I watched you watching it Standing still mesmerised. Feet anchored deeply mired in sand that disappeared sliding through your toes Perfectly still Perfectly calm You stood like a candle Without melting And then finally, with a graceful turn Bending To build a sandcastle With the same gentle intensity I wondered who your parents were You […]
The freedom to think naturally Move easily To let emotions come and go Without being trapped in their snare nor beguiled by thoughts and cravings. To let others simply be and it all occur. Held by the structure that Is self designed installed and embraced daily. I don’t even have to think about it anymore […]
I wish I had never developed this thing Now it’s grown so big It is difficult to get rid of I wish when it first entered my heart At the very start I had the wisdom back then to drop it I’ve been feeding it now For twenty-five years It’s heavy It’s big And it […]
Who do you see when you look at me? I don’t think you know We filter so much of who we think people to be I wonder how anyone could change at all How sad to be trapped in another persons mind If that’s who you think you are And haven’t looked to find yourself […]
The truth is not the thing we think it is It moves, changes, morphs, transcends It is fluent, and it depends On only the deepest held feeling As to how it emerges and when In an argument it may stay hidden and never come about Our task therefore is to tickle it out Out of […]
Childhood Homes It is as it always was Though different Ceilings lower Paint worn And the steps of the staircase I once walked Seem narrower Darker I don’t quite trust that creak beneath my feet It all feels very fragile Or is that me? Where once I ran without thought Rooms echoing to the sound […]
To hold the hand flat on a searing surface Would be unthinkable Unbearable Psychical pain Physical pain Are equal They both light up the same area of the brain To hold a thought, a memory, of great pain unflinchingly Is as meaningful as taking a knife to our own jugular Yet we do it Constantly […]
Life sits like an unopened present An invisible box that I daily circumnavigate Never opening Never revealing I give it a little shake sometimes Wonder what’s inside Yet like the celebratory treat a loved one has hidden, kept in store for me I’m never quite sure what to make of it – or some days […]
What we aim for, we may achieve Or perhaps not The point is to strive I have had many things which I have tried and failed And many instances where I did not try hard enough And failed The difference to the level of my disappointment was equal to the amount of striving which I […]
It is a gift to let go of things you know are no longer yours to hold Clutch And cling to Things that burn your fingers, trouble the mind Those that unspool and rewind, repeating over and over It is a blessing to be able to stand clear of the small pile of unnecessary thoughts, […]
