The Idea-smithy

Not a good time. Not a good mood. December always gets me down. Even though the fabulousness of my life must make me seem like a crank for complaining. It’s too many people, too many expectations, too much to consider and keep track of.
They say a man (person) is known by the company he keeps. [...]

If I had to write a PostSecret card, it would be a photograph of this old house and caligraphed over it in red ink,
I loved you only because I didn’t think I deserved any better.
Sometimes, telling a secret can be cathartic. I hope.

I had a wisdom tooth extraction earlier this week. Don’t haha (or heehaw) at me, you merciless thugs! Everyone I’ve been talking about this, before the appointment, has insisted on regaling me with their own horror stories.
My cheeks swelled up like a chipmunk’s and then someone came and pinched my cheeks affectionately! - @shaaqT (Facebook friends, [...]

I love you
is real hard to say. And so is
You hurt me.
But the hardest by far, is
I forgive you.
because it actually says both of the above.
If love be the knife you willingly hold to yourself to feed the life-blood to your beloved, then their betrayal is the rubbing of salt into the wounds. How then, [...]

If there is a God,
then why did he give me wings and a cage?

I thought I’d die if I didn’t have you
And I very nearly threw away my life when you asked me to
Just about but not quite
Because in the last minute, some shred of something pulled me back
What was it?
Self-preservation? Self-respect? Dignity? Sensibility?
You called it selfishness
I’m so glad that I’m a selfish person
It saved my life
That I [...]

The water of indifference
wears away even
the ragged cliffs of pain
~O~O~O~O~
Walls crumble
I watch the dust fly
Even my anger cannot defy time
~O~O~O~O~
Pain was power
to create new life, after
The bigger magic is that even that ends