Lay It Down
Lay It Down
For tonight you lay down
Your armor and your guard
Take from your sleeve your heart
Place it too on the ground
Leave behind foolish pride
All humility too
For neither can be true
When they are cloaked in lies
Questions & Answers
Comments
AUTHORThank you, Brenda. Sometimes the most is said with fewer words. It's a lot easier for me to express much with little in poetic form, that's for sure. Glad you liked it.
Short but so sweet and true.
Lies have no place in building love.
Great write.
- AUTHOR
Thanks, Peggy! Perhaps I'd do well to break all of my complex contemplations down into poems that people could interpret as they wish. Less room for total misunderstanding of intentions and interpretation that way. LOL.
No, I don't suppose anything cloaked in lies of any sort for any reason is easy, at least not for long. Whether it be relationships or life in general. Freedom is os much better and, yes, refreshing.
You say so much with very few words. That is a gift! It is sad to think that anyone has to live being cloaked in lies. That would not be easy to maintain that type of existence. It would be refreshing to lay that all aside.
- AUTHOR
Thanks, Eric. Glad you enjoyed the message enough to return.
- AUTHOR
Sometimes sleeping on it has a way of resolving the problem, or at least putting it more into perspective. You know the saying, it's hard to see the entire picture when you're inside the frame?
Thanks so much for stopping by, CrisSp.
Worth a revisit. Com Ong
What a timely read, at least for me. Let's sleep on it...for now.
Love from the sky~
- AUTHOR
Thank you, Dana. Glad you liked it. I'm not really sure where the second verse came from, to tell you the truth. The first verse wrote itself as I thought it. The second one took a little more effort. Just knew the first one didn't work as a stand alone. I'm happy with the way it turned out, though. Again, thanks so much.
Short, sweet and powerful. Lay it down for nothing good can grow if its tightly cloaked in lies. Powerful!
- AUTHOR
Thanks, Gypsy!
Fantastic poetry the emotions just shine through.
-
-
- AUTHOR
Thanks, Nell! I think sometimes I'd do better to communicate through poetry. LOL
Love the strength of this poem, short but powerful!
- AUTHOR
Awww, you guys are too kind. Thanks, Rinita.
- AUTHOR
Thanks, Hari. Much appreciated.
How strong and powerful in such few words! Loved it.
Wow. Amazing lines.
- hari
- AUTHOR
Hey, Bill. HP sent your comment to the spam folder for some reason. But at least it showed up to alert me there was a comment this time. Thank goodness, right. You're safe from HP oblivion.
Layers of defenses. . .layers of weapons. . .layers of personality, both good and bad. . .layers of just about everything. I suppose that's human.
Stripping off the layers and getting real....not an easy thing to do, eh?
- AUTHOR
Oh. Thanks, Eric! That's quite a compliment indeed. As for how we talk in Texas. ...Well, let's see. . .I just woke up and I'm fixin' to get my day started now that breakfast is over and the kids are fed. "Fixin' to" is a little phrase I picked up after I moved down south here. LOL
I forget how we talk in central Texas. I get Hobbs and down over near the Cajun. Perhaps "Howdy and Gracias"?
I just wrote this down with pen and paper for my son and I tonight. I figure I can give no better compliment.
- AUTHOR
Thanks, Mary. What a kind thing to say.
It's a nice poem to recite to one's self before one gets to sleep, very calming words after a day of work and interaction.
-
-
- AUTHOR
Ah, yes, that is the question. Thanks so much, Flourish.
What a stunningly beautiful poem. Makes me wonder what the real person underneath is made of here.
- AUTHOR
Thanks, Whonu. Blessings to you as well.
A very heartfelt work, my friend. Many blessings to you and yours. whonu
28