You’re most vulnerable Absent distraction Nothing to hide your Bubbling emotion You thought the reverse That with time and space You’d at last find a Break from your mind’s race But there is no calm No stillness and ease When really, deep down The soul is diseased Image: Edvard Munch, The DayContinue reading “Distraction”
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At the end of the day…
You surround yourself With noise and clutter Distractions and people And tasks to be done Filling the day, you While away the time As you avoid the truth, Keeping up the facade But at the end of the day When the night falls There’s no one but you, Nothing but your mind Continue reading “At the end of the day…”
Blackout
It comes, sometimes so sudden Like fog in the mountains, Descending into every rise And fall of the slopes and valleys; Erasing all sense of up and down, as The whole world turns a numbing white Only it’s black, black and hot As a burning sensation rushes to your head And sparks of concentratedContinue reading “Blackout”
Sunrise
Waking mercy of the sunrise Won’t you show me where your strength lies Furnish hope and give me courage To endure this earthly body For the limits of the flesh Weaken resolve, crippling the soul And the numbness of a frigid night Is stealing joy away from sight… You wonder why it allContinue reading “Sunrise”