“Well I just don’t feel that strongly It’s so messy I don’t understand why you are so passionate“ And the cold fish backs away hastily A look of horror on their face Tears for a sunset Are out of place Depth is so deep And shallow so much safer And their mind has never been […]
Sunrise golden beamsThrough dark wood blindsPatterns against the wallGoldenDarknessGoldenDarknessGoldenDarknessStripes that envelope my handMy shoulderMy torsoMy legsWithGoldenDarknessGoldenDarknessGoldenDarknessI am a striped beingOf golden and darknessAnd I take these patterns with meInto the world This was Day 7 of the dirtythirty challenge on Facebook. I liked it so have included it here for those that aren’t partaking in […]
Sometimes I feel like I’m speaking a different language One that is connected to my heart And not to the world around me I swallow, feel my tongue where it runs down the back of my throat It doesn’t stop there Fastened down hard like other tongues Instead it unravels like a rope into the […]
It’s amazing how much a mind can stuff up a life Luckily, some people are sign posts Some places are fuel stations And the heart is a compass that doesn’t need Google As long as we pay attention If pain is expensive Denial is exorbitant And in seeking to distract ourselves, we could very well […]
Who loves you when you forget to love yourself? Who whispers into your ear “hey, take it easy?” just when you need it Who is the support that you can lean on, when your stomach has butterflies, you’re nervous, doubting yourself, thinking “can I do this thing that I have set myself?” Who replies fervently […]
If I paint by numbers I am assured of a certain picture The outline is the same as the image on the box and all I have to do is simply choose colours one by one Mechanically completing a version that someone else created And I can say I painted Well done! Faithfully following the […]
Another memory folds itself into my body Tucked away in a file for another day, hidden from my view I am an origami human Twisted and creased Forming shapes invisible to the eye They lie Deep beneath my skin And even when I take out all of these things -flatten them out straight with thoughtful […]
Today I really triedFor the first time in awhileAnd I now realiseHow easy and comfortable my stride has becomeHow quickly slip the words from my tongue“That’ll do”And out of that realisation grew a profound regret at how often I have snuffled my own potential.As effortless as blowing out a candle.I am suddenly very, very hungry […]
Still and stagnant water sits in a pond Open to the hot sun, it’s surface shrinks a little more every day It is dependent on the mercy of rain I wonder if consciousness is alive in its shallow depths? Still and brown Modelled in the shape of a brow, wrinkled in annoyance by the bugs […]
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 […]
