It’s all in our head The thought terrifies me I am not qualified to build a world Least of all my own Memory is such a scant and fleeting thing Reality Ephemeral and obtuse Based on whatever mood we allow to rule us Learning is filtered Coloured by our thoughts about what we are thinking […]
Where molecules become air I will meet you there Amidst the transformation that occurs Innocent of our observation Crinkles of a smile Appear at the corner of your eyes And I sigh Tension passing Dawn unfurling from night Begins with colour Streaking But first we lose the stars We could mourn their passing Or be […]
Looking up, I become a blade of grass Let the sky Catch all the small human things And render them meaningless Just as they are
I was not depressed I was exhausted And furious I was not depressed I was ineffably sad and defeated I was not depressed I was lacking in vitality and direction I was not depressed I was grasping for answers into my own mortality and reason for being I was not depressed I was deeply fearful […]
What is single What is pair And lonely? It’s always there for those that are at war within themselves We think that we need a partner to walk this world Not true You can have many hands to hold But until you can hold your own You will continue to feel alone *I’ve been thinking […]
We disappear into screens Into day dreams And still the distraction knocks Mocks plans we make Puts life stories at stake Because we can never become Who we are While disappearing into everything That we are not *being present is a choice that we get to make, but what we are present with, isn’t always […]
We are all capable of self destructing Allowing the dark To usurp the light that burns within A single thought leading to another And another The perpetual dripping tap Releases from above Gravity grasping as it falls toward the ground Absorbing sound But there is a moment before the splash is heard In that moment […]
How do you name something formless? That lies beneath the metaphysical skin of a mythical creature constructed by air strokes with an invisible paintbrush Try And you may come close to where my thoughts go at the moment Was it a shadow rippling across the field in the last shaft of sunlight before the onset […]
Wrote about this on Instagram this morning. A monk on a mountain will never learn as much about radical compassion and acceptance of others and self, as a person who is married and has children and extended family. The people who love us and who we love (and who annoy us at times) are our […]
In meditation We learn compassion Patience We learn to sit Commit No matter what thoughts cross our mind Back and forth Jumping in We let them do what thinking is Because that is the brain and how it acts Nobody would tell a heart to stop beating So we can’t stop thinking thoughts Only We […]
