Humans they refused to believe how their future would end
Seeing is believing
I saw the future but no one would believe me.
What have I tried to repair?
Here is a short piece a wrote at an online writer’s retreat last Spring in response to the prompt : “What have you tried to repair? I have tried to repair the cracks in the foundation of unity. Cracks born of ego, propelled by judgement, comparison, self-interest. Dark forces...
Messy but Colorful
When I saw my room redecorated with my favorite—and expensive—paint, the word compassion was not on my vocabulary. Yet, when I saw you covered in paint and excitedly mom how you were painting just like your older sister was—and the same materials—I told mom it was my fault for...
Bucked Off
If you get bucked off in life, get back on.
The pain of love
He stares at the waves as they crash into the rocky beach. With a kind of violence that is unique and quite in sync with his emotions. Today would forever remain a very dark spot in his memory. The day that she left him, high and dry in a...
Brother Come Lately
The alarm goes off now i’m awake. I check the new notification on my phone. It reads “Amazon package arrives in 20 min. “The day is here”! “It’s 10:00 am, and the delivery of the package is imminent.” I spring leap off the mattress and rush for my clothes...
On my mind.
Ask, and it is given, or be silent and lost.
Unpredictable Darkness
A dancing butterfly confined between dust and death, tussle the idea of loss.
My Inspiration
Sweat rains from my body as I near the end of my run. I keep myself going by remembering that I am my father’s legacy.
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