Scary times, as uncertainty abounds with this constant onslaught of our society’s excesses of anger, hatred, and bigotry.

This menacing storm of darkness and fear has run amok amongst us. Yet still, we feverishly fuel our own paranoias with these fires of fear, bigotry and hate.

How effortlessly we let them sweep us up, into the chaotic swells of our own unabridged fears.
We find ourselves doing behaviors we would never do in front of our own mothers or fathers, yet we eagerly join this chorus of darkness denouncing, and hating anyone that looks, acts, or dares to pray differently than us.

And we shamelessly do it with our own children at our sides, And in doing so, we are also condemning them to a future of fear and hate.We excuse these outrageous behaviors, acts of obscenity’s and other dark deeds by our neighbors, our friends, and our own family’s because “they are on our side”

We do all of this because we are simply afraid, afraid of our own self-induced fears. Fears that we never dare look at, we never ever acknowledge them. For if we do, we risk seeing that same darkness in our own souls.

Fear lurks in the dark, hiding in plain sight. It’s growing stronger as we grow weaker. Fear is rotting our souls from the inside out, until it finally overwhelms even the strongest of hearts.
But hear my words brothers, and sister’s, fear isn’t invincible. It has one great weakness. “It can’t exist in the light.” It can’t exist because fear is a just a shadow. One cast in the doubt and darkness that resides in our own minds.

It is nothing but a myth, a phantom, one that can’t exist in the light. And friend, believe me when I say “that the truth is the light”. The truth of our own power over our inner darkness.

These fears are just thoughts of things that could be, rarely are they real. But we will never believe that, no we have to believe they are real. Because if we don’t then we have to ask ourselves, “Who we are?” We have to ask ourselves, are we a faucet that fills others souls. That helps them find fuller and better lives? Or are we that drain, which just siphons off the best of others, simply for our own gluttony?

So, the next time you are feeling racist, bigoted, entitled, superior, or any of the myriad of terrible words that we wrap in pretty sentences, try to consider this little bit of truth. “Where and when you were born” are the biggest factors in what kind of life you will have.
“Be the faucet, not the drain.”

Leslie Hennick
copyright 02/2017 all rights reserved.

Closed eyes

CLOSED EYES

Closed eyes are upon me as I wander thru my dark night.

Seeking, only knowledge, and with it comes my light.

Prying open my own eyes, so tightly clasped together.

Once I cast them upon that light, they will be open “Forever”

Leslie R Hennick

I wrote this sometime in the 1980s while under the influence of something. I can’t remember what, but I’m sure it was probably illegal at the time.

Careful what you wish for

An original song by Les Hennick
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“MY LOVE IS LOST”

I have been crushed, I watched my future disappear,

I am nothing, no warm place left for me,

All things missing, it’s just me and fear.

Black empty stillness, the only thing I see,

My love is lost, my heart no longer thirsts

Once warm blood, now just a frozen icicle,

I was rendered moot, when my heart burst,

Now I lay still as I rot, waiting for my recycle,

My sun is gone forever, only darkness now,

My name a faint shadow lost in distant memories,

Long I have laid, but still in pain somehow,

Feeling my bitter loss, my eternal destiny.

“Brightness of my light”

It took so few moments, to lose the “Brightness of my light”

Yes, took so few moments, to lose the “Brightness of my light”

Now I’m sentenced eternally, to the coldness of my lonely nights, my lonely nights

I am alone, and Im lonely, set adrift, in a sea of despair,

I am alone, and Im lonely, set adrift, in a sea of despair

Voids of emptiness, are surrounding me everywhere, surround me everywhere.

It took so few moments, to lose the “Brightness of my light”

Now I’m sentenced eternally, to the coldness of my lonely nights, my lonely nights

How and what just happened, I’m bewildered, I know not what to say,

I do now know that this pain is forever destined to stay, destined to stay

It took so very few moments, to lose the “Brightness of my light”

It took so very few moments to lose the “Brightness of my light”

Now I’m sentenced eternally, to the coldness of my lonely nights, My lonely nights

So forward I will march daily, each bitter step taken one by one,

Yes forward I will march daily, each bitter step taken, one by one,

Regrets my constant companion, till all my days are done. All my days are done

My Winter Darkness

Winter darkness has now fallen, I have lost my treasured vice.

That little place where I sat quietly,
is now suffocated in ice.

Gone for now, my happy place,
I spent alone with just my thoughts

Reliving past days memories,
and what those moments taught

Many days are yet to pass,
as I yearn for my favorite chair

Cozily peering thru frosted glass, longing thoughts locked in my stare

When will the sun return to warm that frozen air

Melting those iced shackles, and giving me back my favorite chair

“BEYOND THE EDGES OF THE LIGHT”

Beyond the edges of the light,
live the prisoners of the night

Sleeping unknown creatures,
only stirring with the waning light,

Subtle sounds heard moving,
feeding imaginations now unnerved

Creatures with eyes light useless,
only darkness do they serve.

Awake and hunger driven,
eating others that grow tails,

Yes monsters do run rampant,
in that realm where all light fails

“A SINGLE LIT MATCH”

When chaos reigns in our hearts, It dulls even the sharpest of minds,
shredding our confidence apart, like great levees eroded over time.
Failure feels predictable and certain
Catastrophic collapse is on its way
Swearing this your final curtain
And you have reached the end of your days.
Yet outcomes are never preordained,
Something can always change the tide,
Living hearts are never completely drained
So don’t pack it in before the end of your ride.
It takes the faith of just one single thought
And the effort of just one single scratch,
Because even the deepest and darkest of caves are brightened by a single lit match.
Leslie R Hennick copyright 01/2018 all right reserved

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