In this time of awakening, the only way for our society to heal and be whole is to face our truths – as they are, not as we’d like them to be.
Tag: Words
On responding
I could feel it come up. Rise, higher. All I had to do was keep my iPhone aside. Maybe that would create a pause. It did. And it didn’t work. I continued to respond… Only I wasn’t really, responding. I was replying to an emotional reaction. A few weeks ago I wrote about what it […]
On exhaling
A deep breath in. Taking in a deep inhale – you tune out the world and drift into another one , feeling powerful. The first few seconds feel great. You enjoy the rush, it feels relaxing. The next few seconds bring stillness, one you’ve been craving to find. And so you hold it in, this inhale. […]
On words that kill
It was the first time I had killed a man. I did not see how it happened. Only heard the silence, of death. I knew it for certain. It was over. It was over the moment I had said it. It was the first time I had killed a man – with words. It’s years […]
On showing up
We are here For each other For us What made these women come together and share Not that anyone had anything less to do Nor any fewer holds on their calendars But we were all here In that Zoom call (Otherwise so transactional and scheduled) With our guards down Speaking from our hearts To faces […]
On holding it together
How do you hold it together When your whole world seems to fall apart And you barely have some mettle Let alone any remnants of steel You hold yourself together With tape and glue and scraps Any shard you can hold onto Every fragment of your heart Darkness is calling you And you’ve never been […]
On being different
“Our acceptance rate is only 8%”. The cold condensing tone of the admissions manager in Netflix’s latest series, Unorthodox, provoked a thought I had been continually feeling as I watched the episodes of this stunning take on conformities and subcultures I knew so little about. We are instinctively wary of anything different – it makes […]
Citizens of the Earth
If the earth is our homeAnd we are recognized citizens What duty is ours to partake To live up to the namesake Citizens of earth Celebrate earth dayIn your virtual world Full of promises and hopes Reality is shamefulWe are living a lieCan you face this Without shying your eye Citizens of earth Do we know what that meansAnd […]
Time
Once upon a time,Every story starts,Start of you, start of me, The start of life, a reality. A moment in time,Is all it takes,And life as you know it,Has forever changed. You cannot go back, It’s time to move on, Time to get up, Get ready to go on. We think we have time, Infinite […]
Fear of the known
Like most things nowadays, the thought for this post was prompted by a meme I came across the internet that read – I’ll never be able to lie to myself about all the shit I would do if I had time. Now let’s back up. When I was studying Shakespeare in school I had once […]
