"None Shall Pass!"

I work in an environment filled with poison.  The very air in certain areas is filled with harmful particles and most surfaces require a washing of the hands after they are touched.

I have learned to keep the contaminants of my environment out of my body. It takes consistent effort and attention to detail, but it is not impossible. 

The mind is the same way.

Do you allow things that are detrimental to your productivity and improvement inside your mind? 

Do they fester inside, eating at your will to succeed and improve?

Be the gatekeeper of your mind, safeguard your thoughts and digest only the things that are conducive to growth and excellence.

Negativity can be all over you, but that doesn't mean it any of it has to be inside.

Time to lock the GATE.

Take a Look

Take A Look

Adam Bogle 2012

You won't come around and its all my fault

You wont speak a word, but it's me that wont talk

Your message in a bottle brings your absolution

To call it one sided hate is your resolution.

Outsiders get to know more than I do

The eggshells you walk on were placed there by you

Despising my honesty resenting my truth

Never stopping to think I might be reaching for you

Each day I face my past, my demons, my hell

I live with the stories they continue to tell

That is my price, my penalty, my debt

To live each day with the cost of regret.

This road is quiet except for the screams

Of how I'm nothing and nothing is me

But I choose not to hear them and choose to be free

I'm becoming the man I was created to be.

The Work that I do is transforming I find

My Work gets done and does its Work in my mind

It tells me there's more to me than the limits you see

It grants freedom from the past and what I USED to be.

So I continue on, to do my work all alone

No mask to hide the man that's now gone

No lies to myself of what used to be

No acceptance of the limits you choose for me.

Evolving my soul into destiny's role

Chosen to be greater than your rejection holds

My mind set like a stone planted firmly it grows

Against all resistance it continues to flow.

So when your thoughts move to me and the images you see

Of the shell of a man that I used to be

Hold onto the thought that I'm somehow caught

Or open new eyes to see a free man that is me.

Lovin' You Down

 

Lovin' You Down

  Adam Bogle

2011 TRP Music Group

(All Rights Reserved)

I

Well I'm prisoner at work

And I'm a slave to the grind

But I can't do a thing 

Without you on my mind

Every moment of my day

Spent thinking of you

And the love that we make

Is what gets me through

C

Oh baby, how I'd love to be lovin' you down

To hear your eyes say how you love me 

When your lips don't make a sound

To spend the whole night baby

In the love that we've found

Oh how I'd love to be lovin'

Lovin' you down

II

Time away is living torture

Seconds seem to me like days

The aching for your arms to hold me

Your tender kiss is what I taste

The need to feel your love surround me

To enter through love's open door

It's with your hand you'll gently guide me

Always hungering for more

C

Oh baby, how I'd love to be lovin' you down

To hear your eyes say how you love me 

When your lips don't make a sound

To spend the whole night baby

In the love that we've found

Oh how I'd love to be lovin'

Lovin' you down

B

And we'll fall together softly

Not worried where we might land

Let tomorrow have tomorrow

Cause tonight I'll hold your hand

These Hands

These hands know you

They have memorized every contour of your body

The textures of your clothes and the silkiness of what lies beneath

  They communicate between us

Telling you of my loving desire

And hearing your message of eager acceptance in return

Through your movements underneath their touch

They hold memories of times we've shared

Wiping tears from your eyes 

Moving the hair from your face

  They have been beaten beyond their years through hard work

 But manage to make beautiful music when the heart commands

  And their greatest symphony is You

The Company of Thoughts

Eyes open before the dawn

Lying in the darkened room

My breath is the day's first sound 

And my first thought is the thought of you.

Words glowing in my mind's eye

No audible notes fall on my ear

Not necessary to reinforce their strength

Your voice is the sound I hear.

Morning's anticipation dispels daily routine

Awaiting heart's contact through space

Closure of the eyes brings sights more real

The sight of my hand on your face.

Day's end arrives and eagerness drives

My whole being back to the space

It's there once again I'm there with my friend

We're at home in this limitless space.

Eyes overwhelmed with such beauty

Surprised you're real yet again

Torn between rushing to hold you 

And thirsting to drink it all in.

Eyes open before the dawn

Lying in a darkened room

My breath is the day's last sound 

And my last thought is the thought of you.

The Best Christmas

We all have a Christmas that stands out as "the best".

Maybe it's one from your childhood. One spent at the Grandparent's house, all the relatives and all the good food. Maybe the one where you got the one thing you'd been waiting for all year long (a lifetime to a child).  Maybe the last one spent with someone who has passed on, yet lives on in memories locked in your mind.  Maybe your child's first Christmas, or the first one where they actually knew what was going on. 

For me, today is the best Christmas.

It is still quiet in the house, the only sounds are the clicking of they keys as I type and a snoring Pug.

But it's the first year that I have recognized the ability to go anywhere I want and spend the day with anyone I want using the power of remembrance, the power of my mind. 

I can return to childhood, living in the past and remembering the faces and voices of ones no longer with us. 

I can return to places in my mind that are especially powerful, with the ones who gave them such power.

I can spend my day however I choose, with whoever I choose and in whatever way I choose.

After all, it isn't about where we are that makes the day special, but rather the ones who change our lives for the better that make memories we cherish.

Time is of no consequence, distance becomes only a word.

I can choose to wish today away or I can make it my own!

It is truly a very Merry Christmas.

Perfect Vision

I close my eyes 

To see your face

Its in my mind 

Our private place

I cover my ears 

To hear your voice

The notes so softly

Become my choice

I touch my hand

To feel the place 

My fingers touched

Against your face

The chambered hallways

Of my mind

Labyrinthian corridors

Hides our hidden time

Reaching solitudes place

Locked in warm embrace

Stealing moments

Before life...

...Takes place