Thursday, May 10, 2012

Nervous

Whoa, two more weeks! Still denying everything of course.
I really have to hand it to my dad, he's been pushing me so well with this. I still definitely am not independent in most senses. Without his help, I'd probably be so behind on everything. The fact that he paid for the shopping last weekend, seriously; how am I going to provide like that for my children? Thanks God for giving me this family.

God I'm so nervous, I'm always in a haze of denial of everything I do. All I think about is song lyrics and cigarette smoke burning out of my lungs from no where.

I love my drives back from work at 5 am, right before the crack of dawn when it's still dark, damp, and sleep deprived.

I'll have to tell my brother, in case he thinks that everything he gives me I treat with indifference, that honestly, I appreciate those drives back. Since I was 19 working from the Fords location, these shifts he gives me are helpful financially, but more so mentally. Maybe it's dealing with drunk 20 something belligerents, but moreso it's the red bull fueled feeling afterwards, when the work is done and it's time to go home.

These thoughts culminated the last few days, as the wind blows through my shirt into my chest, as dawn signals that the fun is over, that I'm glad to feel alive.

Which says a lot brother, because honestly, though you may think I give the world a facade of my fake innocent smile, that I'm internally just not kind...it's not that, it's just that I don't feel much, though the person I used to be before that numbness was actually in earnest, kind.

I think it's because I'm spoiled and not used to not having what I want. But now it's more like I don't know what I want because I've never went hungry.

This is a bad reason to go to the Peace Corps maybe? No
No, I don't believe that. My reasons are fine, I'm going to suffer and be strong. Suffer maybe a bad term for it, but in the end, I want that harshness. Like tobacco scarring my throat, let my heart burn until it hardens into a film that will block every other damn impurity. Wasting that bit of pure blood flow so I can handle the small fries. I don't think it works that way... but still, it's what I'll go for.

I don't know if I ever wrote this, I certainly expressed this...I asked God when I was 18 for New Years to make me suffer...for 10 years specifically, so I can deal with everything wrong in the world as a general principle by the time I have kids they will think I'm super man, like my Dad.
Except my dad was infallible morally...I am not infallible, I already fell from whatever Prince top grace I was perched on.

There it is...was, will be. It's my best friend's birthday tomorrow, this will be a foot note to myself because I have to guess it all the time, now I'll know.
God bless you all.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Dervish


swirl into a Dervish dance, from there you will find God's Romance
Within your heart you will find your rhythmic beat, chiming to the gleam of your beloved's feverish heat
Love, love, love
That is the Name of Everything, from the Dome of Rock to her ankle ring
Hate, hate, hate
That is the broken glass that held your morning drink, wasted upon Hellfire's Boiling Sink
Subahanallah

The Tenderest Branches


Aye the tenderest branches within the heart
Love veins
                pumping adrenaline rain
                                                    from the start
So I can breathe a little ecstasy...no more
What was then, has festered and tore

The tree within me stands shaken
It's fruitless leaves far forsaken
For what once grew anew
             dissipated along with the faded morning dew

What is left when the sun has dried me up?
Left the soul rotten and forgotten until the mind begins to corrupt?
The answer is the aching sighs of seashells made...
                                                                            from where emptiness lies
Do you hear them whispering?
Sounding
               gentle hello
                                   goodbyes
The volume of echoes low and paper thin
Sensitive cold long old and tapering

Jessica's Morning


I walked the morn with a sleepy daze

Eager bird yawlers pitching bright serenades

The light lit waters reflecting deep golden rays

Creeping in the beauty of my lasting wandering days


Thursday, April 12, 2012

Thoughts today

God I'm tired
I do this to myself and I'm sorry
Not because the world is against me
Not because I have someone to blame
I'm accountable to only God
And no one is accountable to me

God, I'm done with this
I forget to pray, or don't pray
It's like climbing a mountain
It's beautiful at the top, I can sleep at the summit and watch the Heavens circle me
But it's so easy to just fall off...and then I must climb up again.
I know, this is the worst type of comparison to give to it, because it makes me not want to climb..but how must I climb
To get out of this tepid water, this dank air, this...filth that I call my state of mind.

God, what's next? Where do I go
I am off again to a new world, a world that has less to take, and more to breathe
But here am I, running away from these feelings that will never get vanquished, never get validated, so I can put up a mask or even more difficult, try to calm my spirits down.

I love my Lord, I fear my Lord, though maybe I care too much about myself to let those thoughts light.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Monday, April 2, 2012

Growing Old

No one wants to grow old
to watch the sun fade from gold
no one wants to be told
that everything they love will eventually lay cold

So let us rise with this morning light
Let us shine and remember to fight
For everything within our sight
Solidly grasped, snug and tight