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.
Category: Mental Illness
“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
Oh, my muse
Thank you / For saving me.
With Her In Her Sadness
my friend is sad
certain somethingness
I feared a sonnet love-filled ne’er could be; / For though I’d felt it, words would not align.
list?
out of the head and on to the page…
September, 1986
Matriculation – First day’s class
stay right where you are and feel nothing.
Satan is silent as he destroys us, / then loudly runs away from us in broad daylight.
mercury falling
outer cold / exceeds my inner heat; / I never know what shape to take.
fable flaw?
slow and steady wins
#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’.
Housewarming – 6:02 pm
I thought no one was going to show. I really did.
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! … More
Eternity it Stretches Forward.
Now as Lost Days have passed me by, Eternity it stretches Forward.
The cold steals my Warmth
The cold steals my Warmth
Tick Tock
I used to prefer the peace / Of the silent sweep / Barely cognizant of the passing of time
me/Me
mechanically mesmerizing / to be A me you want see…
Dare we admit that time will ne’er be right?
Dare we admit that time will ne’er be right?
‘Tis 2 AM; we’re far from ending night.
Sonnet XLV – Let Nothing Fill Your Sail
If seeking Something, e’re the hope will fail;
Instead, lie back, let Nothing fill your sail.
Start. again. anew.
start. again. anew.
transformed again by some truth