Beauty surrounds us, we have but to see.The ugly is around us too, sadly. Paradox of life and death is our view. Enigmas form and still we continue. The true human spirit never gives up. It goes on and on until it must stop. I watch the little begging bab...
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I shouldn’t be timid anymore, but every time I could never bring myself to step up and call to attention that this was wrong. I sat by myself at the table this morning. Raven and Fei were still sleeping off the trauma of yesterday’s events. In fact, I was...
Biting into one's soul, turning cheeks red, making them burn as if on fire.Tears form, freezing, not letting your eyes blink.Welding nostrils shut, diminishing your ability to breath, burning throats and lungs as mouth is forced to open, when needing anot...
Surviving the 2012 Doomsday Part 2
An approach to the end of the world.The first expedition… Hank called for a general meeting on the third month to organize an expedition to the north, where M7G8 had told them there was a pile of steel left from the storm. He started by saying: ‘Listen, everybody. We need to expand and conq...
Surviving the 2012 Doomsday, Part 1
An approach to the end of the world.2010…What the hell does he want this 40 meter deep house with magnetic walls for? The contractor thought to himself scratching his head. The man who gave him the contract seemed a normal guy, though a little edgy about the construction. He was not going t...
The Cat's Tale
Let Sleeping Cats LieIt all began with my person reading an article about cats being only semi-domestic, most would readily become feral if the occasion arose. “Ha, a lot they know about cats!” Thus was interrupted my peaceful after-breakfast sunbathing on the window seat in...
Green Jell-O is Magnificent!
The title says it all.There’s nothing that will make my soul more mellow than a luscious bowl of freshly made green Jell-O. It’s smooth and sweet, magnificent to taste. And there’s no crust, which means there is no waste! Thus every molecule will make me smile as I spoon throu...
I was born in a cityWhere there is no love, no unityI was born in a countryWhere disease and hunger bites as if a mosquito was sucking your BloodI was born in a worldWhere my colour means segregationI was born in a landWhere hardship liesWhere power means...
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One in Six
Dealing with my darker demons.One in sixEvery two minutes (not that I keep track)Counting out the time, alarm set on my cell phone to remind me thatFor one hundred and nineteen secondsI am safeThat I can breathe easy knowing that someone else took the bullet for me this timeGuilt and...