Current mood: 
depressed
The Freedom To Be Me
(A Poem-Prose written by Martin Eden on 12 & 14 February 2010)
I cried to know
The suppression of spirit
From those closer and made close
It was tiredness I know
That brought it to the fore
Yet it is always there
I may come to know that love someday
That nurtures me through to being me
… And it’ll be me, a cornerstone
© Martin Eden
Current mood: 1<3 ME <|;^))
Undulation
(A Poem-Prose written by Martin Eden on 2 February 2010)
* The knowledge of something, anything.
You can walk in the steps of the devastated and emerge on their behalf
You can need the people who will let you down for a little while
You can bide your time before a fond farewell
And talk to the birds and treat all that is around you well
But there is that pain you must know which is passing
To recognize it as your path etched in time
The place you hold in others often to do with your dreams
And the times you feel every beat of your heart and every breath you take
It’s forever the dawn which you know well
The inner drive which comes to fruition
And in it all the seed re-seeds and learns a little more
And knows of warmth in among the journey
It is then the soul must rest to know its whole
And in the relentless march of that same whole
There is turmoil and strife and positivism
And the distraction of faith and hope and sometime charity
For they are after all often the tools of exploiters
But in the end one must walk alone
Hopefully in one’s path of enlightenment
Toward the steady knowledge of extremes
Among the vastness of reconciliation where often a chill wind blows
© Martin Eden