Your voice prophetic Your spirit magnetic Goth boy fire Your energy electric I look you in your eyes Like I know your pain Toxins flood your veins Songs of guilt and shame Trying not to cry too loud Weeping in silence Searing pain in your gut Words to […]
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Eyes wide open Eyes wide shut You look deep within Extending your trust Opening my mind to new culture To the zeitgeist of the moment Grounding me in the present Rooted in the path we have chosen I call you gothic angel You are a protege of prophecy […]
This is raw emotion Barely processed reflexive emotion Feelings swimming amidst violent cliffs Lurching in divergent directions Seeking cathartic expression Seeking connection We loved you We loved you fiercely If only you could have felt the joy of you The humility and vulnerability The visceral presence of connection […]
I made this pilgrimage I came to the sea seeking recovery To this convening of addicts Trying to change our patterns Trying to recover It is only April The ocean is still cold But I walked into her arms three times yesterday I waded in with the dawn […]
You were a sacrifice An offering from the sacred A voice for a generation Prophet of liberation Prophet of yearning I ride by this river Feeling subterranean vibrations This water helps my spirit cry River tears of absolution and restitution Black shadow resonates On the surface of sacred […]
Blue light ricochets through water Coursing like seismic electricity Invoking cosmic destiny Molding a conjecture with prophecy This visceral manifestation of what I feel for you You are my sponsees My karmic proteges Conjuring inner magic Reverberating like kinetic static Through these waters of synergy I believe […]
I come through sand Reverberating with karmic potential I come for the sun Rising from beyond the ocean We are survivors of addiction A ruthless affliction Gathered to share our stories Staying clean one day at a time Our disease is insidious Brutal and persistent We […]
I sit by the water—I came here to write….The river ebbs and flows and pulsates with energy…It reverberates with the power to sustain life and the power to take it… I came to write about my mind—to write about the social construct known as bipolar disorder…This diagnosis has been an […]
I am evolving and deepening my awareness… With the shackles of addiction in remission I live in gratitude and in joy… I live on the manic depressive spectrum—tending towards states of hypomania and mania… Eliminating the toxicity of substances of abuse has helped me stabilize, but the powers within that […]
here i am–humbly and blissfully imperfect–reckoning with harm i have caused by striving to be accountable and doing work to transform…i am decentering self–dismantling the illusion of my willful power to control the world around me…this is my attempt at surrender–and her matrix of liberation is opening new vistas of […]
its hard to be humble when the energy and adrenaline of an action are racing through my veins–hard when my brain’s potent dopamine clinic is flying high on overdrive…its hard to be humble when visions of fractals or sacred geometry meet my eyes–leaving me feeling particularly empowered to participate in […]
I am always looking for magic–seeking the dilation of time, the deepest enunciation of truth, the most exquisite attenuation of the dancer’s fierce extension…I am grateful for all of these moments–grateful for the magic of the moon and the sun…I am grateful for the serenity of silence and I […]