Tag: poetry

setting

Written by Demian Yumei on October 20, 2007 in Conversations on the Journey with 0 Comments

sun setting orange across the horizon my eyes watching lingering on distant light missing you ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ (wrote this for my sister)

9/11

Written by Demian Yumei on September 11, 2007 in Conversations on the Journey with 0 Comments

Until every heart is filled with peace and every life touched with grace, I hold a candle of remembrance for you and for everyone involved in any way. May God send compassion on us all.

Some Nights…

Written by Demian Yumei on September 10, 2007 in Conversations on the Journey with 0 Comments

Just because I like to write songs of hope and inspiration, doesn’t mean that’s how all my days are. Like many people, and like most survivors of abuse, I deal with depression. Not that I just get depressed, but *depression*. Some things occur in my life that can trigger those cavernous feelings of pain, and […]

Why I Believe

Written by Demian Yumei on August 2, 2006 in Conversations on the Journey with 0 Comments

So easy to get discouraged to live in dismay to turn off to run and hide to seek refuge in apathy or fanaticism to succumb to a sense of helplessness and fall into despair. To be so empty to become full our ourselves and nothing else So easy to despair which is why we can’t […]

I Believe

Written by Demian Yumei on February 23, 2006 in Conversations on the Journey with 0 Comments

I believe in the sacredness and intrinsic value of each individual – whether actualized or not. I believe in the sacredness and intrinsic presence of Spirit – whether perceived or not. I believe healing through personal efforts and through spiritual grace is available to all persons regardless of religious beliefs, political persuasions or life choices. […]

A Prayer

Written by Demian Yumei on November 21, 2005 in Conversations on the Journey with 0 Comments

The Flower prays: Dear Lord, please use me to bring beauty into this world. Dear Lord, please use me…

Rights and Responsibilities

Written by Demian Yumei on October 26, 2005 in Conversations on the Journey with 0 Comments

You have The Right to Think your own thoughts, to have your own ideas, to hold your own beliefs – spiritual or otherwise and The Responsibility to Discern the truth, to research and analyze, to question and consider all possibilities, to recognize signs of deceit and manipulation, and take a stand against them in others […]