Collaboration
Writer: Juan Carlos Cruz and Photographer: Carolyn E. Ford
I woke up this morning more tired then when I fell asleep
I sleep at night only so my inner demons don’t hear me weep
I’m lost in this reality I created on my own
I’m lost in this world and I’m not alone
I’ve decided to bare this cross by myself
I’ve chosen to atone for the sins of my loved ones alone
I give all I can yet its still not enough
I’ve given up but still act tough
What I’d give to run away
This life I live so fast but at this rate I’m afraid I’ll crash
I’m on the brink of destruction
Yet nowhere near absolution
On the cusp of greatness
Yet my mind is full of restlessness
I could achieve my dreams
I’ve spent my life swimming upstream
Still I feel alone even though my face is readily known
In the end a thousand names known and all the fame in the world is worthless if my heart turns to stone.
~~Juan Carlos Cruz
From the perch of Ravynhed
Regrets
Once again
Ritual cleansing
Painful reminders
Promises broken
Vows ignored
Scars emerged
Soul dirtied
Mind fragmented
Heart ashes
Dreams tattered
Faith crushed
Painful reminders
Ritual cleansing
Once again
~~Ravyn
Collaboration
Photographer: Joe Neely and Writer: Carolyn E. Ford as Ravyn
Dark One
As your mighty hoofbeats approach me like a reverberating boom from a cannon, I long to be riding bareback upon you, Dark One. Let the night wind whisper to me magically and with its weaving witchery soothe the scorching stabbing sorrow inside my soul.
O Dark One, let me hold on to your masterful mane and fly with you amongst the sageful yet sympathetic stars. Wing me ever closer to your eternal sanctuary where, my sadness could be startled in silent song.
I feel your majestic muscles murmuring their might. From there I find sustenance to greet life oncemore. Underneath your shadowy wings, I will softly sleep.
Fly Dark One, Fly on.
~~Ravyn
Guest Photographer–David Fisher
Guest Contributor: Jodi Mayer Huffman
My life’s journey has taken me down a road I could’ve never expected to travel. But it is becoming the most beautiful, loving, fantastic, unexpected twist of my life.
If you’re lucky enough to meet a person who honest to God completes you, embrace them no matter what! Make it work!
I never even thought I was capable of this love that I feel, and now I don’t even know what I would do without it..
A great love is a great love, even if it looks unfamiliar to you at first. Never let it go, and never live with regret just because of change!
See it, feel it, live it! Realize that you have been blessed!!!
Dawn Patterson and Jodi Mayer Huffman
Collaboration
Send in the clowns for when the chaos reign supreme in the merry-go-round that we call life. Walk on the crazy and side of life to celebrate the quiet joy within
~~Carolyn E. Ford.
Kelly Robitaille (photographer) and Carolyn E. Ford (writer).
Work of Kelly Robitaille can be found here.
Collaboration
Collaboration: Frank Lopez (writer) and Carolyn E. Ford (photographer)
If our actual beliefs are those quiet assumptions upon which we act, then why should it be necessary to try to put our faith into words at all? Why is it not enough to live simply our lives and let both our work/play and ordinary conversation be the expression of our faith?
~~Frank Lopez
Embers of Resiliency 