POEM: Letting Go
On letting go.
Map Of Emotion
Navigating complex emotions of jealousy, ambition, insecurity, joy, fear, peace, anger, happiness, betrayal, contentment, disappointment, love.
Self-Respect
I hate myself today.Didn’t call when I said I wouldBasked in a compliment I knew I didn’t deserveSmiled and fumed internally after I promised I wouldn’t reactHaven’t done oodles of chores that I should have completed months agoStayed in bed when the doorbell rang so someone else would get itBrooded…
Some day…
Some day, I will write a novelSome day, I will get up on time and not be late for a single thing all daySome day, I will smile the whole day and not wince, pout, scowl or frown even onceSome day, I will learn music and be the polished diamond,…
Brand New Way
Village en automne – Henri Le Sidaner I’m starting off a brand new dayTurn the clock to zero honeyYou’ll never know how much I missed you.I’m thinking in a brand new way I’d love to believe there is still goodness left in the worldI’d love to think that the people…
POEM: What It Is Like
What’s courage like?It’s like walking to the very edge of the cliffStraight into the skyAnd not stopping. What’s determination like?It’s like standing completely perpendicular to the groundShoulders back, eyes level with what’s comingTill all motion, even breathing stops…but standing still. What’s toughness like?It’s like feeling heat turn ever so slowly…
POEM: Parallel Monologues
A brooding player, a sensitive charmerA lost butterfly, a moody talker…who is who?One up, one down…who supports who?Both soaring occasionally in brief momentsThat seem snatched from the grasp of realityWhich leaves a pitiful void for what has been and isn’t any more. Where does your pain end and mine begin?Do…
~ A Milestone~
The first day of AugustMore than half the year has gone byI’ve lived a quarter of a centuryAnd what have I to show for it? ~ Ate reluctantly~~ Played badly~~~ Studied resentfully~~~~ Prayed fearfully~~~~~ Slept badly~~~~~~ Worried incessantly~~~~~~~ Thought belligerently~~~~~~~~ Rebelled painfully~~~~~~~~~ Admired secretly~~~~~~~~~~ Touched tentatively~~~~~~~~~~~ Rushed blindly~~~~~~~~~~~~ Believed naively~~~~~~~~~~~~~…
Never Forget
If I could utter just two words for my whole life I would say, “Never forget.” Never forget anything or anyone. Any experience that changes you has already left an inerasable impression on you, which is the cause for the way you are after it has passed. Any person who…
“She used to have a life once”
Eyes ringed with dark circles, lids drooping, dull ache at the back of my neck..and my weekend’s only just beginning. I’ve been having a ‘social life’ in the past two days that I haven’t had for a long time – courtesy a friend who’s here from the city that really…