Hide-And-Seek

Hide-And-Seek

Restless soul,
            Restless soul,
                        Where do you wander?
Come back to me,
           Come back to me,
                     So I won't have to be alone.
You call to me,
           So far away,
                      That I can never find you.
I do not know the secret ways,
         To paths so old and overgrown.
Restless soul,
          Restless soul,
                    Where do you wander?
                                I can vaguely taste the hint of freedom.
                    I'm too weary now to find you.

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Daydreaming

I love to daydream. It's one of my favorite things to do. It's not just for kids who are bored of listening to their teachers yammer on about things that they won't have an interest in for another 15 years.  *cough* I should have paid more attention in school f.y.i. I could be killing it in Trivia Crack. (It's an app if you don't know. Everyone should download it.)

At any rate.  It's a nice way to escape the mundane and boring life I have.  I've been on so many adventures...such fun.  It came to me that I should be writing these down. They are a form of story after all.  Heck, sometimes I daydream about my actual stories.

I won't write them down of course, that would be the smart thing to do, and that's one of the many things I'm not...wait what? Did I just insult myself?

Speaking of writing...remember when I said I might have jinxed myself? (Jinxety jinx.) I totally did! Haven't written a darn thing since that post. It's very frustrating to be me sometimes.  So much potential shriveling away.

The problem with daydreaming is sometimes they're just too good and I don't want to come back to reality.  The real world is a miserable place.

Oh and remember when I said I was making changes? (Cha cha chaaaaanges!) Got too busy daydreaming about what I'd rather be doing to sort out my sh*t.

Apparently to be productive I need to stay away from Netflix and daydreams. *sigh*

Shadows

Shadows

I thought I was done looking for you,
But the sun came to light the shadow of your memory.
The wind came to carry the ghost of your voice to my ears.
For an instant you were here and my heart leapt to greet you.

I miss those moments,
I long for the realness of them again,
But time is a greedy thing and takes everything for itself.

We all become shadows in another person's life,
...if we're lucky.
We could get swallowed up and swept away to be forgotten instead.
A fate worse than being banished to oblivion.
At least someone would have cared enough to send us there.

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Checking in. Making changes.

I think that it's important every so often to check in with myself.  To make sure that I'm staying on track with my goals.  Guess what?  I've done absolutely garbage with this year so far.  Normally I'd just give up and say "next year I'll do better", but I've still got time to make the most of 2016!  (Have I mentioned I'm a quitter?)

So, my plan is to schedule out my time.  I need that structure otherwise I'll do nothing but watch Netflix.  I've mentioned my addiction to Netflix here: Netflix: How it turned me into a procrastinator

I need to figure out what it is that I really want to do.  I know that I want to blog more. I've got a lot of things that I'd like to share. I don't want to go m.i.a. like usual and then come back yammering on about how I want to be more consistent. It's a bad habit that I always seem to fall into.

Part of the problem is that I'm all over the place...mentally.  I'm a very restless person and flit from one thing to the other, so the topics that I want to write about are a mish mash of randomness. Though that isn't necessarily a bad thing in my opinion.  

So that's my plan for today.  I'm going to pick out things that I want to go over and set myself a schedule.  Hopefully by next week I'll be sorted out.

 

The Gift

The Gift

Every time I see you fading,
I reach for your smile and capture your face.
I wish I could hold you in my mind,
But it isn't my place to take you.

      You are a simple joy in life.
      A small gift left to ground me.
      You don't know the magic you possess,
      Or how you've found a way to calm me.

I finish and add to our conversations,
These peaceful moments between us.

       I'm worried that I've made you into someone you are not.
       I seem to do that a lot. 

The difference is,
I'd wait for you if you told me to.

**Through the Veil is available for purchase on Amazon, Barns & Noble and CreateSpace.**