Why must the balance of joy Be pain so wide and so deep I cannot hold it? Not everyones At least . They must carry some How do I only eat my portion? When if I could solve this mess by taking it all I would. But if I take their pain I may also […]
Something I realised lately Balance looks nothing like we think it does. Balance is not perfection, it’s the opposite of perfection. Balance is seeing ourselves in our entirety All the things we loveAll the things we hateAcknowledging everythingAccepting everythingAnd getting on with making the best of what we’ve been given Balance occurs in nature not […]
Travel takes me to a time and place which doesn’t exist During my everyday existence Living in that space Thinking from that place Giving myself the grace to grow Consider potential instead of limits Picture my life without the regular me in it I expand effortlessly And I can’t shrink back So I must repack […]
Adrift in the seaGraceful ballerinasEffortless jetesElegant pirouettesMesmerisingTranslucentBeautyAbandoned on the beachParched and dryingA child pokes with a stickMy tender heart pities For I have a jelly fish tongueWhen writing it dancesDextrousFlexing with easeBut when I speakI am marooned on the beachParched and dryingI poke it with a stickAlas, it freezes Header Photo: a snap I took […]
The bluer the sky The bluer the sea I dwell in the sliver, in between And I am not blue Not even a bit I drift on the tide Breathing *After my morning spent snorkeling, I sat watching the water change colour in tune with the sun sparking in and out from behind clouds. As […]
My shadow is stitched to my foot All that is black and self defeating All the rot Follows me I could cut it off, but then I would never know where it is hiding It could spring from the trees on a perfect summers evening And ambush my feelings Bring me low A lightening blow […]
It has rained overnight Clouds heavy, Pregnant with raindrops Releasing their burden to gravity Tumbling into the sea below Fresh water colliding with salty Skittering over balconies Curtains drawn We all lay asleep At least I did I have never slept as soundly As I do out here In this enormous cradle Rocking me gently […]
Frowns are habits Our body leans into postures Habits Our face does too I woke this morning feeling poor Anxious Melancholy But it was just my face Conforming to its usual routes and highways I opened my door Stepped outside 7 floors up from the foaming white wake that curls brightly behind this gorgeous ship […]
If I close my eyes, a thousand dots begin to shimmer stretching out from my sides to the front behind If I close my eyes, a thousand lines begin to connect one by one When I look around me I see nothing particularly magical right now.. But when I look within behind it settles in […]
Love people, use things This is the tagline of one of the podcasts which I listen to sometimes, The Minimalists Like many of these phrases, it’s easy on the ear but has mostly slid off Until it stuck, and then sunk in and now it is how I filter things when I want to get […]
