view2022/4/7 #poetry
My room is too hot. Just ninety seconds inside and sweat drenches clothes. There's no escape, every corner is blasting with heat. The walls radiate it unrelentingly. Downstairs is cool, outside is hot but not unmanageably so, the shade is an escape. My room is fifteen degrees hotter than outside. It is nice when it's cold out. Now, though, it's not really fine at all. Too hot.
view2022/4/4 #poetry
When you are exhausted
and all the world seems washed out
a harsher, emptier place
the little bumps are harder to take.
What would be a problem you would solve
is, here, a chronic annoyance you must bear.
Any resilience that remains is turned inward
the power to wait it out
view2022/4/3 #poetry
Explain but do not direct
Show but do not correct
Offer but do not give
Allow others to live
Find but do not take
Use but do not break
Follow but do not catch
Close but do not latch
view2022/4/2 #poetry
Health in a bottle
You can carry it with you
Swallow some anytime you need
But it doesn't work like that
Health is all you do
Not an external object
Not an additive
Nor a supplement
You have it & you maintain it
Or you've lost it & you build it
By keeping things in balance
By avoiding harm
By choosing health everyday
view2022/4/1 #poetry
Helpful as I might become
I will always need help too
None of us exist apart
Together is how we make it through
Even when I'm on my own
I use the skills that I've been taught
Without the things that I was shown
Succeed in life I just would not
view2022/3/31 #poetry
Deep into a fantasy world
sometimes it's nice to fall
when things are really hectic
I often feel the call
To lose myself in story
to let some fiction eat my time
but leaving my life to imagination
seems like such a crime
but when I am creating, the opposite is true
my own fabricating is very worthwhile to do
view2022/3/30 #poetry
Under a glowing sky
reflected light blocking out the stars
my eyes look for what could be
if we didn't cast our magic across the land
linking wires to every place
spilling our power into the night
not too long ago
when artificial lights were new
the warmth and excitement delighted and comforted
now, not too long since then
darkness unadulterated is what inspires joy
bringing a sense of peace
a languid tranquility
view2022/3/29 #poetry
It isn't your fault. You don't have a clue. If you had the solution then that's what you'd do.
While trying your best may not be enough with a little help it isn't as tough.
You give it your all but if you really knew you'd see that you don't have a way to come through.
The tragedy is watching people finish stuff. That you yourself don't is all kinds of rough.
That time is an issue is very much true. Often it feels as sticky as glue.
view2022/3/28 #poetry
I used to be able to, but over time, I seem to have lost, what I considered mine.
Without my agreement, awareness, or consent, it seems that all my energy was spent.
I still think I can and then when I try, I find I may as well have attempted to fly.
I'll have to accept it, and someday I will, but right now I'm not ready for that bitter pill.
Recognition will come, I'll learn and I'll see, soon I will gain some humility.
view2022/3/27 #poetry
Once you get the basic understanding baked deep into your soul you don't need the accoutrements and gestures of the learning phase. Those are just focus aids and reminders. When you can no longer forget and the way there is too quick and easy for distraction to divert you then those things become unnecessary. They may even hold you back. They will if you aren't careful.