Blind

It was a halo silk that seemed to float in mid-air like a cobweb caged in a darkness that became opaque, impenetrable, tangible as it wrapped it shroud around the last breath of life that emanated from this statue...   

An amber colour bubble little up in my hands, revealing the dancing shapes of the walls of nature that wept tears of dampness, the fallen ceilings of the granite sky, the dilapidated doors that led into the hearts of proud trunks coated in leafy curtains, and yet they remained invisible – hidden by the ghostly blackness the covered the world…

Dusk poured over the street in a wreath of liquid fire, with tongues of scorching topaz and flaming amber licking at the sky, whilst an orchestra of black melodies followed closely, waiting to engulf the fire in a splash of inky darkness. 

Pain

Pain comes in all forms: the small tinges, the little bit of soreness, the random pain – the normal pain we live with every day.  

Then there's the kind of pain you can't ignore. A level of pain so great that it blocks out anything else, that makes the rest of the world fade away, until all you can think about is how much you hurt.

Pain. We anaesthetize, ride it out, embrace it, ignore it. And for some of us the best way to manage pain is to just push through it. 

There are no solutions. No easy answers. You just breathe deep and wait for it to subside. 

Most of the time pain can be managed. But sometimes the pain gets to you when you least expect it. It hits way below the belt and doesn't let up. 

Pain. You just have to fight through because the truth is you can't run away from it. 

And life will always make more.

Winter Wonderland (Part 2)

Duality

Good and bad are two sides of the same coin.

Duality of human nature is necessary to create harmony.

Celebrate the darker side within you, it is the darker side that gives sheen to your personality.

Branches

There is good and there is evil. Right and wrong.

And if we're blessed with wisdom, then there are glimpses between the cracks of each where light streams through.

Sunlight filters through the branches of evil. We wait in silence for these times when sense can be made, when meaningless existence comes into focus, and our purpose presents itself.

And if we have the strength to be honest, then what we find there, staring back at us, is our own reflection, bearing witness to the duality of life.

And each one of us is capable of both the dark and the light, of good and evil, of either, of all.

And destiny, while marching ever in our direction, can be rerouted by the choices we make.

By the love we hold onto and the promises we keep.