Spectrum
Down deep into the hidey-hole
The lines become transparent.
Prisms
What better reason than to love, rather than to destroy?
(Lips Like Sugar – Echo And The Bunnymen)
Taking Flight
Free as a bird that’s
No longer grounded,
Rising to sound of glory,
Pouring all into moments
Captured for eyes to wonder
With hope, optimism, and joy.
(Market And Black – Griffit James ft. Tennis)
Instability
Once disruption has occurred so many times in one’s life, navigating it becomes the expectation.
1:45pm
A red-and-swollen faced, hanging beer-bellied, shirt-off-in-long-boxerlike-shorts man staggers around outside and then into our hall, hazedly staring at doors while muttering to himself on the verge of blackout unconsciosness as he attempts to find the room that he belongs to.
(Spirits In The Material World – The Police)
The Spirit Realm
I dreamed that I was photographing a copse of trees blanketed by snow around their bases.
As I zoomed into a ground junction of trunks, a plump and large, light brown hawk walked right into my focus.
It kept looking at me through the lens as I struggled to make the camera capture images.
But the camera had moved to some advance mode, and I kept trying, scrambling backward, as the hawk began advancing.
I called out to my youngest to help get the camera working properly, desperate to record this strange and wonderful phenomena.
Surprisingly, the hawk did not fly away, and kept approaching – then turned into some form of lean wolf as I scrambled backward into human town territory.
Grubby people in a Dark Ages setting had their varied wild dog breeds tied next to them at multiple outdoor eating benches.
The wolf let came up to me and let me harness its muzzle – then turned into a hound to blend and protect me.
Memory’s Lane
The groove turned smooth and shallow becomes comfortable after the grit and rubble are paved. But there is no stone left to turn over…all is known and worn.
Sullen
An automatic remnant default response to the feeling of dejection.
“Howl’s Moving Castle”

“The Leaning Tree”

Zoom around…see the bridge?
“Lineup”

See the ducks gathered along the shore?
“Bespeckled”

“Entwined”

Zoom in to see the lovely green trunk moss.
(Sensitive Kind – J.J. Cale)
Unraveling Seams
I do not feel comfortable about anything right now.
I don’t like exposing my feelings when I do not feel that I am standing on solid ground.
“Solid ground” is a “reality” illusion based upon circumstances “going your way.”
When in a state of deconstruction, what one can count upon feels slippery.
(My Name Is Ruin – Gary Numan)
Heartache
The bruising made her shut down and avoid associated stimulus.
(Skelyton [Electro Swing] – Halloween Special)
Survival Instinct
The heart refuses to be buried, once it has found its purpose.
My Dream Man
Someone who wholly and fully aligns with who I am at the core. Someone who matches my values, honesty, and loyalty…
The Fire Within Me
Whenever it feels oppressed or suppressed, my love ignites to blast through walls and fly free.
High Born
It did not help that she was born to a queen who did not believe in dragons.
Wild Magic
The dragon inside hates feeling confined as if trapped within a prison.
It keeps bellowing in my mind while throwing its weight against internal barriers.
It has learned to stop flapping its wings so they no longer shred against caverns.
But, the fire of intention gathers for blasting my way through these chambers.
Rejection
It hurts in whatever form, which takes energy to recover from and down time for nursing wounds – an expenditure that I cannot afford right now.
So we look for housing that has some odds in our favor, and do not apply to the others that would waste labor.
The same can be said for applying for opportunities. They need to have around them the sense of right timing.
Whether in work or love, I do not venture where it seems that I may not be wanted.
When I feel vulnerable, my heart is just too tender.
That Da** Scammer
He followed my Instagram again last night, and when I blocked him, he reported my account to disrupt my service.
A**hole.
(Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis)
Cauterized
If I must be alone,
I must not wander:
No more searching
For hidden answers.
I must retract efforts,
Stay focused on self –
No longer reaching for
Heart’s eternal wealth.
Treading Water
The course I have had on Incomplete is due in December.
No more extensions are possible, and if I do not complete it, it likely jeopardizes my ability to finish my Bachelor’s degree.
Rules, policies, “academic progress.”
Do they truly consider it a judgement against personal abilities if continued risk of, and then prolonged homelessness, creates an external circumstantial exacerbation preventing a student’s followthrough?
With the economy such as it currently is, it seems like there should be more flex to the “rules.”
Muster
They say that if you want something, you should expand your abilities to achieve it. But sometimes what you want may be a delicate matter, and requires caution to navigate into best position.
The Self’s Collapse
This is my own story. I am unsure if others can relate. We are all underdogs here – though some would still debate.
Mind Games
It is, perhaps, an expensive luxury to have an “undisciplined” mind. However, having one that is too disciplined can also be a catecombed trap.
Used Goodie Bag
It contains the remnants of what once was “goodie.”
Now, say this five times fast.
(I’m Going Slightly Mad – Queen)
Wallace And Grommit
One Would Think
That I would be desperately combing the streets and pouring over the same ads yielding nothing until my eyes pop and bleed.
But, No.
I cannot afford to waste precious energy.
2 1/2 Months
I miss my freezer pizza, baked hot to dip into ranch – and the ability to make crunchy cookies!
Gratitude
We are successful here.
We can continue to be so.
“The Great Migration””

See the giant egret flying home to California?
What I Have
I must deem it “good enough.”
(More Human Than A Human – White Zombie)
“The PAIN!”
In the original Dune movie, surviving the test of pain prooves that you are human, rather than animal. So what does that make those of us continually trapped within pain’s suffering?
Distraction
If my family is unhappy, it is hard for me to concentrate. Being without a home exacerbates.
(Nothing Left To Say – Imagine Dragons)
“Neverending Cycle”
“I respected him.
Believed in him.
Trusted him
And he turned against me.”
(Wrecked – Imagine Dragons)
Psychic Broadcasting
Pain makes me emit energy in waves how I do not want to.
At what point will my neck and shoulder torsion just recallibrate?
