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 […]
I don’t know if you’ve noticed I write a lot I post most days But I have a lot more to chat about Plenty of other topics Some of you might like to hear a bit more and I just discovered my email list on here I have five subscribers! I don’t want to hit […]
A word After a word After a word With each adding depth to the meaning Of the one which came before it As few as possible Not necessarily beautiful But true That is how things should be written Not The magnificence of the omnipresent moment adds splendid divulgence to the optical illusion that we are […]
Fear Paralysing Heat rushing Heart sinking Shame Shame Shame The fear of failing being seen as lame lame lame I’ve had all these fears All these moments Again and Again and again And I’m still alive There is a second sometimes when I post something Where I literally have to walk through a brick wall […]
Last week, my head was different Last week, some things mattered more than others And the things that mattered then Have been reduced to nothing this week I see now This week, the things that matter Will not be the same as the next Nor the one after Or the one after that And whilst […]
The difference between what you believe in And what you do Is the place where discomfort arises And festers Becoming full blown anxiety if you don’t close the gap And come into alignment *When anxiety arises I know that living in-authentically is one of the major causes with me. Sometimes we are pulled off tangent […]
