Author Archives: simplyajusta

she sat there among the sage brushbrushing her haironly to find it not therein the mist of her hazel eyeseverything was a blurball actions had succumbed to imagesof wordchortles and chucklesshackled in strifewas this the beginning or the ending of lifehad she become a picture about to be hungor were the colors of epic aboutContinue reading “Wilted Sage”

I want to write about the moon and the starsbut all I knowis the concreteof belowthe heavensIt’s the dirt and the grimethat has me mystifiedthe crimes of our soulsthe outwit we possesswhy do we go so far to explorewhen we leave our true self behindwho is behind the maskwe carry here below

I want to be somebodyI want to be nobodyI want to bebewilderedI wantnothing and everythingunknownto mankindI want mysterywithout suspicionand need for careful planningI just want to bebe

if you held my hand and I reached outfor you to hold me morewould youare we more than friends in times of needmore than friendsof comfort in sorrowor will we go our separate wayswhen times of crisis are overcan or will I call upon youwhen fences are mendedand the perimeters are securedor is it beingContinue reading “if you held my hand”

granted I have found shelter among the treesa depth of my soul within the moons embracesbut I never longed to be free of the universal languages of lovehope and charityuntil I entered the realm nonexistenceand there rooted in the world of extinction is a vast wasteland with names drifting and floatingwith no poetic attachment toContinue reading “sheltered”

I smelled Ruthscents of her leapt through the doorand swan across the coffee tablelingering where my feet puddledswirling about my kneescreating a vortex about my legswhirling me uneasily yet breathlessly in peaceto the kitchen in search of lemonsfinding them in the airsuspended in another dimensionI reached for them with my eyesseeing my hands caress inContinue reading “Lemon grass”

My child you are but a flowerwaiting to be formedthe amazement in the trialsyou will overcomewill create the ripples in your petals

I saw her standing thereamong the turmoiland I offered my handthe climb was unbare ablebut together we got throughthe dissolving of gravityand now we repairto escape destiny

I am just sitting here betweenthe worlds of night and daymesmerized by the coming of dawnI am breathing harder than the movement of timemy anticipation extinguishes the aspiration of one into another beingand I hover over myself and the landscapebecoming an observer to my own destinyI see myself breathe in deepand pool into a puddleContinue reading “sitting here and in between”

I am fighting that maskThe one that has kept me disconnectFrom myself and your eyesI am just an amberStill burningAs young as the day I was bornFor IHave let others dictateMy appearanceAnd most importantlyMy voiceMy voice is my mindProjecting my thoughts and idealsBut I have been forcedSubjectedTo believeTo concealMy wondermentFor it was too infantileBut isn’tContinue reading “we are all fighting something within us”