It’s not so hard to live faithfully to your compass. It is ourselves who have gotten lost. The trees around us started to look familiar, the way still hadn’t cleared and we had walked so far. We began to think we were being lied to. We should be there by now. We abandoned the blind faith we had come armed with and chose to decipher … Continue reading A chink in the armor

To new worlds and undiscovered country. I like where it leads and what it promises. Supple seeds planted in new soil. Suns that don’t blister rising over virgin horizons. I enter them brand new with only good intentions. Shed of my fear-based self doubts like a molted bird, with yet unbroken wings. The opportunity of such untilled earth is not lost on me, I feel … Continue reading A terraformed life

Time is what it undeniably is without concern for your definition of it. Enviably genuine to its cause and nature without regard for what we will it to be. One linear existence that stretches on more reliably than anything else in the universe. It doesn’t care if it’s your birthday, or the first day of the year. It’s not bothered by your intentions or your … Continue reading What is given

Perhaps every person is a rose. Beautiful, full, capable of great levels of seduction. But we all have our thorns. We’ll all prick when held just the right way. Perhaps it’s not a failing but an inevitability. We fawn over the way others let their petals droop. We wish we were as effortless or graceful as they. We wonder if their thorns are smaller, less … Continue reading The injustice of heart

You can approach a green light and there can still be traffic. Sometimes it takes a minute for things to get going even if your path shines green. You could have the go ahead for miles and you could still move at a glacial pace. It doesn’t mean you’re not going somewhere, it doesn’t mean you won’t get there, be patient with the flow of … Continue reading The green light

An orb will always be an orb, and no matter how hard you try, you’ll never flatten it out. Craters will always be valleys, they will never rise to plateaus. Some things are as certain as the sun setting in the west and a monsoon season in summer. You can tamper all you’d like, but what will be will find a way, in spite. So … Continue reading All the queen’s roses

Perhaps we only experience a moment once, but we live it many times. The surreal feeling that what I’m seeing through my eyes right now I will watch again at some indeterminate point in the future. Eerie and wonderful and heart wrenching. To be tucked in tightly to the normalcy of this moment and yet feel a far gone nostalgia that is not entirely mine, … Continue reading unoriginal moments

So many people it takes to make a person. One to grow it, two for its makeup. But a lifetime of active contributors will follow. They foster us, guide us, and give up pieces of themselves. In the end, what a person becomes far exceeds what two people designed. We are a patchwork of all the people around us who save our skin by grafting … Continue reading The makeup of man

I’ve come to believe that there is no fracturing happiness. Moments of tragedy aren’t a collection of fissures that shatter an unbroken plane of contentment. If happiness is a line, it’s a crooked one. It bends and warps around knots and nicks in the surface of our lives. It doesn’t end, it’s never disrupted, only redirected. A comet came and it killed the dinosaurs. But … Continue reading Redirected energy

Your gilded mask wears heavy on your face, but you’re careful not to let it slip. Your predatory eyes peer through and they stir the unease in my belly. When the light shines just right, I see the scar tissue that festers beneath. One lashing look at the turmoil that requires your covering. You’re careful how you waltz along the shadows, you know how to … Continue reading The truth is but a bitter wine