So many hardened hollows People who swallow rather than say something they really feel Those who are so bitter in their mouths, the taint hits their conversation as they talk, staining it with faux falsetto Chopping away the smoother curves of even the gentlest words Worlds that spin on personal axis connected to singular problems […]
We all wish we could nail down an outcome the way that we most prefer it would turn out. I don’t like surprises. I’m a planner by nature but life doesn’t care how uncomfortable a lack of predictability makes me. I wondered in yesterdays post, if perhaps this was what 2022 was teaching us. Don’t […]
This floating day, between now and then, and soon to beWith no definitive dateSomewhere past Christmas, yet not quite flipping calendars into a new yearDark clouds and a sodden beachEveryone I pass carries their anxiety in a fragile maskFurtive eyes wonderingfrom hour to hourWhat is coming around the bend They’ve let it loose. Set us […]
Have you ever had that moment where you are thinking about a person or a situation intensely, and then your perspective shifts and the whole floor of your internal conversation just drops away? Your argument is stolen on a puff of wind that exits the mid section, following what feels like a very real blow. […]
Flowers that barely last a day, and wilt in the vase when you pick them Clouds that drift in a clear blue sky, why wish them to be anything different? People that meander from platform to train, don’t bother me with their moods But your thoughts? Turbulent waves pulling me in I drown in salt […]
Worry is a walk through the dry husks of overblown spring flowers Gathering burrs Gathering burrs I look down My socks are full Bristling with prickles that once were pretty Now they cling Biting my ankles And it is easy to think the burrs are the problem And not the surface, the sock the thinking […]
I spent the week-end asking myself questions. There is nothing like concern for someone you love to make you pound the “what if ” keys like a heavy metal rocker… It was certainly noisy in there Desiring peace, I leant on my new incense habit until my hair smelt like a gypsy. Realising that it […]
Belonging It’s not what we think it is Who do we belong to? If not ourselves? Click clack Distract Retract Back into the “real world” Moment blown away We yearn To belong Yet Won’t spend the time needed On The only person we ever can truly belong to Paranoia Anxiety Fear Other Outer Symptomatic of […]
The chewed nail of a problem Tears further ripping into the quick The pain brings me back to remember problems cannot be solved by the same head that created them What the mind mulls over in anxiety produces bile and acid lead on the chest heavy at best and unhelpful. To shift the focus the […]
I wish So much That sometimes we could just take love And paint in the holes Where life is rough on some else’s surface I wish So much That I could step in front Take the brunt But I can’t And anyway It is by being in the firing line We learn that mouths Aren’t […]
