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I DON’T KNOW WHAT MOST PEOPLE DAY DREAM ABOUT BUT I DO KNOW WHAT I THINK ABOUT I THINK ABOUT A HOUSE OVERLOOKING LAKE ATITLAN I SEE BIG WINDOWS WHERE THE SUN SHINES IN EVERY MORNING I SEE A LONG KITCHEN TABLE THAT BRINGS EVERYONE TOGETHER I SEE A WALL OF PICTURES THAT HOLD THOSEContinue reading “DAY DREAMER”

SHE QUESTIONS THE SOCIAL NORMS THE PILLARS THAT HAVE HELD UP HER SMALL WORLD THIS FAR WHY ARE THEY THERE AND WHERE WOULD SHE BE WITHOUT THEM WHAT WOULD LIFE LOOK LIKE WITHOUT THESE UPHOLDING RULES AND REGULATIONS WITHOUT THE “MUST HAVES” SHE HAS NEVER QUESTIONED BEFORE THIS STRONG GRIP OF THE WORLD HAS BEENContinue reading “A MOMENT OF REBELLION OR IS IT MORE?”

I GREW UP IN A BUBBLE A SAFE AND COMFORTABLE BUBBLE A PLACE WHERE LITTLE HARM CAME MY WAY BUT ALL THINGS MUST COME TO AN END AND EVENTUALLY THIS BUBBLE POPPED OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD, LIFE TRULY BEGAN MY EYES FINALLY OPENING TO THE REAL SUNLIGHT OF THE DAY TO THE REAL DARKNESSContinue reading “BUBBLE”

I’M WALKING DOWN A HALLWAY SILENCE  JUST HAVING COME THROUGH ONE DOOR AND YET UNSURE WHERE THE NEXT ONE WILL BE I AM IN NO MAN’S LAND I HEAR MY HEART BEAT AND THE SOUNDS OF MY EVERY INHALE AND EXHALE COULD THIS HALLWAY BE ANY LONGER? THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING JUST AS I AMContinue reading “IN THE HALLWAY”

MY THOUGHTS ARE POURING OVER ME LIKE WATER OUT OF A CUP I AM NOT YET DROWNING BUT I CAN FEEL AS THOUGH I WILL BE SOON ENOUGH DO I STOP THE WATER DRIPPING DOWN MY NOSE MY CHIN OR DO I LET THE WATER CONTINUE TO WASH OVER ME? THE ANSWER SEEMS SO OBVIOUSContinue reading “POURING OVER”

TODAY MY GREATEST DESIRE IS TO FLOAT AWAY ON A BOAT I CALL SOLITUDE TO SET COURSE DOWN A RIVER ALL BY MYSELF JUST ME AND MY THOUGHTS TO KEEP ME COMPANY I DON’T EVEN NEED A PADDLE TO HELP KEEP COURSE JUST GOING WHERE THE RIVER LEADS ME WHAT WILL I SEE, SMELL, HEAR?Continue reading “SOLITUDE”

MY LIFE IS LIKE ONE BIG CRASHING WAVE IN THE SEA IT COMES AND GOES WITH THE CURRENT OF SOMETHING BIGGER THAN ITSELF ONE WAVE IN THE MIDDLE OF COUNTLESS ONES JUST LIKE IT BUT EACH WAVE IS UNIQUE IN ITS OWN WAY EACH ONE IS PART OF THE BIGGER PICTURE, THE OCEAN EACH ONEContinue reading “MY CRASHING WAVE”

ALMOST THE END OF JANUARY AND I CAN FEEL THAT WINTER DEPRESSION WEIGHING ME DOWN MY NOSE IS COLD MY TOES ARE COLD AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN I FIND MYSELF DAY DREAMING OF PLACES SOUTH OF THE BORDER SUN AND SANDALS IS WHERE I WANT TO BE BUT SNOW AND SHOVELS ARE WHERE I AMContinue reading “WINTER DEPRESSION”

SELF DOUBT CREEPS INTO MY HEAD THIS MORNING AT THIS POINT IT HAS A KEY TO THE FRONT DOOR COMING AND GOING AS IT WANTS IT HAS MADE ITSELF AT HOME LIKE SOMEONE WHO HAS OVERSTAYED THEIR WELCOME HEARING ITS SCRIPT OVER AND OVER AGAIN HAS BECOME SO ROUTINE FOR ME NOT PRETTY ENOUGH, NOTContinue reading “SELF DOUBT”

TODAY I CLOSED MY EYES AND SAW MYSELF IN A SMALL MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN GUATEMALA ONE THAT I HAVE BEEN TO BEFORE I STOOD THERE IN THE TOWN SQUARE TAKING IN THE VIEW OF ALL THE BEAUTIFUL LOCAL PEOPLE BUT AS THE PICTURE BECAME CLEARER, I SAW SOMEONE LURKING BEHIND ME THE PERSON’S IDENTITY WASN’TContinue reading “THE TRAVELER THAT LURKS BEHIND ME”