False Friend

Girl

You give the title “friend” in “girl friend”

A bad name

You throw the word “friend” around

Like candy at a parade

 

Your sickly sweet facade is a travesty

And I brush you off my teeth gladly

Gladly

 

I don’t think you’re rotten to the core

You’re just a man-made

Man-ufactured version of once

All natural ingredients

As many lost people are

 

You could be a better kind of confection

Lady

Instead of conforming

To whatever new man you find a fancy

 

And then

Just then

You might be able to be true

 

To me

To others

Most importantly to you

 

But candy-girl

You’re just an unhealthy trick

Not a treat

As you are

 

 

@nicholehastings

Dream

Where has all your music gone? 
And the beauty of your soul?
Your soul’s song has grown silent
And I see you miss it so.
 
I wait to hear you play again,
For you to smile and laugh and see
That without a beautiful dream,
Your soul’s song may never be.
 
You stumble lost in darkness
On the desolate path of despair.
I stand shining a little light for you
To help guide you out of there.
 
Please come back, back to the light!
Please dream to awake and see –
The song of your soul is not lost.
Embrace beauty and set it free.
 
***
 
Where has all my music gone? 
And the beauty of my soul?
My soul’s song has grown silent
And you see I miss it so.
 
You wait to hear me play again,
For me to smile and laugh and see
That without a beautiful dream,
My soul’s song may never be.
 
I stumble lost in darkness
On the desolate path of despair.
You stand shining a little light for me
To help guide me out of here.
 
I’ll come back soon, to the light!
I’ll dream to awake and see –
The song of my soul is not lost.
I’ll embrace beauty; Set it free.
 
 
 
 

I Am

I’m not who I was
Nor who I want to be
Who I am always
Changes
Constantly

I’m not this body
It is not truly me
Being consciousness bliss
Love Life
Truth Beauty

I am the Witness
Unbound by memory
I am Supreme Self
I Am
Everything

River run water
Flowing to boundless sea
Gathered by bright sun
The clouds
Rains falling

I’m not who I was
Nor who I want to be
Who I am always
Is you
I Am We

 

Composed by Nichole Hastings

Robert Frost on Change

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

 

 

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

 

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life:

it goes on.”

December 25th

This is a confused day,
When folks kneel at alters and pray,
To God, Walmart, Santa and the U.S. $.
Gathering ’round a dying tree,
They rip flesh off gifts in glee,
Then happily burn burn burn it in fire.

Their dinner tables creak,
While homeless starve in streets,
Under the weight of X-MAS bounty.
As the day comes to a close,
Over-sugared kids wrapped in bows,
Fall restless in exhausted heaps and slumber.

@nicholehastings