I should have refused outright. Jeremy had planned a fancy evening out, in a submarine restaurant. The Ocean Princess had been converted to a high-end jaunt. He was shelling out an awesome amount for this date. Maybe, this was the reason I did not have the heart to refuse. He was looking into my eyes, … Continue reading The Fancy Date
Intensity has a new format. Read on …
I have skittered around the jagged rim of it –
have cringed from its septic snag, standing well back,
pressing against the walls of my cell in the undisguised hell of my life,
thinking to escape its gnashing teeth.
I’ve hidden behind a false smile or fallen with
silent or searing scream while the buzzing in my brain kept
sanity away and all the time I believed
I was being brave.
Don’t give in to it. Don’t let it in or
the monsters will carry you away.
It will scratch your skin, but if you have the will you can
be a wisp of smoke, a ribbon of unreality, you can
cease to be if only for the moment. You can
die in spirit so the hurt won’t reach you. You can
escape the worst of it.
And suddenly it engulfs you, all of it, every last bit, every
truth…
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At the age of twelve, I questioned my grandfather about the unfairness of the will he had drafted. I refused to do the things that nice, domesticated girls were supposed to do, and spent all my time in my grandfather’s library. I cut my hair short, a day before I met my future in-laws, as … Continue reading WHY?
I luxuriate in love, till rivalry casts shadows on the soul Weekend Writing Propmt #24 by Sammi Cox
I manage the orphanage, and pick up deserted infants from parks. The rules allow children below fourteen years to be adopted. I observe that the old beggar on the pavement may not survive this winter. Illness and penury have cast shadows on his life. His chance of finding a roof on the head is remote. … Continue reading Autumn Leaves
Have you measured the depth of shallowness or distance travelled by depth before judging? Have you measured elements above the surface influencing depths below? Optimum and Average are Mean enough to discredit intensity of performance. Humans and machines borrow from the environment to give their output Input matters. Connectivity matters as … Continue reading Parameters
All that keeps welling up seeks a release. So does nature, and the release leads to a flood or storm. Is that pent up rage, mounting imbalance or the burden of human wrongdoing? The biggest mistake the Creator committed is to not give us a common language. The oceans, trees and other forms of life … Continue reading Imbalance
Patricia suggests an alternate approach to dealing with pain.
There have been times when you knew confrontation was going to be tricky, tough and downright scary.
It’s happened in both my working and home life.
I think I ‘stuff up’ a lot with no intention of doing so, and when confronted by authority of my wrongdoing I feel intimidated as now I am on the defensive and have to justify my actions.
It’s that thought of having to justify why you behaved in a certain way that causes us so much angst.
I know I have spent many a sleepless night worrying over a work place action that has required me to front the Principal the next day, when I did things which in hindsight reflected my lazy attitude to procedure.
But you can’t change what you have done, and so for me, it became a matter of let’s get this over and done with. Theirs is only so…
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