The quickened thumping in my breast

So much faster, more frantic than before

The switching, flitting of my crest

As my eyes and ears catch and filter more

It’s maddening to me

After such a life of sullied foot and hand

That this is what I should be

Something now so light and free, so grand

For in my human life, as it passed

Though long enough and healthy, too

Nothing I loved and held could eve...

Once in a while

We are lost in the woods

Or in the jungle made of metal and concrete

Lost like a child

We’re neither evil nor good

We are innocent, shameless, but also incomplete

There is a place

Where the lost children go

But it’s hard to know where it can be found

In their eyes, their face

Haunted by grief, it will show

You have to look inside to see where it is bound

In a child’s hea...

I used to wish that I could fly among the stars

I used to wonder how it would feel to live on Mars

Because here, on Earth, I live behind these bars

Built by my own fears, that I learned to keep like scars

When I had to accept that she was never coming back

When I let myself plunge headlong into the black

When I said God no to healing, Hell yes to the slack

When death was all I was dealing, I ...

When I stepped out of my comfort zone

And stepped out across the globe

I realized my life and faith was not my own

I’m but a flicker in the greater strobe

All across the world, it seems to me

Everyone has the same dreams to be free

Traveling far and wide, to many foreign lands

Makes me see the truth, helps me to understand

Up in the Andes of Peru, the coca tea they drink

Helps them bear ...

Upon the land we lubbers long and languish

Separate from sanguine sea and sacred sky

Yet there among the vapors, unvanquished

Float our daydreams, there our imaginations may fly!

Across the azure sphere a brigade begins their march

From each glassy horizon, a heady, heavenly gift

Bourne of brine, sea and sun, above, apparitions arch

Billowing, boundless — a pelagic procession, adrift!

A pelic...

As the final days of summer loom

I trust I must make plenty of room

For my heart to grow and keep on going

In the light and warmth of life’s sweet glowing

As the summer sun slides north, sinks ever faster

My days grow shorter, time was always their master

I look to the west, wondering where I will be

When autumn falls, from what walls will I break free?

My heart still longs for joy, adventure i...

The blithe bliss of ignorance

The beauty of being asleep

To slumber in cognitive dissonance

To shepherd the dreams that you covet and keep

But what about the lost sheep you are counting?

Where will that wayward herd keep their winter?

When troubles and tensions are clearly mounting,

How then will your dreams endure without splinter?

To wish away pain and wait its passing, night or day

To ho...

REPORT (INITIAL FINDINGS - CRIME INVEST.)

CALISTO CITY POLICE

DETECTIVE LOWREN THORN, LDOD

SUMMER SOLSTICE DAY, JULIUS, 2071

LOCATION: RIVER RUN APARTMENTS, UNIT 2D

DETAILS:

Upon entering the apartment unit, my partner, Detective Angelore, and I could smell Melthorvian Bitter Rock residue and could see the place was unkempt and littered with telltale signs of sloth and gluttony crimes includ...

September 5

I can hardly believe the summer is nearly gone. And in just a few weeks more it will be my birthday. How can I be turning 50? I just turned 40! There’s never enough time. Ever since Sissy died I realize how time just keeps disappearing. I know I’m supposed to cherish it more and treat it like it’s a precious commodity. And it is. But I can’t just suddenly change. I still love her. I m...

Oh, my God - have mercy! Another morning. The endless cycle continues. Poor Aiden‘s dog. Sorry Alyssa‘s cat. David’s great grandmother who was never sick. Gina‘s grandson, just eight days old. A butterfly on a windshield. A baby bird falling from its nest. A baboon killed by a leopard. A lion killed by a poacher. A politician killed by cancer. A crab boiled alive and smashed to be cooked. Luke’s f...