A.J. Hawker

Already Perfect

IT’S more difficult, to love.
More problematic, to care.
To open up your soul,
And have people tear you down.

It’s more wonderful, to hide.
More amazing just, to change.
To be like everyone,
That hates you for being you.

It’s more personal, to me.
More logical just, to die.
Than to walk a mile in,
Shoes that won’t ever fit you.

                                   ––A.J. Hawker

                                www.ajhawker.com

_{Past projects currently available for purchase:}

_Poetry

• _{Lay Down and Live paperback}
• _{Wake Up and Dream paperback}

_{©2013 A.J. Hawker}

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More for Less

MY life has become that,
I spend more time worrying,
and less time praying.

I’m afraid to fail so,
I spend more time planning,
and less time acting.

There’s pain I can’t say and,
I spend more time crying,
and less time laughing.

                                   ––A.J. Hawker

                                www.ajhawker.com

_{Past projects currently available for purchase:}

_Poetry

• _{Lay Down and Live paperback}
• _{Wake Up and Dream paperback}

_{©2013 A.J. Hawker}

_{Comments, or questions? Thoughts, or critiques? Something else you’d like to share? I’d love to hear from you!}

Marbles

I have to stay strong.

The first few steps, are like carrying a mountain;
to the ocean, never forget.

The journey there, is never like the journey back;
if you get back, never look there.

I’d like to be happy.

To see you smile, even though I don’t know you;
to be blissful, never hurting.

I will take a dream, and make it all seem true;
today’s as good, as any day.

                                   ––A.J. Hawker

                                www.ajhawker.com

_{Past projects currently available for purchase:}

_Poetry

• _{Lay Down and Live paperback}
• _{Wake Up and Dream paperback}

_{©2013 A.J. Hawker}

_{Comments, or questions? Thoughts, or critiques? Something else you’d like to share? I’d love to hear from you!}

Scripples

PAST dreams, seem fresh;
more distant, less helpful.
I run, some days;
still finding, time nowhere.

I write, like this;
endlessly, say nothing,
more distant, less helpful,
still finding, time nowhere.

                                   ––A.J. Hawker

                                www.ajhawker.com

_{Past projects currently available for purchase:}

_Poetry

• _{Lay Down and Live paperback}
• _{Wake Up and Dream paperback}

_{©2013 A.J. Hawker}

_{Comments, or questions? Thoughts, or critiques? Something else you’d like to share? I’d love to hear from you!}

The Fires of Hell

THAT’S the place the Devil dwells, the Light Bearer.
His lies taste true. Whispering so softly
Waiting to find us around every corner.

Or maybe it’s just our own misunderstanding,
It’s just our evolution undoing itself,
It’s just our Light Bearer of the mind’s decay?

That’s the place the Devil dwells. That is his home,
Those thoughts, those desires, those dirty addictions,
And the collective consciousness plummeting into the sea.

                                   ––A.J. Hawker

                                www.ajhawker.com

_{Past projects currently available for purchase:}

_Poetry

• _{Lay Down and Live paperback}
• _{Wake Up and Dream paperback}

_{©2013 A.J. Hawker}

_{Comments, or questions? Thoughts, or critiques? Something else you’d like to share? I’d love to hear from you!}

Spring Travel

THE grass is cold beneath my feet,
And the Spring rains have set it glittering;
The thin beams of moonlight have left me calm and speechless;
My footprints on the walk
As I try to make my way back home.

                                   ––A.J. Hawker

                                www.ajhawker.com

_{Past projects currently available for purchase:}

_Poetry

• _{Lay Down and Live paperback}
• _{Wake Up and Dream paperback}

_{©2013 A.J. Hawker}

_{Comments, or questions? Thoughts, or critiques? Something else you’d like to share? I’d love to hear from you!}

These Rains Today

THE pervasive darkness of these rainy days
Shows me precisely how bright you’ve made me,

And overshadows things that seemed urgent
In a time and a place, I was part of

Before finding a way to my own higher Self.
They, as well, retreat from out of Summer’s winds,

Like water on the concrete simmering
Into new clouds forming. Sanctuary,

Warmth is sanctuary and Summer’s winds
Lifting people’s hearts above the trees.

Please! Supreme Lord, hold the door for me
And high sage of this sacred essence be.

                                   ––A.J. Hawker

                                www.ajhawker.com

_{Past projects currently available for purchase:}

_Poetry

• _{Lay Down and Live paperback}
• _{Wake Up and Dream paperback}

_{©2013 A.J. Hawker}

_{Comments, or questions? Thoughts, or critiques? Something else you’d like to share? I’d love to hear from you!}

Words to No One

I.

LET Worry go swiftly
Away to trouble someone else.

II.

I stay up nights wondering
Heartbroken if you’ll come back home.
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Daytime
Lost in a silent
Deep, empty
Hole.

III.

HEARTS have soured
Sadly
At the many ways
Followers are falling
Fast upon green stomachs
To slither
For riches in red
And ever-present fires
Hurts
In my heavy heart

                                   ––A.J. Hawker

                                www.ajhawker.com

_{Past projects currently available for purchase:}

_Poetry

• _{Lay Down and Live paperback}
• _{Wake Up and Dream paperback}

_{©2013 A.J. Hawker}

_{Comments, or questions? Thoughts, or critiques? Something else you’d like to share? I’d love to hear from you!}

Strange Forces

THAT’S how happiness is,
Compassionate in heart.
It’s almost everywhere.

It’s not a thing you have;
A house, a nice car to drive,
To feel that you’re worthy.

Young children, know love,
Have strength, give everything,
Truths we all have, forgot.

Monkeys we’ve become,
With the minds of violent storms,
What is going wrong here…

                                   ––A.J. Hawker

                                www.ajhawker.com

_{Past projects currently available for purchase:}

_Poetry

• _{Lay Down and Live paperback}
• _{Wake Up and Dream paperback}

_{©2013 A.J. Hawker}

_{Comments, or questions? Thoughts, or critiques? Something else you’d like to share? I’d love to hear from you!}