THE EMBERS REMAIN

By  Charles Robert Lindholm 

The Flames Of Hell
In My Life No Longer
Exist
Or
Reach For The Sky
With Billowing Smoke
Blocking The Light
From The Sun 

OLD MEMORIES STILL BURNING

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Some Old Memories
Burn
But Will Never Go Out

Like The Fires Of Hell,
Endlessly Burning
In Your Soul,

Battles

They say it’s wise

to pick your battles,

to avoid the conflict

and preserve the peace.

But what of honesty, what of pride

can be preserved in the face of opposition?

There is something to be said in pride –

there is a pride in being honest with the world,

with one’s self.

One cannot sleep in a bed with

dishonesty between the sheets.