Here within the parameters of me I walk Unable to transform into anyone different At least Overnight Here, with all the experiences which have brought me to who I am Despite discarding as often as I become aware Of self defeating habits and impulses Here, is where all that was has delivered me to Now […]
The text came through just as I lifted my head from the schedule I was working on “have you forgotten something?” Immediately my appointment popped into my head. I checked my watch. Two hours had sped past since I last checked. I was now late. I hastily texted, “on my way!” But she had another […]
I was happy In retrospect Which isn’t actually happiness It’s just an ephemeral memory of a moment that if I had been fully present I could have had my fill And then I wouldn’t be yearning Wasting another precious moment Before it is gone *happiness in retrospect is not true happiness, it is a memory. […]
I cannot stop the sky from raining on you I cannot prevent the sharp edges that close in either I cannot stop the pain of growth, I just have to move back and let it come I cannot prevent the rough patches that scrape the dimples from your cheek Wipe the smile from your eyes […]
Disassociation We run away from ourselves, the situation, the thinking of things that provoke us The more resilient and strong we seem The further away from the true problems we have drifted I had no idea this was where I existed Away from myself had become home and I hung pictures on the wall Lived […]
There are days that fail us We strive to do everything to the best of our ability And still After all that energy Nothing goes right Twenty-four hours in a day Seven days in a week Fifty-two weeks in a year Days do not fail They turn into another and another We just haven’t got […]
Everything that we are exists in the present moment Uncomfortable with our limitations we run Into the bottle The thin white line Of roads or drugs or shopping carts Empty boxes And empty hands Burning Ashes to ashes Dust to dust A life spent outside of ourselves is never enough When a decision is made […]
What relevance is religion in the year of our Lord 2022? Oh my God, what if? What if my God? Two completely different questions, asked from a completely different emotional standpoint One is panicked and frightened , more a rhetorical question then anything The other a gentle query, uttered with steady faith, a peaceful heart, […]
I open my mouth And the world tumbles out I cannot stuff it back in It’s out now, rolling Holding on to the sides of its rounded shape I cling, fingernails rasping I lose my grip It slips Running over me I watch it turn over and over Far below it tumbles onto the sharp […]
Half of my life (if I’m lucky, and I tend to think that with the better health choices I make – the luckier I become) is over. I don’t feel fifty and kind people tell me, I don’t look it either My exterior has changed a little but it’s the interior that has shifted drastically […]
