The more I know about love
The farther my journey seems
I feel desperate, I feel angry, unloved and tired
God is making me rely on him
For my rent, my sustenance, my happiness
And it feels like I might die
I won’t go down without a fight
So misery haunts me
And joy mocks me
I’m tired of learning
It’s too painful
Ignorance must be bliss
I want so badly to be the person
Who writes my poems
Of faith, hope, and love
And not the pitiful failure
Who curses and sulks and grinds her teeth
When will she just die?
Yearly Archives: 2009
Lost in the Aspiration (136/365)
Instead of aspiring for greatness
Aspire to do great things
One day at a time
One task at a time
Come down from the clouds
To the work that builds a man
Drugs and Speed (135/365)
A meth-head rides the bus, skinny arms
In a shiny purple shirt
Her face splotchy and raw
Three hundred years of abuse
Caffeine and nicotine
Breakfast of losers
Bellies of acid, lungs of smoke
Leather skin
I inhale thick fumes
From the truck up ahead
Our foul addictions
To drugs and speed
Trust (134/365)
Love is stronger than pride
Truth outlasts a lie
But pride and lies are easy
Truth and love require trust
That the universe won’t fail you
Words (133/365)
A few well-spoken words
Have changed the world
The internet is our opportunity
Deep (132/365)
We all have our tendencies
That keep us from each other
Relationships that get deep
Reveal the armour we wear
Far under our clothes
We more than reproduce
We aren’t satisfied with bodies
We must bear our souls
And expose the hidden nature
Peeling layer by dirty layer
Opening the scabs
Until the light shines out pure and unveiled
A glimmer keeps hope alive
Through hard times and fear
Until that sweet day when love conquers all
Movements (131/365)
Seasonal changes
Howl at the moon
Help me help you
Reaching out
Pulling through
Overtime work
Not in the mood
Balance yourself
Time to reflect
Continue or change
Pulling strings overhead
Laundry Process Improvement
An improvement to my laundry process tonight: I first brought up my dried laundry and sorted it into 4 or 5 piles: Things with Legs, Things with Arms, Undies/Bras, Socks, Skirts/other. I then folded and put away one group at a time. For example, I have separate drawers for exercise pants, jeans, non-jeans dressy, non-jeans casual, and PJ pants.
This 2-step process was actually easier than sorting into all my 15-or-so piles at once. It was fast to do the pre-sort, which made for less wrinkles than if I had left them in the basket. I then came back at the end of the day to do the 2nd step.
Onward & upward!
Tired (130/365)
Drop dead tired
Finished
Word slurs
Keep a commitment
Consider it done
A Better World (129/365)
In this corner of the universe
We are all just trying to live
The greatest gift you can give is mercy
To let the bad vibes stop at you
If we all made each other’s lives easier
Fewer people might feel
Like fighting to hang on to what little they have
Imagine
If all we could do
Was love and not fear
What peace would reign in our hearts
What sorrows would be forgotten
What blessings we could share
The world we could bestow