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 […]
Growth is not measured in the present moment It is always by looking back, seeing the difference Between there and here, that we are able to take a bearing Growth is not linear, it is not lateral It is perhaps more accurately, a series of curves that only a certain spatial awareness gained from standing […]
If sensitive to the less than picturesque ravages of time The grey hairs The wrinkles Outwardly changing Picture instead this The unravelling of all constraints which fear has laid upon you What others might think Or dread at what might happen If.. If you simply be and let all that is tightly buttoned and choking […]
The shadow of who we think we are looms tall and wide It blocks the light of potential that shines inside Every Single Person We have to confront this false thing again and again and again And it’s painful and raw and humbling We tumble through space at a thousand clicks a second Frozen in […]
