What is my birthright?
Is it like a Copyright?
Once you stole my soul
But never could you keep it
I found it under my skin
Month: June 2020
DRINK DEEP
Journey
With me my friend,
I will take you into
Dry places you have never been,
Show you
How to
Drink deep from the fountain of life
That springs eternally
In the depths of
Your soul
#FOWC. Empirical
FOWC with Fandango — Empirical
“EMPIRICAL. EMPIRICAL. Bah!”
Dan spat out his words. What the hell did science know about anything! Oh yeah. Two and two make four. But it doesn’t know who’s knocking on my door! Yeah, it might be Julie, and what does science know about things of the heart. That bloody Julie had let him down. Broken his heart. Now they were just a statistic. Well his heart didn’t feel like a statistic. It felt bloody awful.
He knew all about statistics, did Dan. Did it at University. It all felt like the Golden Age then. Nights out with the lads, partying, girls. He’d not had much to do with girls before, and was ready for a few mad flings. That was where he’d first met Julie. She seemed nice enough. From a “good” family. Titled, no less. He was taken in. But he had a lot to learn, and one thing was, don’t believe a girl when she’s drunk. Promised him the earth, she did. And he took it. Right there and then. The earth moved. He saw stars.
Not long after that, “I’m pregnant.” And that was another statistic. But it was a bloody world shaking thing to have happened. Then, the next shocker, “I don’t know whose it is. But it might be yours.”
Suddenly Dan did not feel himself to be in the Golden Age.
“What you gonna do?” He shot at her.
“Dunno,” she said. “I’ll be letting you know.”
And off she walked.
That had been four years ago. And he was still waiting for the knock on his door. Was that a statistic too?
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WRITTEN FOR WORD OF THE DAY
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/zoo-3/
Beth had never been to a ZOO before. In fact she had never done very much before, in all her ten years on this earth. But that was the point really. Was she even on this earth? She presumed she must be. Her feet felt the ground beneath her. But somehow or other, other people felt like aliens to her. They hardly spoke the same language as her. It really was as if they inhabited a different world.
It was the school trip that finally made her feel she had some connection to something. She looked at the animals in their cages, and she knew how they felt. Or she thought she did. Caged up. They were all so beautiful. Each animal in its own way. So sad that they had to be caged up. They should be roaming free.
But Beth was caged up too. Maybe that was why she felt herself to be in an alien world. Caged up inside herself. If only she could be set free. She thought and thought and thought. Maybe one day she would be.
LOVE GIVES ALL
Blood red ground
Springs eternal life
Birthed through suffering
I will not
Fly from pain
That speaks of love
Love becomes vulnerable
Seeking not self
But giving all
IMAGES FLOATING
Where does language go
When you do not have clear sight
Images floating
ETERNAL SUN
Searching for the light
I found the eternal sun
Never will life die
3TC#282 EARTH’S SADNESS
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/three-things-challenge-282/
Morning dawns kisses
Gently wet garden
Holding night’s tears
Who can determine
What Nature’s conversation
Is saying today
Yet our hearts
Join as one
With earth’s sadness
EARTH’S WOMB
Earth’s womb
Gives birth to joy
But first are labour pains
And the anguish of souls in the dark
Crying
Out woe
But soon there will be a new dawn
And new life will appear
Hold onto hope
Keep faith