Ultimatum

It swirled inside
a kaleidoscopic storm
shaking the tin roof
of my equilibrium
I dealt with Want first
-this is what I want-
Fear was tamed second
-this is what I deserve-
I tied it all in words
-simple, brave, kind-
I opened my hands
and let the wind take it
Now I sit quietly
peacefully
and wait

[purplemonkeysexgod69]

bad love poem #5729

let us dance

like old lovers.

mouthfuls of razor blades

and hearts

full of good intentions

[betterthannonfiction]

Let us love

Iike old dancers

hearts full of graceful moves

and feet

desperate to twirl

one last time

[old-school-romantics]

“𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎, 𝑰 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕.”

-Mahmoud Darwish

Going to work in Middle Earth

It’s Thursday

My Prementrual Dysphoric Disorder

Manifests like the Thanatos instinct

Dressed up like a Dementor

The first time it was you
impulsive impetuous
improvident you
The next time it was me
desire dished out
as deliberate due
The third time we both swam
in the same snaking river
and afterward snoozed
on the same sunlit shore
Now the season awaits
rolling rains of renewal
and I wish I could show you
the might to move mountains
Amidst symbols on sand
my heart softly hums
subtlest songs of assurance
that somewhere somehow
you do, too

[quotemadness]

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

— Ernest Hemingway

The other side

You are the place

Without expectations

Where I can sit

And just be

I hope you know

How grateful

I am

For your soft

Compassion

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

[eatmangoesnekkid]

“All your states of being are divine therefore allow yourself the phenomenal pleasure of being with them all, accepting them all, adoring them all-so that you can properly alchemise them into more love.”

— India Ame’ye, Author

Anonymous asked:

Is there a thought or a struggle
that you would like to leave behind you permanently?

I’ve been thinking about my tendency towards wanting to make sense of things at all costs, as there’s no greater sense of conquest, for me, than seeing the whole picture, particularly when I’ve worked so hard to find all the pieces of the puzzle. On the one hand, this tendency has been good to me. I’ve become very good at sniffing hidden pieces out, and even, when I can’t find them, deducing their shape by an almost mathematical process of calculating their probability, meaning that sometimes my maps include ghost pieces that I never actually found but that I’m fairly positive hold entire branches of meaning together. The problem is as life unfolds, I’m increasingly faced with situations where the missing portions are too large and completely out my reach. When the range of possibilities is too vast and I can’t locate the next piece on which to walk, I feel paralised and frustrated with myself because I’m usually so good at this meaning-making game. So, I guess the struggle is with sitting in the moment with what I know and what I don’t know and still finding peace in knowing that some parts of the map might forever remain incomplete, and that even so, somehow, I can keep on walking and things will be okay. I think some people would call this faith. In what/whom exactly, is another matter altogether.

And if all I can hold of you
are moments, I will give them
the shape of your shoulders
the way they curve around me
when we’re naked and alone
I will become a moment too
an instant of flames and cloves
coiled and burning on your tongue
long after I’m gone