Tag: life lessons

Waiting ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #19

I wait
For the flood tide of tourists
Arriving on buses
Destined for Islands
And secluded beaches

Carrying their openness
And prejudice
With equal tenacity
Conscious only
Of their openness

Unencumbered, must I enter
Unattached
Unburdened

Burdens weigh me down
Attachments distract me
Encumbrances hold me back

I sat
Relaxed
Settled myself
Turned my consciousness inward
And breathed

Breathing in
Breathing out

In the quiet
I observed
The peace
Of my mind
Of my body

I cannot find balance
Without loving darkness
In equal measure to the light

In the mirror
It was just the one tear
In the many streaks of mascara
Which struck her… wrong

The tear was wrong
The conditions were wrong
Her love was wrong
He was wrong

Her life… was wrong

Fearless
I would fail less
Or more

I would never fail
For fear of trying
I would fail
For reaching further
Than I could grasp

Nowhere to land
Nowhere to rest
Details blurred
No clear subject

Frustration
As true in art
As in life

Nothing lightens the burden
Like a hearty guffaw
Like deep laughter
Rising up from the depths
Clearing me of the darkness
Lifting up the weight

It has always been
When following a path
With iron-clad conviction
That I find myself
Furthest astray

She saw me
She saw right through me
To the other side of a nothingness
I wasn’t able to fill
Wasn’t able to see in myself

And I couldn’t see her at all
Well, what I saw was fractured
Misaligned
But that wasn’t her
It was all I could see