Mental Illness
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On Why I Can’t “Church” Right Now
Yesterday I wrote about “rough drafts” – pieces and parts of articles in my inbox that are so emotionally raw to me and likely hurtful to people I love that I fear putting them out into the world.
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777 and counting…
Writing heals me. Writing gets my brain moving in the right direction. I FEEL BETTER when I write.
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Poetic License
But I learned – the very hard way – that if you never consider yourself, eventually you have nothing left with which to care for anyone else.
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“You therefore must be perfect” just like God
“You therefore must be perfect” just like God / It’s there in letters red and hot as blood
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Oh, my muse
Thank you / For saving me.
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With Her In Her Sadness
my friend is sad
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certain somethingness
I feared a sonnet love-filled ne’er could be; / For though I’d felt it, words would not align.
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September, 1986
Matriculation – First day’s class
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stay right where you are and feel nothing.
Satan is silent as he destroys us, / then loudly runs away from us in broad daylight.
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mercury falling
outer cold / exceeds my inner heat; / I never know what shape to take.
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#SOCS – I Met a Mutt on a Mitt, but Not on a Mat. A Bon Mot? I Think Not.
Read the title. Maybe a few times. That’s all I’m doing with the prompt today. I got nuthin’.
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Housewarming – 6:02 pm
I thought no one was going to show. I really did.
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SoCS – Too Much On Your Plate?
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “on your/my plate.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun! Grandma always said if you couldn’t finish your meal, it was because “your eyes were bigger than your stomach”. I never totally understood that when I was 6, but I do now. I also couldn’t…
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Eternity it Stretches Forward.
Now as Lost Days have passed me by, Eternity it stretches Forward.
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The cold steals my Warmth
The cold steals my Warmth
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Tick Tock
I used to prefer the peace / Of the silent sweep / Barely cognizant of the passing of time
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me/Me
mechanically mesmerizing / to be A me you want see…
defying atrophy 