FEELING THE PEACE

I feel I have lost the fight

Don’t know if I’m wrong or right

I just want to feel the joy of life

My whole day is like being lost in the night

What to go where I haven’t gone

Find the joy a glories song

A inspiring friend for life long

Just want to feel strong

Where did I go where have I been

I don’t like where, I’m at

I don’t want to live in the past

Don’t want to live life fast

Just want to take it slow

Sitting on a mountain top

Looking up to the Lord

With a prayer to fell hole

©Copyright 1998 Thomas Dooley

ALL FROM WITHIN

Is there a place? was the question asked

A place for all the pain All the tears and suffering

A place for the difficult

She found it within a poem

With in the ground, in all of nature

She found it... Within the banks of a river

In a river that has gone by so long ago

As she stepped in to bathe

This river wasn't the same

She wasn't the same

This was her time of self discovery

She found the answers to her questions

She found them within herself

The joy has been found

The words still survive in her heart

Our mother's gardens still bloom

She has survived the difficult

She found it all from within

©2009 Thomas Dooley

This poem was inspired by the book The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996) by Alice Walker.