I see it all

The gentle flickering of life

A smile on a passing stranger

A tree swayed with finite winds

I see it all

The air wrapping around my chest

Moving with my own breath

Cooling my skin

I see it all

Earths violent spin

The void when I look up

The connection we share

I see it all...

“One breath at a time.” The most annoying advice my therapist gave me for when I feel myself losing control. What am I gonna do? Take two breaths? Three? No shit I take one breath at a time. I get it, I get it, its meant to relax me, take me away from whatevers bothering me, put me in a better state. But he also told me about justified anger. When something is crossing your boundaries, my “reasona...

I don’t get to have many things in this life anymore. The system takes away simple pleasures like that, because they know a simple pleasure can keep a man sane. The clothes I wear are borrowed. When I die, they’ll wash them, tear them apart, then sow it onto another man. The bed I sleep on is sown into the frame, which is bolted into the ground. Even a good meal, I’m not allowed to have. They’re a...

My sweet treats will not be found by them. They are mine and only mine. I treat them very good, yes, very good. I give them food. I give them sunlight for one hour. I kiss them often. They are my sweet treats to eat and sweet treats need love and care and kisses and hugs BUT they cannot have too much or else I get sad when I eat them so only a few kisses and hugs and love, enough to make them nice...

“Pal, I won’t argue with ya. You seem like a man who stands for something. A man who sees what he wants, takes it, and doesn’t apologize. For that, I envy you. I may not look it, but deep down, I am a coward. Yessir, its true. If I was standing right where you’re standing, pointing the gun at me like how you’re doin’, and my victim started groveling, begging for life. I know I’d cave in a second. ...