The time that I find myself a- slipping into the desperate clutch of madness; that is the time I know I need to write, to let out all emotion’s waves, channel them; Chasing them all into the day, for all to read the profanity of insanity’s whispering; the other voice inside my mind, itContinueContinue reading “To share a story”
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Addiction
You’re choking, fiercely spluttering In depths of darkness, as the weight Of all your failure presses down And alone, you scream in the night The surging fire of your heart Creates a muddled stormy mess Now all your self-control destroyed You sink into mania’s clutch Burning overtakes your senses Leaving them numb, exceptContinueContinue reading “Addiction”
Only you
Only you can put a final end To the darkness that consumes your mind Only you can take that last step and Leave the wounds of your past far behind Image: Edvard Munch, The Scream
Regret
— A standalone extract from my new book, about a mad painter in Renaissance Venice. He sat, up on the terrace, beneath a cloudy night sky that obscured the stars, everything but the moon that had reached the climax of its monthly journey. Even then, he could not make out the contours of that glowingContinueContinue reading “Regret”