Is an exercise in futility.Looking for the futureIn particles of dustThat have no point of departureAnd no real destination.To watch the windIs to ignore your own convictionsPostpone your own leap of faithAnd nullify your own intuitionIn hopes that something out thereWill tell you when it’s your turn.We have never really been good at predictionAnd maybe […]
Read more "Wind watching"Is excruciatingDisorientingUnwanted.The counter intuitive pathTo a life worth living.Who knew that all we ever wantedWould come through so much pain?
Read more "The death of this flesh"Every path is narrowEvery sentence hurts to be saidEvery smile is forcedMy feet tread on eggshellsMy chest falls in sighsMy tears on tap.Every step feels like fallingBecause these steps are not my own.I’m counting on His words being trueOn this cross being worth itOn the reward being realAnd on Hands being there to catch meWhen […]
Read more "Every step feels like falling"It will not stop the freight train of lifeFrom chugging through your neighborhoodAnd taking you on a journeyYou may never quite understandExcept in retrospect..Most of reality will always remainOutside of your controlNo matter how hard you wish otherwise,And it might take you a whileTo accept this.Despite how strangely comfortingIt may feel to worry about the […]
Read more "Anxiety is not a seat-belt"Is being writtenAnd you are not the oneHolding the pen-Will you trust the AuthorTo craft the best strokesFor the chapter you’re living in?
Read more "The perfect story"Pessimism is too costly.Worst case scenario projectingIs really never worth it.We are negative to our own perilDoubtful to our own destructionWe gain little from smallmindnessAnd victimhood earns us peanuts.Wake up!You are not obligatedTo that downward spiral. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?Hope in God; for I […]
Read more "Fighting for atmostphere"He was right thereWhen my feet swept the streets in the darkness.He sat with meWhen no one else would.When I was overlookedHe gazed upon me with intent.When I lost all my friendsHe called me by name.When I was deeply misunderstoodHe saw me.When I felt alone in the crowdHe singled me out for Himself.Distant lands and […]
Read more "I have never walked alone"We acknowledge the factsWe too can see how dire things are.We too can feel the hairs standing on our armsThe stone forming in the bellyThe flashes of fear in the mind’s eye.We too don’t know what tomorrow holds.We too are scared.But we do knowThat the paths fear leads us downAre not spaciousThat plodding along in […]
Read more "Rising faith"How else do you fight the thoughtsOf your life being ‘not enough’?When your mind fixatesOn the things you do not haveAnd magnifies your sense of inadequacyIt turns you in on yourselfSpurring you to spend your daysPlaying catch-up to no end.Counting your blessingsOne by oneIsn’t cheeseyIt isn’t an exercise in vanityOr a hack for momentary happiness.No.Counting […]
Read more "On counting your blessings"When you’re walking in the dark Sometimes the only respite available Is a tiny sliver of light So far away So faint Barely enough to see your own hand In front of your face. The darkness still shrouds It still calls your name with Disturbing familiarity Where doubt feels more concrete Than truth ever did, […]
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