“Pain and lesson”
Pain and lesson
A thousand lessons deep. I learn too late. Hold silence and listen. I lost many upon the road of living. I wished too late. To left brothers with kind words. To stop and pay attention to family members lost in the booze and drugs. Their suicide left empty places in my heart and mind.
I learn too late. The value of words. I wish often to have held silence and left family and friend with better words. Today I wished I called dear father and grandparent more often. I wished I told people I loved. I love them and I was thankful for them.
Hurt and tears are part of us. Few have not tripped over foolish words and actions. Today I don’t seek forgiveness. I seek to be a better man. I try to hold silence even when I want to rip someone apart.
Today I do silence prayers.
Lord of life.
Give me patience.
Make me think before I speak.
Please lord of life.
Give the strength to be kind and know quiet when I want to speak negative words.
Please give me the strength to know love, kindness and forgiveness.
Coyote/John Castellenas
Amen ❤ may peace be upon you ❤
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Thank you for the many comments dear friend. I appreciate every one.
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‘A thousand lessons deep’, that line will stay with me. Beautifully written, mate.
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Thank you for reading and the comment. I appreciate the comment.
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We all learn, sometimes with tears and in our most terrible moments our best lessons. Keep writing, for me it is the most therapeutical thing.
Yesterday I was watching the movie, “A monster calls” and thinking in life, in the many times I have been with the people I love and I have not told them. I was crying like a baby with the drama of the movie. Life is not easy John, some of us have to deal with more that what anyone could ever imagine. But while we are alive we have to try our best to be better. We cannot erase the past, or do things different, we cannot go back and write a new story, but we are in charge of our present and we can always we be better.
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I agree. The past should be lessons for us to be kinder and wiser. Thank you for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.
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