I am fast approaching the age,— the biblical allocation of three score years and ten,(Although modern medicine means it should be re-evaluated),When my thoughts increasingly turn to the future,And what it might hold before the inevitability of death,— an...
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Out Of The Darkness
Things are not always clearer, even after you've stepped out of the darkness.I wake on my left side, shivering from the cold. I fumble for the comforter but come up empty-handed. Annoyed, I roll onto my back thinking I'll have to wrestle it from Ben, my blanket-stealing husband who likes to wrap himself in a cocoon. Instead of fee...
Eloise's First Deer
setting: 1959 Western Montana, sage covered Confederated Salish & Kootani Reservation range landLee handed his eight-year-old daughter a shotgun loaded with a pumpkin-ball. She couldn't shoulder the heavy shotgun correctly, and the pumpkin-ball had less than the range of a football field. It was safe enough. His thinking was that he would send Elois...
First Wound
A peek inside my head...“I will gladly endure pain after pain after pain if it means being happy in the end. Unless of course, it kills me, in which case I have not earned that happiness.” “That’s the definition of insanity you know.”“We’ve already established that I’m insane.”...
When we finally come to the end of those lives we all have lived will the faithful be rewarded, and will others miss the final warning when it sounds? There are times when it feels as there is nothing remaining and the darkness can be felt beginning to fa...
Dark Penance
Penance is an agent of the dark ones, collecting dark souls for his master to feedDark PenanceGeorge opened his eyes. He felt cold laying on a slab of cold stone. He glanced around, but it was too dark to make out anything except a solitary figure. He was tall, clean shaven and wore a long dark coat and a Fedora hat.The man had removed...
The wind howls And wraps around her heart It creeps and it prowls As it tears her apart She floats between reality and fantasy alike Her dreams are now just falling apart She clutches them tight Hoping the pain will soon depart He promised to protect her...
The road to your cabin is rutted, with sides that are just sheer enough that I have a recurring daydream about slipping off a hazy edge into the trees on a future icy night. I sometimes wonder whether the jagged branches would impale me or just stop the c...
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Goodbye Grandma Rae
No one saidWe’re going up to the hospital to see Grandma Rae. I didn’t even know she was sick. As we step off the elevator, the smell of hospital engulfs me. I never like it but it is part of a visit. Hope she’s OK. A knock, ”Come in.” we enter and there she is. In...
Another day rises, I'm afraid of waking up Without a plan or novelty as always. It's a bright morning But, for bright people. Though, for me... The sunrise seems like A smoke bomb. It only... Cuts my heart, Destroys my soul, Ruins my thought, And ends up...
When I am ashes upon the shelf Will you remember me When you feel your skin tingle Will you remember me When you sense a breath in your ear Will you remember me When you see my toothbrush by the sink Will you remember me When you see my pictures Will you...
We experience magic Everyday in our life Sunrises to the horizon Starting of a new day Moon shines with the Stars at night guiding us Winds blowing trees Swaying and dancing Thunder and lightening Strikes in the sky Rain falling from the sky Watering flow...
"It's over? Isn't it?" I dropped my head and looked to the cold floor. "I can't believe how long it took me to believe it. I mean, I knew when it happened, but it didn't sink in until now." There was no response. "I won't hurt myself. I won't blame myself...
Is this a dream? Like you're on top of That rocky mountain Floating in the air Dancing aurora above. That feeling of Light headedness Wanting to laugh Wanting to cry All at the same time. Is this nightmare? That feeling of angry Laughing at yourself on H...
Release yourself into the winds,Allow yourself to spin widdershins. No better time to be alive,Allow the best to yet arrive. There is no fate, no destiny,Don't cast your lots, sing out, be free. Your sails unfurl and move you outTo serve your dreams, to d...