I still remember your “Hey”s and sighs
I recite your dreams
Sing your tears
Can’t forget your heartbeat
And cadence
But I only hear clippings of conversations
I remember my rage
My angst
Your sweet toxin
Our Warmth
Hours of my life swallowed up in perfect lips
Only loose thoughts reach out
I remember pain and loss
Moving forward
Death
Mass annihilation
Bounding betrayals
But I only have clippings of conversations
Our time blurred
I am not the same man
But I wonder would you love me
Would your kisses taste the same
Even with just clippings
I have more than you
Tag: Life
Is or Was
I have given much thought to the idea that people who leave us, don’t always leave us. Maybe we think about them less; Or morn the people they’d become. But, we don’t forget the things they loved, the ideas they had. We even keep their saved games. So is was, right?
Like green was his favorite color or her smile was as bright as the sun. I want to choose is. I don’t know if that would still be true. If they were still alive maybe they’d be sick of the things they used to love. But, I want to say Green is his favorite color and He has a soft spot for monkey. She was first person to say she liked my hair long and she taught me so many things with a smile that was so filled with the joie de vivre.
All I’m saying is sometimes it feels better to say is instead of was and I’m giving you the power to choose. I’m not super spiritual myself but, think they things they showed us and taught us aren’t gone so maybe that means they aren’t either. I find comfort in being a web of expeirences touched by others. Our lives are passion projects and those people who touch our lives are the florishing sheet that goes over our grand design.
Live well, readers. Maybe meditate on this for a bit. Tell me about your choice: Is or Was and give me a like or check out some of the other things I’ve written.
Despiration vol. 1
Where do you put your work in
Where does your heart go
I just want to hear you say something
Maybe this is what I was missing before
I wanna hear more than I love you
more than I want you
Do you really know me
or just the parts I show you
please just see me
I’m right here in front of you
Soul
As I watched the movie huddled with my family for the first time in a year on my mother’s tiny tv in the tv room we grew up in. I felt… lucky. Lucky that my family hasn’t fallen apart with all that has been going on. I know not everyone has been this lucky but, for me streaming this movie and magnifying it in my own mind it felt like the time before.
Covid has taken less from me than it has for others and I am so grateful for it to have decided to skip my family. My mother has even gotten a vaccine and mine might be coming rather soon. An end to an agony of anxiety.
Soul is on the cutting edge of Pixar with a brilliant art direction. Soul is decidedly Black in a way that multiple times it hit home to an expierence I’m not always able to put into words. A lot of my original feelings about this movie and the metamorphic trope that continues to happen to black characters in animation feel unfounded with a movie like this one. But all of that went away when this movie started up and the first notes played.
You should watch Soul. The music was splendid, with each note played my heart answered. The art though exaggerated didn’t make black men out to be clowns. Which seems to be a problem for some in making animation. The animation spends time and money showing how each note is played. The city comes alive withe people of all body types and skin colors.
I think that it touches on so many of the themes I have felt thus far this year. There is no grand design and living life itself can be such a remarkable thing. I cried just whilst he was just playing My brother even called me out on it. I couldn’t help it. This movie just kept plucking my strings. Playing my heart like an instrument.
Each new idea Soul brings forth is a tantalizing string to pull. I have spent a lot of time day dreaming about their cosmos and afterlife. It has me reflecting on life itself as much as Inside Out had me thinking about what my emotional make up would be.
Recently, things that have made me cry happy tears has been when someone gets acknowledgement for something they’ve put a lot of work in. I want more moments like this in my life and seeing Joe finally get the recognition his skills was bouying in such a turbulant time. This movie was just thing to cap off that 2020 feeling.
2020
2020 was interesting. It wasn’t my best year and I had to put a bunch of all the things I wanted on the backburner. I know my book hasn’t come out but, writing was really difficult this year. So I’m just gonna put down some of the good things that have happened to me.
- I wrote more on here.
- Got back in touch with a good friend.
- Made a few decisions that were good to me.
- Got closer to some people I wouldn’t have guessed in a million years.
- I found new strength in my own mental health. Deciding if I can work being an essential worker during a pandemic then I can probably make it through some other less impactful things.
- I went on some dramatic self-emprovement outside and inside.
While it’s not a lot of wins. I think I’ve become a better person and that’s all I think I could have asked for this year. Thank you for following me this far and I hope I can keep giving you reasons to check out my site. I’ve got a few more posts coming out the rest of this week and I want to start 2021 with a bang.
The Act of Loving
When the act of loving is missing,
you can really feel it.
It’s sweet words and squishy feelings
Without thick walls and drawn curtains
Its sex without foreplay
Or pulling teeth to get the
one thing you thought you’d both like to do… done.
It’s loneliness
Giving more of yourself then you can stand
It’s “What do you want me to do?!”
Yelled out while someone just
wants to you to hold them
It’s not being able to share your day
Your month
Your year
Your life
It’s walking around on egg shells
because if you put into words
the things that are really wrong
you’ll break things
and that might break you.
It’s the threat of leaving
Hanging over and spoken out loud
Drilling into your insecurities
But you know what you need.
So leave
Go and get it.
Self-care
I got my hair done on Tuesday and it feels great. You know that feeling where you don’t feel like yourself unless you’rein your favorite sweatshirt or jeans or everything just isn’t right until your make up is done? Well that’s me. I love my braids. When I picture myself as a successful person/writer it’s with braids. Maybe it’s weird but, it just makes me feel at home in my own skin. For me having them in is self care.
I have spent a lot of time this year on taking care of myself. Trying to lose a bit of weight, incorporating a skincare routine and, even bought a watch for trying to work through the ADHD time slippage. I want to come out better from this terrible year.
Self-care is so important. I know myself and without it I kind of just subsist in the world. The depression hits and I just spend all day playing games or something just to try to relax. I’m not saying videogames aren’t effective self-care but, I think for me and just the types of games I play there just isn’t always that same sense of accomplishment I get from just making sure I did two face masks this week. I’ve realized besides writing it kind of just makes me feel like I got something done and I am overall better for the ten minutes I took to do it.
I began throwing out a bunch of the old mess in my room leftover from a previous person and donated some clothes too. It’s odd sometimes what throwing a bag of trash out will do for your mind. ( I should probably clean up more often. It’s not gonna happen but, I probably should.) I have been feeling a little freer in this past week and I’m hoping I can keep up the momentum. Keep changing enough small things to make me a stronger more well-rounded person. To me, my self-care is trying to improve minuscule things over and over again to eventually create a chain reaction of positive change.
1:37
It starts.
At 1:37 am it starts,
A tightness in my chest that starts like a bulb.
It spreads crawling, winding all over me until
Chest, shoulders, upper arms, neck.
I can’t draw breath.
But, I know what I must do!
I stagger bleary-eyed to my computer
Why didn’t I just go to bed!
My mind screams at me
Tight, Tighter, Tighten
It’s over my clothes now,
Into my seams
The only way to rid my self of this poison…
I bleed it out,
The cold knife slips into to a well-worn vein.
On the keyboard,
Splattered on the walls,
The light from the screen is tainted.
Showing lifeless blue through scarlet life
I am free.
Bloodlet from creativity
Maybe now I can turn over
Maybe now I can get some sleep.
Your Truth
They starved you at a feast.
Tied to a chair and watched those around you
Stuffing faces and
Having over full bellies,
Rubbed.
While you cried,
Died,
Wasting away until you couldn’t even be tied with ropes.
Hopes,
Put on someone who could save you died
On dried and cracked lips
Hips
Only thing you thought you were good for was cock rocking and moaning
And groaning you did away with their pain
Rain
Came down torrential
Unintentional but, it’s all your fault,
Right?
Plight
Goes on unanswered everyday,
everyway you asked and pleaded
They stood up and retreated,
defeated you cried,
died felt the pain,
the rain,
and like a current you were dragged again and again.
They weren’t enough, much too rough.
They got cut,
And you were the one to bleed.
Their need the same refrain.
Remains,
You gathered them up in fragile arms.
A magpie in the wild,
A raccoon in the woods,
Collecting and erecting the skeleton of a life you could love
Shoved
Down, drowned in rivers of your own fears
Gasping for air
Hair,
You cut just to divest from the stress of a world closing in,
Hoping that a change on the outside
Will rearrange you inside
Ride it out,
Breathe it in,
Quell the storm that rages within,
Kin
Never loved you,
When you needed them they abandoned you too.
Shamed and Blamed you too
Withdrew,
Into yourself,
Into your art,
Into your head,
To your core.
Ore.
You found a prize behind the pain.
Didn’t get better,
You got even!
Decided to soar higher than anyone’s expectations
You believed in you,
Got through.
Thrived.
Striving to be more,
And greater.
You smashed the ceiling
Unfeeling,
As the glass cut you
Because you learned long ago,
That success didn’t happen without a little discomfort.
Your life started out tough,
But you know that terrain.
Here’s your refrain.
It’s all uphill from here.
You’ve kissed the sky.
And Helios touched you!
Used to be a victim of your own mind,
Reflect, directed it back and
Now…
You know your own truth
Spark
I feel at times like a dark room
Full of possibility, promise, and a hint of threat
A match struck
and revealed in me something
I wasn’t aware I needed.
The red light seared my weakened eyes
And then I beheld it.
Dimension, volume, and purpose
And when it left
I’m left with more woe than was ever known before
As if light itself was always meant to be…
Fleeting.
With just one flash it solidified my walls
threw away nebulosity
and because of that,
I feel,
I can’t return to the void again.
Should I wait
Hold my breath and suffer
or am I subsisting on nothing more than a blank promise?
And if were to come another time
instead of merely beholding it’s quenching glow
I will find my own light switch
and shine the light that was always meant to be mine.
