Poetic Musings

I Hate The Grind

Of being on the edge of losing everything. Of asking the gas station for water to help the tree. Of being told to live out of my car to qualify. Of waiting for the tide to turn for or more against me.

For when you are ousted from your home due to another person’s merely personally preferential proclivities, getting back into a realm of security in this economy is much harder than it seems or should be.

Compositions

Saving Grace

Loneliness can drive a person to settle for less than what they believe.

Should I wait another life’s time – and possibly more – for you to recognize me?

Extreme frustration and railing at the waste makes me want to pound a tree.

Having been with people who did not appreciate my worth – at least now I can learn to shrug off that baggage.

But I ache to know what we can be if we brave shrugging off ego’s insanity.

Compositions

Beyond Risk

Being with him was a concept I was definitely open to.

Not because of his status, but because of what within him had driven him to be there.

But, I freaked out and made a fool of myself.

Duress does not suit well like a well-tailored dress.

I guess I was just afraid that our story would play out to where he wouldn’t be capable of being as strong as I have been.

And if we were going to be in the public eye, I didn’t want to have my resultant grief laid wide open for people to stick their fingers in it.

I got ahead of myself, playing out a tangent of possibility according to past negative trends.

It was because he was so important to me – and for once I realized that I needed to be as equally, if not more so, important to him.

Yet, what was his fault was that he did not reach across the space and time divide to show me how these fences can mend.

That had been in the second dream, you see.

In that one, he helped me fix my family’s gate along a forest lane, and told me that he loved me.

Stream of Thought

Independence

We are told here in America by media and subliminal marketing, by the viral thinking implanted into our society to keep us buying into Capitalism for continous relining of the obscenely rich’s pockets, that it is preferable that we each “go it alone” rather than investing with family and community.

Unfortunately, my open-heart-to-bonding-and-sharing has had the above messaging negatively reinforced by experiencing loss, grief, and betrayal in dispraportionately large amounts, making it seem that “being on my own” is the main key to my remnant family’s survival.

Stream of Thought

Back Then

When I saw Vanilla Sky, the movie’s thematics gave me insights not necessarily related, but deep into my then husband’s psychology.

I began realizing that certain effects from his accidents were becoming irreversible and I cried as the harsh truth of this overtook me.

It was never an option for me to leave him – especially because we now had children. I was “in it to win it” for him and for our family.

I thought to myself, “I guess this is life. We don’t get to choose how it happens, but we can do our best to make it happy.”

I reached deep into my core reserves to continue mustering determination’s bravery.