Monthly Archives: July 2021

Take me in and dry the rain

I have been avoiding writing. More aptly, avoiding myself. It hurts to be with myself right now. As always, I feel like a small child trapped in an adult life. There are so many beautiful things about it but I … Continue reading

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Setting fire to our insides for fun

Collecting names of memories and times when life was something to be had. If I could be a fun person, I would be. If I could enjoy every moment of it, I would do it. I would eat it all … Continue reading

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I look to you and I see nothing. I look to you to see the truth.

There are holes in my memory. For all the troubling things I remember about my childhood, what may be more troubling are the things I don’t remember. Chunks and pieces that don’t exist. Maybe they never existed at all. Maybe … Continue reading

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And we’ll all float on anyway

When you’re running some errands at the grocery store and your knees buckle in the frozen food isle. When you think you got this despite feeling like a limp bag of shit, and next minute there are strangers staring down … Continue reading

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There ain’t nobody left. Why can’t I catch my breath?

When I was growing up I had the same best friend from grades 1 through 8. You could have said we were two halves of one whole – we were that tight. I guess you could say, we got each … Continue reading

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As it takes its hold, and it won’t let you go

I have stayed away from writing, partially because I had family staying with me and partially because I feel I have nothing of substance to say and partially because I have not had the energy. Family came and went, and … Continue reading

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Never trusted tomorrow

I am still here, I just can’t write right now. Maybe when my home is my home again. Maybe when my restless legs calm down.

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