The Shape of Balance

Harmony lives where edges agree,

Where fire learns patience from the sea.

Not sameness, no surrender of self,

But weight well-held on a steady shelf.

Two lives aligned by unspoken law,

Knowing when to step back, when to pause.

Desire exists, yet discipline stays,

A quiet order shaping their days.

It’s found in restraint that doesn’t resent,

In truth that’s felt but not fully spent.

In choosing the long, the good, the right,

Even when want leans hard at night.

Harmony is not the absence of strain,

It’s tension carried without breaking the chain.

A mutual knowing, calm and clear,

That peace is built by what you spare.

So they move with care through intersecting ground,

Neither lost, neither tightly bound.

In the space where chaos could easily start,

They keep a careful, congruent heart.

Dear Ray…

Where hope outpaces fear and faith finds breath,

You rest, my son, in promise yet to step.

The world is wide, with wonder yet to see,

With paths of purpose waiting patiently.

I won’t deny the days will ask you more,

But love will teach you what you’re living for.

Strong hearts are shaped by truth and tested time,

And growth finds grace in every hill you climb.

I named you, Ray, for friendship tried and true,

For steady strength and goodness seen through you.

A name that means when storms around you rise,

There’s calm conviction carried in your eyes.

Ray: warmth and wisdom, steady, sure, and kind.

Micah: justice gentle, mercy well-aligned.

Eli: my God, when roads feel steep or strange,

He walks beside you, constant through all change.

So rise with joy, my son, receive the day,

Let laughter lead you, let love light your way.

The world may wander, wrestle, lose its way,

But God is good, and goodness will grow with you Ray.

Tomorrow . . .

Deep within my heart resides a spirit of the wind

Seeking shelter from the pain that dominates my mind

Holding painful secrets that no one else can know

Feeling the pain of life yet the cracks cannot show

Winding slowly through my mind, the thoughts of yesterday

Tender moments shared with whom there is no decay

Feeling all the emptiness deep within to enable me smile 

Filling it with love and kindness for it to last a mile

The sting of failure can reach so far, no limit does it hold

Sometimes in the dark of night i feel its grasp unfold

A friend that has held me close and wiped away my tears

A kindred spirit, who has warmed my life and taken away my fears

Moments that i cannot share for fear of pain so deep

Misery encapsulates and causes my emotions to heap
In the early morning, right before the sun comes up

The tears that stain my pillow never seem to let-up

Hold my heart with gentle hands, it breaks so easily

Take the sunshine from the sky and place it tenderly

Hold your soul against my breast and feel the peace i seek

Share a piece of heaven with me today for life is just so bleek

#Warmth

This warmth she is feeling
Sends her heart racing
She doesn't want to let go
Is this love that she is feeling?

Gliding across her tenderness
His fingertips survey
This happened to her once before...
Its not safe to feel this way

The tenderness in his kiss
Will confirm the gentleness in his heart
She thought this fire went out
After all this time gone by

But yet, there is a burning
A craving for something she should not be yearning
Blinded and confused
In this muse called friendship


Telly Morris
Friday, April 10, 2015 at 00:24HRS

#Empty

In the shallow depths of my soul, darkness falls

Like roots of a tree, I search deep for nourishment

A feeling of being abandoned, like a child on a doorstep

My inner-self has a deficiency

Don't tell the living my feeling
A feeling of being used and discarded, like tissue on a sad day

The need for someone in my life

It feels like a fight I can't win

Hurts to let nothing near

In pain reality is embraced 

Black is my soul, hollow is my heart, cold are my fingertips 

Visions of you are always with me, enveloping me, surrounding me, suffocating me, making me blind from life, as I once knew it

Telly Morris

Friday, January 24, 2014 at 00:16HRS

Tell me why

We are but transient souls in this existence

Throwing away that which was given as a blessing 

That which is not made of stone

Our tears reminding us we have lost our way

Yet we struggle to keep from dying when all is lost

Opting for complexity when love should be simple

The heart doesn’t endure that which makes it sad

Warning signals we ignore as we pray diligently

For that which has no cure

We shape our lives on the tangible things of today

Letting go of adventures which bring so much bliss

Shaping what is our doom to obtain society’s nod of approval

Life should be a dance of happy feet and unending smiles

A rhythm of two kindred spirits soaring above the mundane

Not of plans to fulfil what is expected from us or by us

Telly Morris

Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 22:26HRS

Fix You

I awake, my mind still dazed with sleep

The sight of her in peaceful slumber

warms my heart like she was my creation

Her eyes veiled tight in mystery

Maybe in some wistful dream

or joyful pasts remembered

I'll be gone before the dawn comes

No traces left behind

No way to go back and make this illusion real

I feel her body warm and soft

Her hot breath makes me tense

This moment, i'll remember

The door is gently opened

One more step and I am gone

Things could have been so different

In the words of Cold Play

If you never try

You will never know

With one last look, I close the door

my defenses fall, I cry

" i'll love you till the end," I say. . . 

Telly Morris

Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 09:30HRS