If I were watering the cement, with blood From a head wound, I wouldn’t want someone to hand me a SpongeBob band-aid, I wouldn’t want someone to try to help, By beating the pain out of me. I would want to get staples or stitches, From a passionate professional. After my wound healed, Or atContinue reading “Mental Health Court”
Tag Archives: Compassion
Outside Ourselves
It’s hard to picture The girl in the picture In the mirror. It’s funny when she saw the world She saw a challenge, Where I see an obstacle course. Overcome the challenge, Survive the obstacles. All the difference. Different approach, Different voice, Different attack- The difference between Faith And hope. The chasm of one step.Continue reading “Outside Ourselves”
Humanize
Hedging people into small rooms. Unable to move Masters of “forgetting” of those outside of our own home And still the forgotten remember how to smile Never getting bitter In the face of torture. Zeal for life never crushed Everything we have been told should be challenged
Family Realism
The idea that I must love Those whose blood I share Makes me roll my eyes. Family can be deadly just as easily As it can be loving. All too often spirits are decapitated With families choosing to Bury the dead under the title, “FAMILY” If a body doesn’t fall in step, It’s all tooContinue reading “Family Realism”
Good Bitter
The perfect roasted brown, Deep and smooth. Bitter has a negative connotation, But every morning This cup makes me question why. Perhaps it is the bitter man is a different beast, Or perhaps, the world gives up on the bitter too soon, Like a child having sipped from my glorious velvet bitter, And thinking, afterContinue reading “Good Bitter”
Everyone Says, And Few Attempt
Everyone says “You can only control your actions and reactions.” but not how much work that takes. It means making choices, in the middle of a trillion little moments… okay, maybe a thousand, to challenge you’re own interpretation, Each reason for why, even the ones we don’t like because the other person, is different, notContinue reading “Everyone Says, And Few Attempt”
Lost Thoughts
I am a heavy thinker; I am a “Dig my own rabbit hole,” thinker. I am proud, because I often find golden ideas and crystal clarity. but, there are times, when the “Rabbit hole” I’m digging becomes a grave and all it takes is a few nearby footfalls to bury me, in ideas I’d alreadyContinue reading “Lost Thoughts”
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