Regrowth is not gentle.
I died at midnight—
A slow bleed,
crying spells,
fractures beneath the surface.
Learning to grow
in the soil of last year’s failures—
they are lessons,
not a death sentence.
I shed the stories that kept me small,
shut the doors that fed the dark.
I make peace with sunlight,
and the quiet pull of moonlit nights.
I embrace the changes—
soft,
loud,
necessary.
I hold the tender moments.
I love—despite the madness.
Revival.
Bring me back from the dead—
pull me under
with the weight of your sins.
I’ll tend to your wounds
and carry your name
long after—
it breaks me.
Fallen tears,
coffee stains.
Sunlight
cracks through the window—
soft,
but unforgiving.
Heaven is a state of mind.
Hell lives in the heart.
And letting go
never leaves clean.
Find reasons to stay and stay relentless.
Rest is still progress and rebirth is a journey.
You will find your way.
JACQUELINE LENTE POETRY
You smell like rain and I want to be a part of your storm.
Drown me in your gaze.
Rearrange my mind.
Hold me close,
Skin to skin.
Keep me warm from the cold of the outside world
And the world inside my head.
Our demons may be different,
But we wear matching wounds.
Tangled bones and a map of scars.
Just trying to find some guidance home.
– “Two Strangers”
Jacqueline Lente Poetry
Is it better to feel numb?
Even just for a little while.
To turn off from the sadness, you’ll know you will have to face again and again
Or is feeling numb a sign that the sadness has become too much? and you have become used to feeling like this,
Used to all the bullshit and the trauma, that feels never-ending.
And being numb is a coping response to try and feel some peace,
even if its short lived, even if its for one moment.
One little sliver of peace amongst the chaos.
One moment of floating instead of falling into the void of darkness that is my mind.
– “Is it Better to Feel Numb?”
– Jacqueline Ann Lente
It may be a struggle to get up, but you can overcome. Wake up, let the hot water of the shower warm your bones. Take a moment of peace, breathe. Be proud of yourself. Have faith in yourself. Live to tell another day, live to make another memory, one you may cherish forever or one you can say that you survived from and made it though ❣
– “Live To Tell Another Day”
– Jacqueline Ann Lente
Break Free.
Break Form.
Do not conform,
To the unstable society,
Full of lies and fake belief.
Do not become a robot,
A part of the 21st century working machine.
– “Break Free, Break Form” – Jacqueline Ann Lente
Hold me tight,
Bring me escape.
The shadows of the world fall too heavy upon my face.
I feel so out of it,
Like I don’t belong,
At all in this place.
– “Bring Me Escape” – Jacqueline Ann Lente
Seize the day,
Embrace the change.
Watch from all perspective,
And follow wisdom and intuition.
Follow passion and positivity.
Every day is a new day,
A new opportunity,
To rise up and be great.
– “Seize The Day” – Jacqueline Ann Lente
We are so connected,
But disconnected simultaneously.
We display a picture perfect life,
But live in despair.
Our reality a lonely one with no one really there.
We judge our moments on whether or not they are instagram worthy,
Not on the moment itself.
We’ve lost the spirit and adventure and our basic humanity over everything else.
We hide behind screens from the gift of life.
Mainly worrying about wi-fi instead of the outside.
Outside in nature, which we slowly kill.
While parading on screen,
Falsely committing to saving the world we live in.
– “21st Century” – Jacqueline Ann Lente
Life is like a flower blooming, dying and blooming again. It teaches us the idea of death and rebirth of the self and the soul. Continuously entering the cycle of beauty and pain, lessons and understanding. Changing in order to grow again. Embrace all that comes and goes. Do not dwell too long on the negative. Let it pass as it shows you clearly all that is happening before you. Invite in the positivity and let it wash over you with warmth and vitality. Let the sun shine above you and flow with the winds of energy constantly at play.
Maybe loneliness is a way in which to learn to accept being alone with ones true self, both light and dark side. It can be scary and painful to face the oppressed thoughts trapped deep inside ones mind. To confront the real reality of your thoughts and actions. To be happy with being alone is to work with ones self through the struggle and destruction to see the lesson of it all and to let go of all fear. To float away with the energy surrounding us, guiding us to a higher viewpoint of all perspective. Calming the beast inside us that wishes to crawl out screaming. Silence in truth and clarity, serenity and peace binding the soul.
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