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I Wake Up Every Morning
I wake up every morningwondering what the day will bringsunshine, love, and flowershappiness bursting at the seamsFocusing on the positivegets me right on through the dayknowing things are alwaysalways working out my wayFor I have learnt to trust insomething larger than myselfan innate sense of letting goand embracing all that is to comeBut every now […]
Be Gentle with Yourself
And when the day beginsyet the bed remains a callingyou’re not wrong to lie inbe gentle with yourselfThat long list that beckonsall the things that you have to doyet a cup of tea is all you wantbe gentle with yourselfThe floors that need a-sweepingthe windows all blur and grubbybut you’ve spent an hour chattingbe gentle […]
Room in my head, quiet in my heart
It’s half past four in the morning and I creep quietly downstairs. The lights that illuminate the kitchen and the dining room make it feel much more like daytime than the actual mindless time that it really is. Still as the rest of my family slumbers, i manage to tap into that quiet, silent space […]
Fleeting wisdom
Sparks flashAll knownEnlightened Light lostAll darkBewildered Eyes cloudDense fogIgnorant 23 Nov 2022
And as I stand, upon the shoulders, of the shoulders, of the shoulders
And as I stand,upon the shoulders, of the shoulders, of the shouldersof all the womenwho came before the ones who lived their lives in mystic silencestuffing downswallowing the bitterness of lifetheirs the ones who carried mighty burdensbent overbroken backs under heavy weightstheirs the ones whose loud clear voices tolddifferent storiesnew beginnings, middles and endingstheirs the […]
I Am Ready
I am ready to embrace myself and all that I amI am ready to accept all the joys and privileges of being meI am ready to hold myself and all of me, in the highest of my own esteemknowing that far beyond all that i can imagine and dreamI know that there is a purpose […]
My every wish for you
I wish you wellon this your journey through lifeI wish you easethat you may find joy in all that comes to youI wish you smilesthat will fill your life with the wonder of friendsI wish you graceto rise and meet each challenge that comes your wayI wish you peaceand always a path to pick through […]
A Legacy to Leave
Empires built and legacies entrusted success as society defines it remains the big bold wonders the kind that gets reported on the type that makes it to the lists Yet the longer I think about it the more I churn it over in my mind I’ve truly come to believe and I know this, as […]
Colours
And if the world were black and whitewould we be more colour blindto all of the differences among uswould it make the world more kind And if there were but two colourswould our days be completely drollor would there still be comparisonsof one superior and the other less so? 4 March 2022 (c) Li-ling Ooi
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