One day to the next Weather changing Sometimes varying enormously Emotions Veering from bright To gloomy A flurry of worry setting in One day to the next Can feel like travelling a lifetime away Only to return To a different array of feelings thoughts No two moments are the same And neither am I We […]
Sitting in the seat of the drunk the maudlin the pitiful fool the jester the heartbreaker the family jewel the business man juggling his takeaway coffee the grandmother enroute to see her family The busy the tired the fraught the lonely the peaceful the calm the distracted the lonely I wonder who sat down here […]
It is a wild thing writhing when caught in another’s hand squeezed release it back to me please. Others carve slices ripped torn worn down returned recycled still it beats on largely ignored until sirens are called. Muffled oppression ongoing obsessions that which grieves trailing thickly white they point to it on the screen blocked […]
When the weight of the world is too heavy Or my mind is full to the brim When the people I love are fighting for a smile, their eyes sad, shoulders stooped. When all around me seems troubled And it seeps down into my soul wakes me in the middle of the night I tip […]
This moment while the frogs sing And the magpie sleepily warbles This moment As I drink bitter coffee in the time before the sun This moment is full of grace and beauty and I am grateful We have no idea what is coming towards us on the path It could be bad news It could […]
Inside everybody is a monster and the monster whispers that it is everybody but actually it’s a nobody nothing of substance except a blackened strip of velcro to which every negative word and memory clings like lint Everybody isn’t out there It’s in here And when it stands up it becomes nothing but a curtain […]
How to leave Quickly Eyes forward Keep them on the road Do not think of what is behind Only what is ahead And stay thinking that way Until we can come back again *It grows more difficult. As this post publishes this morning I’m back into the daily grind of life. Still, the brackets of […]
My life is full of metaphors parables meaning. Perhaps that is just the way I see it. Believing. But how we see it Us Them Is really all there is And I am deeply in love with this feeling. When I’m on the coast I go ocean swimming and if there was ever a metaphor […]
Sometimes when my heart is sad And my body is tired When all the melancholy lands With its very weighty presence On my shoulders I fall into a chair and sigh I smile On purpose. At first it is gentle difficult to do but with determination I sit with all of the hard things And […]
It rises like smoke This thought And it chokes me Like smoke And I don’t even smoke Anymore But I do think A lot And that’s the same thing Or so it would seem *I’ve recently realised that thinking is an addiction. One that we scarcely know we have. The habits ingrained from a lifetime […]
