Tribes

We all have our own

Many sizes shapes and colors

My tribe is mine… my story builders

Reflections of my life.

Keepers of my lessons, morals and memories.

Sometimes tribes intertwine

Building bigger the tribes from which one came

Generation upon generation

But to all…the tribes are the same.

The ones who made the first memories

Captured the best moments of our youth

Wove use into who we would one day turn into.

Not all tribes are great, and from some

Members gladly walk away

But when the tribe is strong and solid

Distance can never fade the bonds

For a solid tribe will always be filled with

Loved Ones. 

Embrace each tribal moment

For one day it will be only there to reflect upon

Members move, members pass, life continues on. 

The whole world is filled with so many,

Each one living in their own world

Their own space, doing their own things

On any given day… the events that effect one

Most likely will not matter to another…. 

Embrace who you’ve been given, 

solitude isn’t that much better. 

@s.vanderbilt 7.13.2022

#tribe #familybonds #family

The Essence of Intuition

Never really knew, 

Just knew within

Always that silent simple feeling
So difficult to explain

Forever the feeling of being

Misunderstood 

Yet, struggled to explain 

My guiding force… something unseen. 

Placed into a situation

Where now it’s challenged

A proof required to make it true

How do you prove what has always

Just FELT wrong or right to you? 

Intuition; by definition “is the ability

To understand something without the

Need for conscious reasoning”

So then, why do the conscious thinkers

Struggle so much to accept that 

Intuition is real, intuition exists. 

It’s the gut feeling,

The unexplained essence of knowing

Knowing something’s not right or

Something wonderful is about to unfold.

For the intuitive person

It’s the driving force that guides

Guides the soul, the mind. 

Gives power to embrace

The Very essence of everything in life. 

And for those conscious thinkers… 

It will remain the unexplainable 

Essence of life that others live by. 

@s.vanderbilt 7.13.2022

#intuition 

Alibi

The mind. 

Such a beautiful and intricate creation.

When the heart and soul lie,
the mind is the biggest Alibi.

Yet, the thoughts and ideas that flood this space,
create also the vacancy.

As pieces lie scattered..

in tidbits all over, leaving only a trace.

These were created by

your Own hands, your Own words...

by You.

Where did the strength come from?
How was it that lies turned into lifes own song?

As secrets were being created..

So swiftly and delicately woven with sweetness.

Undermining the very beating of the heart.

The soul was the only connection to the thoughts of truth.

That should have been there from the start.

The soul was then...

Creating the Alibi

Or was it the Mind? 

The mind, that was overseeing the heart and souls 

Lie. 

For the mind has been the Alibi for so many of those, 

Carved, woven... enthralled into the very essence of being. 

And when the days are no longer numbered

and the heart fails to beat,

The mind stops it's thoughts... and the soul is set free. 

What Alibi will there be for the Lies? 

@s.vanderbilt

7-9-2022