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 […]
“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 […]
