The Weapons of Light: A Warrior’s Guide to Their Spiritual Arsenal

By Lairyck Beliveau

The Weapons of Light is a composition of sixteen interlocking poetic essays, five poems, and three short stories. The purpose of this book is to shed light on the condition and state of the fighting spirit within us all. This book is also a unique inspirational guide that combines poetry, spirituality, and fantasy to maintain the reader’s interest in an atmosphere of both fidelity and mysticism. The book is kept short with the rigors of daily labor in mind for those who like to read but are now unable to find time. The prerogative of any poet is to capture the times as best as they can: the feeling, the atmosphere, and the surge of human emotion. The author, Lairyck Beliveau, utilizes a method of combining poetic license and academic article writing to bring you a very deep and entertaining perspective of life and its emotional struggles.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984574572

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The Shoulders Of Giants

It is far too often in this life that the individual finds themself in a state of feeling powerless. When we consider that the world is often driven by the lesser spirits of greed, vanity, deception, stigma, fear, despair, sorrow, hate, pride, egotism, apathy, and lethargy; I believe we can all relate to the feeling of being overwhelmed by these spirits in our daily lives. Sometimes when we feel so alone we allow these natures into our own thoughts and subsequently allow them to defeat our better conscience. When I’ve witnessed my friends, co-workers and family in these states of emotion with regard to overwhelming adversity, I often find this is when we as people forget our strengths for our fears, for our grief, for any number of possible reasons really.

This was as true of me as any person at certain points in my life. What transpires within the soul is an eternal struggle of both light and darkness. For those who follow the paths of inner light, victories are short lived and obstacles can prove to be ever abundant in the pursuit of a positive spiritual center. I think a lot about human history, namely the wrongs that have been committed. It’s not always so simple to place blame on any group of people.

I guess, in my perspective, I would say that as human beings, we can only be responsible for what we both do, and will not do within our own lives and actions. I was born in this land many years beyond my power to do anything, not by choice, but by the tangled thread of fate. Here I sat being blamed, when to the best of my knowledge, I was the only one who has or was acting, in every way I was able to help my friends. The last thing this man said to me was If I could go back in time, I’d have gathered everyone up to fight them all off. I guess to me at least this seems rather naïve. If he was able to do so, it’s pretty much certain none of us would exist at all. The more we harm and divide ourselves as a species, the less able we are to work together. I’m fairly certain no culture on earth is without some blood on their hands. Sadly, I must admit this may in fact be one of our greater commonalities.

I cannot live in the past because I believe that our future presents a much greater importance. Resentment for things we were neither a part of nor in control of, seems rather counterproductive to the many problems we have at hand. It will not be one pair of hands to hold back the long night to come, but where we reconcile in forgiveness, we are made warriors in our hearts for one another rather than against one another. It is in that place where we find that all men and women have come to stand on common ground which is the reverence and right to life. We may find for once that the will of all humanity is not so easily contested by greed and profit. United we