dear solitude
how dare you challenge this heart made thick with strength how dare you kick dust on the old fire where numbers once gathered how dare you force a lonely march…
Author: batesthink
elements
when i learned to love the skythe frozen wind when i learned to love the earthit’s constant reclamationof success and triesthe fruit of effortnever fully seen when sweat fell like…
the wild
the road we built thru thick and storm to tame the wild carving an impossible path taking an impossible oath to prove ourselves with force of nature to find and…
unprecedented bravery
i did live bravely before in that place i did not shrink back from pain or shame in that trying space i did not die there either the call that…
reluctant destruction
The most important changes in our lives begin with a deep, reluctant realization, followed by a deeper, more painful admission… that what is here, now, cannot continue as it is….
do not delay happiness
Do not delay happiness; all that is good and here is for you, now.
on the knife’s edge
There are few things I care deeply for. In this moment, those few are uncertain. My heart knows. My mind is ready to respond. The seconds tick away. Detachment is…
love without fear
Do not fear love. Fear these unholy bargains: your worth for their acceptance; your power for their approval; your truth for their stability. So, love without fear, as whole.
terrifying truth
I have discovered three terrifying truths in the darkest nights of my soul. Terrifying, because in our weakest, most vulnerable moments, these truths offer us the purest, most unbelievable bargain:…
brave blind
These words are incomplete. These ideas imperfect. Some penned in pleasure, others provoked by pain, they point to truths found by cold hands that refused to sit idle, but explored…