Affected Honesty | blakereflected

O P E N

This Is Nothing

I cannot sleep The pain leaves me in vain I toss, I turn I sigh, I yearn I think of the end My thoughts don’t pretend I wish I could...

The Way I Used To Be

Sobriety is uncertain It is a curtain I wish to keep closed As the song goes One day at a time Sobriety wants to be a friend of mine I...

Paralyzed By The Past

The past fills me with running thoughts Mistakes I have made, over and over Again and again What keeps me breathing is the love of my...

A Conversation

I hang in a mind that wonders why I should And tells me why I shouldn’t For the people I love I couldn’t For family, for love, I wouldn’t...

A Rhetorical Ending, A Questioned Beginning

The grass breathes as the wind increases And so I lay, on broken pieces Waiting to inhale And exhale, so broken For through my thought,...

Crazy, I Cannot Be

Sirens scream loudly In a day so cloudy I can barely see Deafened by my own inner thoughts Overwhelmed by everything Surrounded by...

The Verse Of My Life

Lost in translation, watching traffic to and fro Where do I stay Where do I go I listen to music drowned by a bird that hums And so, my...

Drifting From A Blink To Open Eyes

Sadness seeps through days that never end It stays as years vanish over and over Happiness is a blink I wish it were more than a thought...

Waking From Silence

Paralyzed Conscience When the world is asleep I am awake When the world is awake I am asleep Dreaming in a state of paralysis I beg to my...

An Angel I Knew

Scattered amongst the stars Is a life that has felt scars Amongst a pain that does persist Is an angel living through the mist In life,...

Popper

On Sunday April 1st, 2018, my grandfather, my Popper, sadly passed away. He lived a very long, full life, of 94 years, but towards the...

Why Is Day Only Night?

Steadily you write As ashes hit the paper Awake, though it is late The night has come and so you wait You dreamt tears of sadness A pain...

Tomorrow Is Today

Is such a poem near or far Are such words laid out like the stars When you breathe do you choke on the choices you make Is it life for...

Saturday's Moon

Kissing to stop time Holding hearts in a night that shines Walking through the vines, touching broken branches Floating above ground,...

The Bird In The Room

A breath lifts birds into flight A breath gives strength to all life The wind carries your body to journey’s end A journey that does not...

{"items":["5f823dde81b3850017322485","5f823dde81b3850017322486","5f823dde81b3850017322487","5f823dde81b3850017322488","5f823dde81b3850017322489","5f823dde81b385001732248a","5f823dde81b385001732248b","5f823dde81b385001732248c","5f823dde81b385001732248d","5f823dde81b385001732248e","5f823ddee92dba0017565faf","5f823ddee92dba0017565fb0","5f823ddee92dba0017565fb1","5f823ddee92dba0017565fb2","5f823ddee92dba0017565fb3"],"styles":{"galleryType":"Columns","groupSize":1,"showArrows":true,"cubeImages":true,"cubeType":"max","cubeRatio":1.7777777777777777,"isVertical":true,"gallerySize":30,"collageAmount":0,"collageDensity":0,"groupTypes":"1","oneRow":false,"imageMargin":32,"galleryMargin":0,"scatter":0,"rotatingScatter":"","chooseBestGroup":true,"smartCrop":false,"hasThumbnails":false,"enableScroll":true,"isGrid":true,"isSlider":false,"isColumns":false,"isSlideshow":false,"cropOnlyFill":false,"fixedColumns":0,"enableInfiniteScroll":true,"isRTL":false,"minItemSize":50,"rotatingGroupTypes":"","rotatingCropRatios":"","columnWidths":"","gallerySliderImageRatio":1.7777777777777777,"numberOfImagesPerRow":3,"numberOfImagesPerCol":1,"groupsPerStrip":0,"borderRadius":0,"boxShadow":0,"gridStyle":0,"mobilePanorama":false,"placeGroupsLtr":true,"viewMode":"preview","thumbnailSpacings":4,"galleryThumbnailsAlignment":"bottom","isMasonry":false,"isAutoSlideshow":false,"slideshowLoop":false,"autoSlideshowInterval":4,"bottomInfoHeight":0,"titlePlacement":"SHOW_BELOW","galleryTextAlign":"center","scrollSnap":false,"itemClick":"nothing","fullscreen":true,"videoPlay":"hover","scrollAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","slideAnimation":"SCROLL","scrollDirection":0,"scrollDuration":400,"overlayAnimation":"FADE_IN","arrowsPosition":0,"arrowsSize":23,"watermarkOpacity":40,"watermarkSize":40,"useWatermark":true,"watermarkDock":{"top":"auto","left":"auto","right":0,"bottom":0,"transform":"translate3d(0,0,0)"},"loadMoreAmount":"all","defaultShowInfoExpand":1,"allowLinkExpand":true,"expandInfoPosition":0,"allowFullscreenExpand":true,"fullscreenLoop":false,"galleryAlignExpand":"left","addToCartBorderWidth":1,"addToCartButtonText":"","slideshowInfoSize":200,"playButtonForAutoSlideShow":false,"allowSlideshowCounter":false,"hoveringBehaviour":"NEVER_SHOW","thumbnailSize":120,"magicLayoutSeed":1,"imageHoverAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imagePlacementAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","calculateTextBoxWidthMode":"PERCENT","textBoxHeight":167,"textBoxWidth":200,"textBoxWidthPercent":50,"textImageSpace":10,"textBoxBorderRadius":0,"textBoxBorderWidth":0,"loadMoreButtonText":"","loadMoreButtonBorderWidth":1,"loadMoreButtonBorderRadius":0,"imageInfoType":"ATTACHED_BACKGROUND","itemBorderWidth":0,"itemBorderRadius":0,"itemEnableShadow":false,"itemShadowBlur":20,"itemShadowDirection":135,"itemShadowSize":10,"imageLoadingMode":"BLUR","expandAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imageQuality":90,"usmToggle":false,"usm_a":0,"usm_r":0,"usm_t":0,"videoSound":false,"videoSpeed":"1","videoLoop":true,"jsonStyleParams":"","gallerySizeType":"px","gallerySizePx":490,"allowTitle":true,"allowContextMenu":true,"textsHorizontalPadding":-30,"itemBorderColor":{"themeName":"color_15","value":"rgba(0,0,0,1)"},"showVideoPlayButton":true,"galleryLayout":2,"calculateTextBoxHeightMode":"MANUAL","textsVerticalPadding":-15,"targetItemSize":490,"selectedLayout":"2|bottom|1|max|true|0|true","layoutsVersion":2,"selectedLayoutV2":2,"isSlideshowFont":true,"externalInfoHeight":167,"externalInfoWidth":0},"container":{"width":978,"galleryWidth":1010,"galleryHeight":0,"scrollBase":0,"height":null}}

2 3 4 5