Worry is a kind of prayer Or so I’ve come to realise I thought it was a lack of faith And perhaps it is, if it’s not directed anywhere My worry has always been directed to God And I believe it has always found its mark Because there is very little that I have worried […]
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, because I’ve been worrying about different family members on loop. Why do we worry about those that we love? Is it love? Or is it because we fear that if something happens to them, it will hurt us? Is worry about those we love then at least […]
The world tilts up The world tilts down The world spins, taking me with it and how could I ever think I could make everything still even for a minute When the clock keeps ticking *Our body chemistry controls so much of what and how we think. I was reminded of this last night, when […]
Anxiety is the process whereby I make myself large and the world by contrast, becomes small The cure is Shrinking ourselves, and naturally rising to a different level of perspective The walls recede, I can breathe And the view becomes expansive The screams of the ego become muffled by the weight of the world I […]
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 […]
