Sometimes an hour more of reading does more to restore the soul than an hour less of sleep depletes it. Perhaps a little bit more daydreaming will work wonders for the world we’ll wake up in. Consider that maybe less time spent in reality makes it that much more tolerable. My overworked brain, churning to make sense of the stream of consciousness of anyone in … Continue reading Restful pacing

Take courage. You cannot stop what is already in motion, but you can ride out to meet it. You will not slow the ascent of the sun, but you can prepare for its scorch. You won’t know what challenges a fresh day will bring, but you can ready yourself for a fight. Whether or not you choose to meet it on your feet, it will … Continue reading A single flame in the darkness

The darkness comes too quickly these days. The world escapes my stagnant fingers. The moon drapes her delicate cloak upon the planet while I’m still catching my breath. I’ll simply have to create more light. What other option do I have but to illuminate what I can of my small corner of the world? I’ll just have to write more words that carve a tunnel … Continue reading Little lightmakers

I see the outline in the distance of a shimmering city. Its proximity sets my heart off on a tangent. My weary feet beat at the shifting sands at the idea of shelter. My failing body wills just a little longer into my fickle bones with desperation to rest. But the sands that separate me from this Mecca I’ve been gaining towards are many. Each … Continue reading The splinter and the flea

We all have a choice, every day that we take breath. We can choose to find new homes for our pain in the people we meet, or we can let it fall off our shoulders naturally as we continue forward. And every day that we choose the former is a day when we bestow misery back into the world. The same misfortune that we have … Continue reading The fallacy of fatigue

So focused on the crater I’m standing in, I am constantly looking down. As it rains, the crater fills to my ankles and I yearn for the days when I stood on solid ground. I remember the days, even, when I stood uphill and it washed below, out of my sight. Probably into someone else’s crater. The lip of my crater is too high for … Continue reading A matter of perspective

I don’t know what to say other than thank god for wine that makes us say what our souls have been screaming for years. Thank god for moments that feel like ledges we must leap from. Thank goodness for the good graces of all the people who accept our cowardice. Eventually we’ll all become who we’re meant to be. One day the biggest leaps will … Continue reading Passenger under the stars

A toast of best wishes to the narrow escape of all that is not meant for me. May they find their way to the person whose life they won’t riddle with complications. Chin chin to the moments when it sparkled in my presence before revealing its sharp edges. And here’s to what is waiting for me around the corner, I anticipate you with bated breath.  … Continue reading Tail end of bad tidings

You’ve turned me one note. Suddenly, I only have sad stories to tell. Quiet, wounded cries into the night are all that I utter. I whimper like an offended mongrel. But a skipping record, and I’m the one who keeps returning the needle.  I want to believe what you say. I want to find some parity between your words and your stolen kisses. But your … Continue reading Who are you anyway, and anyway, who am i

I am no one’s keeper and no one is mine. You shall struggle to find a cage that will keep me yet, and I offer none of my own. I have neither the time nor the room to find space for you among the worries and the aspirations that I am endeavoring towards. I will not slow to the pace that your able body concedes. … Continue reading The uncaged bird