Dare to share

Emotions are something that we are taught to hide, to be ashamed of, to fear. Emotions are highly useful tools designed to help us communicate and connect. Human connection is one of our most powerful and under utilized resources. Without emotion, those connections become thin and easily frayed. Sometimes fellowship is all that we need to make it through the storm. Dare to share how you feel. 

Random rants and chants

Life is love
Love is truth
Truth is cruel
Cruelty is pain
Pain is alive
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If life is the flame of a candle
Then laughter is the flicker
Desire is the heat
Love is the dance
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Silken kisses on silver wings
Powder blue sins in canary dreams
Caramel love on chocolate skin
Vanilla sobs on strawberry winds
Sage disappointment and olive lies
Bourbon secrets and maroon cries
Indigo fears and turquoise tears
All are housed within our years
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Can you feel in the void of thought?
Can you hear the silence of reflections?
Can you touch the absence of light?
Can you smell the bittersweet of experience?
Can you breathe in the toxic of truth?
Can you see the reincarnation of energy?
Can you taste the expiration of time?
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A writer writes

A writer writes
Consistently imperfectly and occasionally profoundly.

A writer writes
To hear the sound of their voice inside the mind of their readers.

A writer writes
To create syllables of sincerity, sentences of passion and paragraphs of enlightenment.

A writer writes
To woo the world one word at a time.

A writer writes
To see
To feel
To dream
To grieve
To breathe
To create
To demolish
To understand
To clarify
To exist
To live

A writer writes
Because that is their purpose.

Nouns and verbs

Stress cripples
Indecision waits
Depression nullifies
Anticipation paces
Appreciation beautifies
Loneliness amplifies
Pain blossoms
Imagination wonders
Travel educates
Anxiety surges
Laughter cures
Tears relieve
Sleep soothes
Faith repels
Fear multiplies
Bitterness spoils
Prejudice festers
Joy strengthens
Love conquers

Proper culprits

Stop blaming love.

When we are heartbroken, we aren't hurting because of love. We are hurting due to being rejected, abused, unappreciated, betrayed, etc. Give credit to the proper culprits...Love has shouldered the blame for far too long.

Disappointed hopes

He was, to me, the taunting line on the horizon: beckoning travelers forward, promising wonders untold, visions  unimagined and experiences unrealized.
Yet, just ever so out of reach.

Try as I might, his heart was securely ensconced between hurt and distrust; long ago, it was locked away and the key disposed of.

Appreciation

We took everything the other dished out, ugly, grotesque and monstrous, and dared to love each other because of, in spite of those things.