Calypso

Lost in the puddles of salty water, is her heart
Melting in the coldness of the firelight
Uncertain about the origin of frigidity
Whether from within or out

Exhausted from screaming at the muggy shadows
Despite their best attempts to dissolve.....
She evaporates in her hot air balloon

Turbulence

12.6.12

The cool breeze warms my face,

evanescing away with my inner calm,

the essence of my stability

leaving behind lit kindling in its place

sparks on the verge of extinction

hurling me into the fire

in their desperation

headfirst into the latest paradox

curlicues of ever-changing emotions

each one whisked away by the next

into the bright oblivion of discarded memories

spontaneously combusting into new meanings and desires

invisible sentiments melting into reality

incapable of holding their own

uncertain in their fluidity

evaporating at the mere mention of the last sunset--

and the sun's impending reunion with the horizon,
hopeful for the sunrise 

9/21/12

***Actually written 9.9.12 at 5:54pm. I wish I could remember what inspired this..***

 Ever move so fast you couldn't feel the emptiness inside of you?

Originally written 9/3/11 but edited 4/16/12

***Very Rough Draft***
Edit 4/19/12
I wished my band aid big enough for everyone.
But it barely protected my papercut.
I wished she weren't abandoned, left to balance the financial burden of her family on her fragile neck.
I didn't know how to help her decipher love and whether she should stay.
I worried she would be stuck, unhappy in her nine to five, homesick and afraid.
I watched as feelings of abandonment encircled him, at rest atop his head, refusing to budge. Temporarily nesting on his permanent cloud of gloom.
They all waited for love, to feel worthy and less lonely once again.
I thought I had all the answers.
A new bottle of rubbing alcohol to take away the worries that plagued us.
But sometimes you have to acknowledged that there just isn't enough to go around.
That life can't be bandaged together and people can't be fixed.
------------------------ They shouldn't be. Because oftentimes, one person's broken is another's perfect.
And after all, life is a journey.

3/27/12

Build them too high and watch them fall down
Through no fault of their own
My enthusiasm wanes as their goodness fades
into the background.

2/18/12

***I haven't posted on here for a long time. Something I intend to change!***

Stretched thin
Tautly pulling the covers on the hands of time
Moving at a pace best suited for them
Until you abandon any expectation that they follow suit
You'll forever be stilled in the grip of time

Some great quotes I found today! Enjoy!!

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind. ~Dodinsky

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history. ~Lemony Snicket

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself? ~Phillip C. McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, 2003

Let's get lost in the dark, forget who we were, and resurface as something new. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet

Your heart knows your song, but you have to be willing to listen to the words. ~Sue Rock, http://sue215.blogspot.com

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. ~Eddie Murphy, 1979

Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart's curtain? ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, "The Fourth Elegy," translated from German by Albert Ernest Flemming

What we do flows from who we are. ~Paul Vitale

There is great security in the prisons we create for ourselves. ~Stephen G. Scalese, The Whisper in Your Heart

We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. ~Mark Twain

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind

Do what you must,
And your friends will adjust.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. ~James Thurber

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid? ~Richard Bach

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ~Jonathan Safran Foer

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match. ~Todd Ruthman

We must be our own before we can be another's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson