Ever After?

Let this sun brighten your thoughts today and every day
Let him brighten not just your thoughts but also the words you say
Always remember no matter how dark your day may seem,
All it takes is the smallest ray shining through your nightmares to turn them to dreams
If you invite him in when ever you feel lost even in the dead of the night
From this day forward he will help you in your fight
Please know this too:
All you have to do is ask and I too will join in that fight right beside you
©2014 Shavon Taylor
I just read this article and it literally brought tears to my eyes!
“Why Canadian babies should sleep in cardboard boxes like Finnish babies do”-The Globe and mail
The fact that the government won’t cover maternity leave unless you have paid into E.I. is bad enough, but to look at the children in Canada and the national poverty crisis! How many expectant mothers don’t even bother to see a doctor before they have no choic? The incentive plan the finnish have put in action is quite clearly an effective one! Their message is a comforting and supportive one, a small guesture that says “You matter and so does our baby.” Yes OUR baby, that baby will grow in OUR country, be taught in OUR schools, follow OUR laws, and become an essential part of our community. Don’t we want OUR children to grow up in the same nurturing and healthy environmen? Don’t we want OUR children to proudly say “I am Canadian!”? Please help me tell the Canadian governement it’s time to stop attempting to hide our problems in the boxes they keep in the back on the top shelf and start putting babies in them, with love and care in hopes to help each and every one get the start at life they deserve!
© 2013 Shavon Taylor CloversAllOver
©2013 Shavon Taylor
Have to stop hurting myself, hating myself, underestimating myself
I cannot undo any of what has already been done
Nor can I keep picking up my baggage as I turn to run
There are so many ways to destroy yourself
So many ways to just ignore the help
Yes, for me it has been a struggle since day one
Not a single day have I spent on my own basking in the sun
I hide in the clouds
Letting myself get lost amongst the crowds
Allowing my life to be pulled by some unseen current
You’d think a past like mine may act as a kind of deterrent
Wisdom they say is making mistakes and learning not to make them again
I often wish my hurting heart would listen to my clever weary brain
Never even taking notice of the warning signs as I race through the back roads
Like some demonic highway
If I want help I must realize it can’t always be my way
Those who offer opinions aren’t always trying to disagree
Most times they too only wish to set me free
Apparently tho I am not the only one I hide behind this mask
I watch thru the peep holes as helpers turn to monsters before my eyes
Before they can even get near their task
Once again its time to pull down the blinds
I sincerely don’t want to see the world and all humanities crimes
I’m still struggling to find real faces, for in this world it takes all kinds
At last tho I have realized this battered heart has no clue what it needs to find
So from this day forward I vow I will no longer allow it to take the controls from my mind
©2013 Shavon Taylor CloversAllOver.com
This is a poem I wrote for my Poppy. For those of you wondering Poppy is what I called my Grandpa. I wrote this after he passed and I read it at his “Celebration of Life” tho I’m not sure anyone understood the words thru my sobs. He didn’t pass on or even near Remembrance Day, it was actually around Easter. My Poppy was an amazing man who did fight in the war tho. I think the reason my loss of him hits so hard on this day may have something to do with the fact that I wish I’d thanked him for fighting for us! Maybe it even has something to do with the poppies everyone wears reminding me of just how much I miss him. I hope this makes a few people smile the way he always could! I love you Poppy, gone though never forgotten <3 xxoxx <3
It’s so hard to believe you’re gone
Probably because in our hearts and minds you will always live on
So determined and strong willed you would never accept defeat
I remember when I was so young, thinking just touching your big comfy red chair was a treat
You guarded that chair from miles away
Only under siege of giggles or cuddles would your defences fray
Even Nanny’s crawling plant knew enough to steer clear
Like lightning you’d strike, with one quick glance I was frozen in fear
I remember the excitement of having one sticky hand snatched up thinkin’ “oh man, so close!”
I swear I still remember every inch of that house
I still know where every candy dish was placed
So many memories that will never be erased
Like the last time I saw you, I remember this one like it was just yesterday
“Hey Bon bon how you doin’ kiddo?” I can still hear you say
As you poked my tummy in that ticklish spot, you know the one kinda low
You knew all of our torturously ticklish spots
You must have learned them when we were just tots
I will never forget you, nor will I ever stop loving you
Just as I am so sure of the happiness it brings to our family
Knowing you now fly high with your newly found wings
©2013 Shavon Taylor
Everyday I’m searchin‘ for a lil more sun
A lil more focus maybe a lil less fun
These wet rainy days leave me lookin’ for a dry place to sit
Another to get close to, some place I may fit
Seems the ones I tend to meet I end up wishin‘ I could forget
Don’t get me wrong I refuse to live a life I regret
Tho these showers can be lonely and cold
My future, my happiness remains untold
My entire lifetime I may spend searchin’ for you
All the while you might be just behind me racing to pursue
Like the fresh forest floor covered in dew
I wake each morning seeking something new
A reason for being, checking the window in hopes it‘s a rainbow I‘ll be seeing
Tho I don’t let the storms outside get to me
For i know deep down happiness will one day find me
That will be the day i break free finally
Free from the rain, the pain, walking proudly, no shame
Somehow you will know how to tame my flame
As you ignite the spark
I will know I will never agian endure another nite alone in the dark
Together we will always find the sun
Where we will so happily run
Away from the sadness and gloom falling into a bed of laughter in our own room
A place where love and care will forever live
A place where there’s no wrong we would commit that the other couldn’t forgive
At times it hurts to stay locked in my head
In the feilds of flowers I’d much rather tred
Alone searching for those sunny days is where I remain instead
I know I can‘t do this all on my own
Still I’ll refuse to go on in misery each day only to grumble and groan
One day happiness will be my home
Together in the sun we will shine
For I am yours and you will be mine
wi©2013 Shavon Taylor