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Glass Half Full

Who I want to and try to be.

The sound of a Canary finch's song.Watching clouds cross the heavens.Simple things, that keep me strong. A glass half full, not half empty.Is what I always try to see.Blessings, life rewards a plenty. The call of a Raven, is not evil.Sweet music, to calm...

Here I Stand

Sometimes you have to save yourself...

Words slice like a double-edged knife; my heart cannot endure So watch me bleed, tainted blood pouring from my soul I tried to save you, but it was all in vain You cut me down, to ease your own pain  Now here I stand, wounded, broken and alone… Here I sta...

Connections

How an online meeting can grow

Is it a phenomena of our time,this so called meeting online? Meeting out in virtual space.Touching each with embrace. Souls have a way of connecting. Without ones heart expecting. Hearts make connections real.Sentiments are hard to conceal. Often ones min...

From Sisyphus: Darkness

Sisyphus speaking to the stars about his plight in darkness

Tonight I cannot see the stars or moon.Clouds have taken from my view all light. I cannot see my hands or feet but know that they exist.This Stone is here against my chest but nothing else is known. I am invisible. All is gone, except my voiceasking who i...

From Sisyphus: Tears

Sisyphus speaking to the stars about his plight

Tears are words I cannot speak.They come from deep inside this acheand say what I can’t say.Sometimes I wish they would not comeinto the corner of my eye,then roll along my noseand touch my lips.I wish my tongue would never taste againthe liquid from that...

From Sisyphus: Suicide

Sisyphus speaking to the stars about his plight

If I let go this rock would crush my bones and end this punishment. The gods who put me here think they have control but do not know that they have none. I keep this stone alive and make it more than stone. I shove and keep up this momentum to know anothe...

for L Life has been unkind - yet you still standthrough unimaginable griefthrough shattered livesthrough a plague on your blood. through a mind being lost. You still stood with the unyielding weight on your shoulders alone. Then, unsurprisingly, your love...

A Woman's Worth

In celebration of woman's month... dedicated to the women of the world

I did not fall from the sky Like night falls softly upon a hopeful land, Filling it with a taut darkness. Nor did I descend like a storm, Crashing with untamed rectitude Onto a land lost to its own desires.I did not blow in on a temperate breeze; Blowing...

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I miss you.You left, with almost no reasons and no explanations, and expected my life to revolve as it once did. The pain was expected, as was the emptiness.It would almost have made sense, and almost felt right,Except…This wasn’t supposed to end like thi...