What if this burden you carried was not a burden at all, but a gift? What if you carried it all these years, that inescapable baggage, because it was a treasure your soul recognized and did not want to lose? What if this burden you seek to let go need not be taken away by the wind or carried by waves or burnt up in a blaze? What if it was something ( Read more... )

Holding in stale air
Untied your balloon
You're not all there
At least you won't be soon
I know you don't care
But I'm over the moon
You wouldn't dare

..but I've run out of room

the wind is not just the custodian of the outside world ( Read more... )

day after day i look down
from that ledge, unable to look away.
made manic by perverse bravura
the scenic inspiring panic.

i am averse to vertigo
and paralyzed in its inferno
burned alive in the knowledge
that the only thing left to fear
is fearlessness itself.

Fisher used to tell me to do things I didn't believe I could do ( Read more... )

Trying to peace it ( Read more... )

you gotta hand it to double standards. it may very well be all our fault but what can we do? seriously ( Read more... )

The stars are things that reach out to you, but not to lift you up or to offer any support--but just because they have that kind of reach. Truth is the stars don't care if you fall and would just as easily shoot themselves than sparkle for you--they don't care if you notice either way or what you wish on them. Comets will rain down on your head if ( Read more... )

When I first saw you I was afraid because you were so much larger than me. I remained so still that you didn't notice me for a while. I watched you moving through the grass, so calm, so content with your surrounding solitude. I couldn't stay motionless and invisible for ever, I had to slither on and produce that shiver up your spine. You were ( Read more... )

I started sniffing spiders on the beach at night in South Carolina. My dad and I learned together from a tour guide, we got to be pretty good at it. You don't really smell them, you just pretend to by putting the flashlight up to your nose. You line up your field of vision with the top of the beam of light as you scan the ground; the spiders' ( Read more... )