the sand

Devoid of my confidence, a man adrift in my time
Aware that the executioners face under the mask was mine
In the blackness, I felt it there my real sin

The sin of not caring, the lack of empathy not for others
But for myself, I chose to face the empty meanlessness
That was the end of the decision I made

This hell was one of my own design
The devil who came and with him the intentional pain
Was a manifestation of the loss I felt self inflicted

After so long I had become dead inside
Empty of anything real
Just going through the motions
Of an illusion created left on my knees I kneeled

I found in the end it was I who blew up the facade
Burned it to the ground until the ashes were lifted in the wind
To try and feel something, any semblance of the the thing called … life

As stood there in the absence of light
With the weight of it all upon my mind
I knew it had to happen
It was a fate I was destined

An Original Poem by H.R. Beebe

Anything For Love


Lost in the moment
I’m not sure who I am
Where I’m going
Stuck between worlds
Between Loves
Each a foreign land

Each one an expression
Frozen in time
Can’t let the moment go
Cant be free in my mind

Lost in the moment
I’m not sure who I am
Where I’m going
Stuck between worlds
Between Loves
Each a foreign land

I know it’s wrong but
Each feeling ls a void
A hole in my soul
That needed a hand

I revile in the joy of it all
Each face, each verbal caress
All summed up in a fullness
I can’t readily express

The darkness has risen
From my continence
The light shined on me
A solace for my tortured mind

Pondering the inevitable
Crash after soaring to those
Lofty heights, fallen expectations
Of a future of promise… now loss

Yet torn asunder by fate
Each moment ticked by
With dread anticipation
Of the reckoning to come

When the truth a rogue power
Will signify the clarity
Hidden by my selfish fear
That to let go would bring loneliness
Again

Moral dilemma, immoral choice
Four souls held tight, their unknowing
A mirror to reflect true emotion to avoid
The dark illusion of a relationship, a bond
Divided, separated in pieces
Hearts

Each fragile like glass, a moment of Impropriety could shatter it all
A clarity would force an action
To remove the peace, to remove the
Calm assurance that if you lose one
More remain, spirits of night

Made plain in the coming dawn
Until the hard truth will be all that remains
Stark, empty, loneliness
And the pain. Broken you earn your own reality.

Forced to release them all in a wave of grief. Of knowing, I can’t avoid the coming
Storm
The tempest of my own soul
Torn asunder by the act

Of acknowledging I am the cause

An Original Poem by H.R. Beebe

      A Shadow Faded

Freedom, shadows in the past
An empty field, nothing standing
Are we living under our own rights
Morality, or Mortality
Whose hand holds the reins

We think we know, yet
Do we , Really?
We appear to be living in the past
In a place, where inalienable
Actually meant something

Hidden, the real, the true
Slaves, without chains
Chains, without links
The secrets, that are not
Shone,
Yet, we are being forced
To our knees

Without , Understanding

A document,  in time
To enumerated our future
A number, A line it spelled out
Our freedoms, Our new future

Mankind rejoiced, A future unbridled
Freedom for all, past history to be forgotten
Only to find Our future, was secretly
Hijacked, by those who stood in shadow

We believed our future wasn’t written
Yet, in time, those who could see
Recognized,  the same patterns
The same actions

We found, we were enslaved
By the same ideas
That killed, the ideas in the past
The Shadow, of Freedom fading

Until, it ceased to be seen
At all.

An Original Poem by H.R. Beebe

I Watch It Pass

The window shows the scene, a freedom
if you are willing to take it
And, yet most will look on as they sit wishing
their lives away and never experiencing it
So as the view changes, so changes their desire
It leads to sleepless nights, and restless days
At the thought, of the future, the old worries
arise, lost in a past that has worn out it’s welcome
Each sleepless night, I pay homage to the past
As the world changes outside my window
But, I never do…

A Original Poem By H.R Beebe

A Single Truth      

 

She was all I had
She was all I wanted
As the world becomes hell
I face the darkness knowing
I got what I wanted

Through the tempest, I stood
my ground
A hundred demons stood against
me
I didn’t blink, I never feared them
I knew she was there

As Civilizations crumble
I walked amongst the ruins
I survived as it all collapsed
The stars fell, as the sky changed
The people ran, and hid their faces

She walked by my side
Everything, was gone
An though the powers that were
no more

She was all that I had left
She was all I needed
The world was just a facade
A stage where she taught me

Who I really was, in the chaos
And, who I needed to be
As we walked the path
She showed me the light
In amongst all the darkness
She was my light

An Original Poem by H.R. Beebe

Being

            

If you think I am a denizen of this
reality
You would be mistaken
I am not controlled
By Thought
By The Physical
By The Program
I am not controlled
I see through the Program, the Process
the Indoctrination
My purpose is to see the Truth
be Free
So if you are looking for a slave
It’s not Me
If you want to be involved in Control
I will not be there
If you want the Truth
I can’t teach it or tell you it…
But..
I can show you the path..
You will have to walk it for Yourself
That is my Pupose…
I am a beginning point
A sign post..
That is what I am
I am Free
If you want true Freedom
Follow Me..

An Original Poem by H.R. Beebe

An Errant Soul Found

I have a secret, it took a long while
to understand
I am my own man, I don’t require
another person to grant me self worth
With age grants understanding

You can’t lead me, control me or force
me into a box called normal

I don’t need constant supervision,  or
a person to decide my fate
Win or lose, I am my own person
Those younger might judge me, yet truth
is I don’t care what the world thinks of me

I have been, son,brother,husband and father
I served my country, and did every labor job
you can think of
Being forced back into someone else’s idea
of who I should be is not happening

I’m too old, too jaded and I am not ruled by my
biological urges, or someone else’s whims
I control my destiny,  and will never go back
to the fool I once was

I will walk my own path, alone or if you choose to follow, but I will never surrender my
will again.

An Original Poem by H.R. Beebe