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movement is what keeps us awake when we start to fall – it's like: life is saying, “something” just out of reach. to fully understand, though, you'd have to go to sleep
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movement is what keeps us awake when we start to fall – it's like: life is saying, “something” just out of reach. to fully understand, though, you'd have to go to sleep
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i have a secret world, that blossomed from all my fears, that I scribbled down in electric notes, that will never disappear. when all my days are over, as slowly my words undone, seek out my hidden hamlet and read it while sitting under the sun.
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the breathe caught in my throat as the cradle slowly climbed, click click click in each moment i could feel time being so caught up in the stream, its intoxicating
click
I found a mountain far away, that looked like one Id seen on the drive here, the smell of popcorn wafting through the incensed air
click
We've only talked on the phone, how could this be so easy.
As easy as getting on a rollercoaster
terrifying is . climb . the . . but the drop is what sets love free
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“You're the best friend i've ever had” was what the boy had said words which filled me up that feel like skateboard wheels crunching over sidewalk that smell like sea salt kites flying haphazardly through early spring light
“You're the sweetest, kindest man” was what the bride had said through moist eyes and smiling lips flowers draped around the room dancing close, the world shut out our hearts beating in terror at a world that we would build just starting out
“You're the best dad ever
was what the little girl said
As air changes away from summer
cool wisps of fall
autumn colored hair
back and forth on the swing
hazel eyes paired with smiling lips
laughter and innocence
“You were the world to me, mom” I said as I heard her voice fade from the phone The sounds of the machines scream Footfalls, are the last thing I hear as the line goes dim a weight blooms over my chest pushing down on a world that till now only thought it had known what it was to be threatened
Thinking back on those phrases that built me phrases and moments that others planted deep inside seeds I've nurtured, watered to keep growing make me smile even as my body turns a little cold
Looking into your eyes, my once small girls today at last, is my turn “You're the best daughters a father could ask for please love and never be ashamed by it”
Lost a pet today and I got to bury it. This was my youngest first time really dealing with something dying she really cared about. It took me back to when I was around her age. To when Id seen my cat dead on the walkway.
I wish it hadn't happened today but the universe can be just as cold as it is kind.
I hug my kids and keep going
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We stay up observing snow fall together wrapped warmly in a blanket silent fairies dance to Earth prodded by hungry winds send flecks skyward
Lightning arches across the livid sky A low growl chases soon after I feel you edge yourself closer
Another ripple fulminates the window turns opaque I can see your face, turned towards me So I move mine to meet yours
The thunder shakes the house My heart leaps
At once your head is on my shoulder, watching blizzard of dancing crystals shapes manifest waves of fallen icy stars howling wind raise pillars of glass
wind and snow thunder and lightning natures unfocused uncaring presence
watching the window seeing you watch out pixies playfully dance in your eyes
Got to enjoy the first snowfall in awhile and although the show didn't occur quite as poetically. I like to think that most memories can be playfully rewrote to be a bit more exciting. Not that having kids trashing your house isn't a fun time, most days.
Sometimes for my own health its nice to take a mental voyage to a place where a moment is as easy as sitting watching the snow fall.
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When life gets rough I close my eyes Then I wake here
Sitting cross legged I feel the waterfall on my back The warm sun and brilliant sky before me
The weight of each droplet hurts A thrumming pummeling wave Travels over my head neck Slamming down my back
I don't try to end the torrent Breathing slowly, letting go I embrace this
Pieces of my body start to chip away Slow at first, then quicker and quicker Collapsing into the water
Soon I am nothing Just colors swirling in a pool below a waterfall
Somehow I can still feel Somehow I can still see Somehow I can grow and so I do
I let myself reach out Let myself find warmth Following that heat Until I find the source
There at the hot spring I relax and let myself coalesce until I form into something like me again
Not the broken mass struggling under a torrent But A new person having survived it
I don't do that visualization as much as I used to. But so many times I would be in board rooms or giving a talk. The eyes of people looking or when I misspoke seeing how my words missed the mark. Id go back to a cube or an open space, my small designated corner of the world. I'd put my head in my hands and I would see the above poem.
Life can be so hard sometimes and I know it could always be worse but I have this nagging feeling. That this life isn't how things should be. You shouldn't work years for the privilege of baseline economic security.
Why can't I just become a doctor or poet or artist because I want to. Where is my time and choice? Why does it always have to be so one sided.
People are kaleidoscopes In a world that frowns on colors
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Tom walked through the glade of trees His footfalls breaking dry timber His cadence awkward but not labored Slowly, looking out through eyeless sockets He spotted the massive castle
Row after row greyer colored rock
Tom closed within inches of the walls Allowed his finger to stretch Then walking, trailed an outline across the rock
“Help”
The voice again, he looked up far far up was an opening And so Tom began to climb
Another busy day of helping my oldest figure out how to communicate virtually. Really makes me feel for her since I can remember just hating to directly ask my teacher for help. Now, its so damn important since every assignment is funneled through google classroom.
Also having used gcp in the past I can happily say that the UI designers tried their best but missed the mark.
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A timid voice floated out of the great grey castle words which melted with cries carried then by the wind through the surrounding forest into the bonemeal ears of a skeleton
“Help”
The skeleton, named Tom, rose
His last memory was by a necromancer who, after summoning him had died quite suddenly
Tom had suspected a heart attack
But for the newly reanimated skeleton that event was pretty awful, because without a word or phrase to bind meaning for his locomotion it meant laying against a tree for a very very very long time.
So Tom, very thankful, stood began to walk through the trees and approach the castle
Thinking this one is going to be a two parter
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I remember you mentioning once the reason you hadn't killed yourself
I thought that reason was odd at the time
But over the years like ivy falling, wrapping itself down a pillar
your answer was enough
though it never fueled comfort that answer never lied the way other truths would
So after a time I took it into myself this burnt ember of truth
that each day is tough that it is frustrating
you told me
“Holding that knife I felt like an imposter – not me id rather be a sad me than a killer”
Bleh, got off the writing horse again. Stupid crazy life
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Easily ignored and forgotten Tiny moments Of not honking your horn not yelling not cursing restrained Being at peace Letting others that swim – go around
Not because your weak or lame or passive because life is better
when you look deep into each other acknowledging were in this together
Its Wednesday and I spent so long today getting utf-8 encoding to work properly from xls –> csv that im going to sleep now
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