Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
The Stolen Child - William Butler Yeats
- Where dips the rocky highland
- Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
- There lies a leafy island
- Where flapping herons wake
- The drowsy water rats;
- There we've hid our faery vats,
- Full of cherries
- And of reddest stolen berrys.
- Come away, O human child!
- To the waters and the wild
- With a faery, hand in hand.
- For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
- Where the wave of moonlight glosses
- The dim gray sands with light,
- Far off by furthest Rosses
- We foot it all the night,
- Weaving olden dances
- Mingling hands and mingling glances
- Till the moon has taken flight;
- To and fro we leap
- And chase the frothy bubbles,
- While the world is full of troubles
- And anxious in its sleep.
- Come away, O human child!
- To the waters and the wild
- With a faery, hand in hand,
- For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
- Where the wandering water gushes
- From the hills above Glen-Car,
- In pools among the rushes
- That scarce could bathe a star,
- We seek for slumbering trout
- And whispering in their ears
- Give them unquiet dreams;
- Leaning softly out
- From ferns that drop their tears
- Over the young streams.
- Come away, O human child!
- To the waters and the wild
- With a faery, hand in hand,
- For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
- Away with us he's going,
- The solemn-eyed -
- He'll hear no more the lowing
- Of the calves on the warm hillside
- Or the kettle on the hob
- Sing peace into his breast,
- Or see the brown mice bob
- Round and round the oatmeal chest
- For he comes the human child
- To the waters and the wild
- With a faery, hand in hand
- From a world more full of weeping than he can understand
- (1886)
...
Have you ever wondered?
Why your ears are pointed, like an elf's?
Why your cheekbones are so high, casting such a dark shadow?
Why your bottom lip is so full, it appears to be swollen?
Why you have such horrible dreams every night?
It's because you're different.
All you must do is figure out why.
Why your ears are pointed, like an elf's?
Why your cheekbones are so high, casting such a dark shadow?
Why your bottom lip is so full, it appears to be swollen?
Why you have such horrible dreams every night?
It's because you're different.
All you must do is figure out why.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Fire and Ice.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost.
A notable poet.
One of my favorites.
The world will end someday.
Destroying life forms that still remain on it.
Apart from that.
Can we chose the way we die?
Is it our choice?
Does the way we act decide this for us?
Or is our path already laid out for us?
Will we die in the same way, regardless of our life's path?
Does the coming of others affect our certain demise?
Yes.
Each person's entrance and exit to our lives affects how our life will turn out.
They are supporting actors to your grand play.
The best play of your life, the greatest you will ever compose.
Choose your actors wisely.
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost.
A notable poet.
One of my favorites.
The world will end someday.
Destroying life forms that still remain on it.
Apart from that.
Can we chose the way we die?
Is it our choice?
Does the way we act decide this for us?
Or is our path already laid out for us?
Will we die in the same way, regardless of our life's path?
Does the coming of others affect our certain demise?
Yes.
Each person's entrance and exit to our lives affects how our life will turn out.
They are supporting actors to your grand play.
The best play of your life, the greatest you will ever compose.
Choose your actors wisely.
Love
What is love?
I constantly seek it.
I search for an answer.
Day by day.
How do you know when you've found it?
Is it obvious?
It may be.
All I know is that the search is endless.
But how can you love another if you do not love yourself?
I must find love.
But how?
I constantly seek it.
I search for an answer.
Day by day.
How do you know when you've found it?
Is it obvious?
It may be.
All I know is that the search is endless.
But how can you love another if you do not love yourself?
I must find love.
But how?
Psalm 51
Help me.
In order to help me, I must help you.
I am hurt myself.
Things are wrong with me.
I'm not perfect, and I never will be.
I can simply...be.
But allow me to assist you.
Be my guest.
Take a seat.
I am here for your every beck and call.
All that I want is to help you.
Will you love me for it?
Will you heal me as well?
In order to help me, I must help you.
I am hurt myself.
Things are wrong with me.
I'm not perfect, and I never will be.
I can simply...be.
But allow me to assist you.
Be my guest.
Take a seat.
I am here for your every beck and call.
All that I want is to help you.
Will you love me for it?
Will you heal me as well?
Death.
We are all capable of dying.
We will die.
It is inevitable.
Death creeps on.
We all have an expiration date.
When is yours?
We will die.
It is inevitable.
Death creeps on.
We all have an expiration date.
When is yours?
Time.
Time.
Tick, tock, goes the clock.
Always moving forward. Moving ahead. Regardless of whether you like it or not, whether it's convenient.
Why should time listen to anyone?
It is incapable of being commanded.
It simply does as it was created to do.
Goes on.
Tick, tock.
Tme.
I am moving forward.
Moving without time.
Simply going on.
As tme.
What do you do when your time is up?
Tick, tock, goes the clock.
Always moving forward. Moving ahead. Regardless of whether you like it or not, whether it's convenient.
Why should time listen to anyone?
It is incapable of being commanded.
It simply does as it was created to do.
Goes on.
Tick, tock.
Tme.
I am moving forward.
Moving without time.
Simply going on.
As tme.
What do you do when your time is up?
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Don't.
Don't be that girl. That girl who goes back continuously thinking every time will be different. I understand you miss him, and it's easier to breathe with him around but isn't it easier to smile when he's not breaking your heart, emotionally hurting you and talking to other girls. You don't deserve to be the back up. The person he drops whenever he feels like it. Don't be that girl. That girl who thinks each time he comes around he means what he says, and won't leave or hurt you again. Everyone knows he will. & you end up looking stupid in the end...again. I get it you're happier when he's texting you or cuddling with you, but aren't you happier when you're not crying all night because he's making you feel worthless. No one can tell you who to be, but don't be that girl. You're smarter then that girl, stronger then that girl. & you're worth a lot more then that girl.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Letters to No one.
Hey. Do you remember me? I guess it doesn't really matter. We were once so close. We shared everything. But all of that has faded now. We're strangers. At times I wish we could retain what we once had. But could it ever be the same again? I doubt it....nothing like what we've experienced could ever allow us to remain close.
Oh hi. Oh, you expected a warmer greeting? Why would you deserve one? The way that you treat me? Do you honestly think it's okay? I'm not going to be treated like some miniscule being, especially by you. If you claim I'm so important to you, maybe you should begin acting like it.
Life is so dull. Do you feel the ache in your bones? I feel it every day...
Hi, we've actually never had a real conversation. We've had a few friendly exchanges, but none of that really matters. We could be great friends. But I suppose most friendships whither away and die anyways.
Oh, I don't like you. Probably because I'm jealous.
Thank you for always being there for me. Even though I get completely bored of you sometimes. But let's face it-I get bored of everyone.
Why are humans so boring? Their thoughts seem to revolve around the same basic thought patterns. 3 dominant facets of their life. It's so boring, so similar. Why can't they break out of this shell and create something better? More interesting, more worthwhile? I dobt it can ever happen...
Why do you pretend to empathize with everyone so well, when you can't even figure yourself out? You may think you have it all going for you, but you don't. Good luck figuring it out by yourself.
How do you fake your smile so well? I wish I could do the same. But in life, there is no happiness. It all fades away. A whisper can make you happy as easily as sad, but no emotion is sustainable but pain.
I feel bad for all those who try to get close to me. It's detrimental in the end, for both of us. You should run as far as you can.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Fantastic. NaNoWriMo
He took a deep breath and sighed. He needed a walk. Time to contemplate his own life.
He lit a cigarette, hearing a fading saxophone in the distance as he walked. The moon was full, and the lights made shadows-shadows as dark as the endless turmoil in his mind.
He saw something in the distance. Distracted, he burnt his fingers on his failing cigarette. Lighting a new one, he inhaled deeply, feeling the relaxation. He exhaled, emitting a cloud of smoke that worked intricate patterns into the wind.
His shell was indeed hollow. He couldn't quite fill it. What was the solution? How could he fill it? He gazed deeply into the distance. Love. But how could he love anyone? When he didn't even love himself? He shouted into the abyss, letting out his anger and frustration. But it wasn't enough. He couldn't solve it. What was the purpose of his life?
He tried filling this hollowness he felt in his chest. Smoking worked at first, but smoke always mingled with the air quickly. He turned for companionship but he did not long for it as well. How could anyone understand what he felt? He felt a momentary respite when the bitter cold air slapped his face as he walked aimlessly on the path of life.
For the pain aided him. Brought him back to reality. But what reality was this? Where he could not truly feel the warmth of another? For a simple touch only lasted for so long. The emotional ties were what gave meaning. But who would want someone like him? A broken soul, a decommissioned soldier? He was unwanted. But he wanted more.
He lit a cigarette, hearing a fading saxophone in the distance as he walked. The moon was full, and the lights made shadows-shadows as dark as the endless turmoil in his mind.
He saw something in the distance. Distracted, he burnt his fingers on his failing cigarette. Lighting a new one, he inhaled deeply, feeling the relaxation. He exhaled, emitting a cloud of smoke that worked intricate patterns into the wind.
His shell was indeed hollow. He couldn't quite fill it. What was the solution? How could he fill it? He gazed deeply into the distance. Love. But how could he love anyone? When he didn't even love himself? He shouted into the abyss, letting out his anger and frustration. But it wasn't enough. He couldn't solve it. What was the purpose of his life?
He tried filling this hollowness he felt in his chest. Smoking worked at first, but smoke always mingled with the air quickly. He turned for companionship but he did not long for it as well. How could anyone understand what he felt? He felt a momentary respite when the bitter cold air slapped his face as he walked aimlessly on the path of life.
For the pain aided him. Brought him back to reality. But what reality was this? Where he could not truly feel the warmth of another? For a simple touch only lasted for so long. The emotional ties were what gave meaning. But who would want someone like him? A broken soul, a decommissioned soldier? He was unwanted. But he wanted more.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Thoughts.
When I was younger, my dad had a problem with substance abuse. He was an alcoholic. He turned to drinks as a way to better his life. He didn't realise the harm it was causing, not only to his health, but to others around him. My entire family felt the brunt of his habit. He didn't see the issue. Didn't see how it brought out his angry side. He would call my aunt disgusting for her cigarette addiction, not seeing the error in his own ways. Refusing to admit that he had a problem.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The Rape of Lucretia
LVII. One day when the young men were drinking at the house of Sextus Tarquinius, after a supper where they had dined with the son of Egerius, Tarquinius Conlatinus, they fell to talking about their wives, and each man fell to praising his wife to excess. Finally Tarquinius Conlatinus declared that there was no need to argue; they might all be sure that no one was more worthy than his Lucretia. "Young and vigorous as we are, why don't we go get out horses and go and see for ourselves what our wives are doing? And we will base our judgement on whatever we see them doing when their husbands arrive unannounced." Encouraged by the wine, "Yes, let's go!" they all cried, and they went on horseback to the city. Darkness was beginning to fall when they arrived and they went to the house of Conlatinus. There, they found Lucretia behaving quite differently from the daughters-in-law of the King, whom they had found with their friends before a grand feast, preparing to have a night of fun. Lucretia, even though it was night, was still working on her spinning, with her servants, in the middle of her house. They were all impressed by Lucretia's chaste honor. When her husband and the Tarquins arrived, she received them, and her husband, the winner, was obliged to invite the king's sons in. It was then that Sextus Tarquinius was seized by the desire to violate Lucretia's chastity, seduced both by her beauty and by her exemplary virtue. Finally, after a night of youthful games, they returned to the camp.LVIII. Several days passed. Sextus Tarquinius returned to the house of Conlatinus, with one of his companions. He was well received and given the hospitality of the house, and maddened with love, he waited until he was sure everyone else was asleep. Then he took up his sword and went to Lucretia's bedroom, and placing his sword against her left breast, he said, "Quiet, Lucretia; I am Sextus Tarquinius, and I have a sword in my hand. If you speak, you will die." Awakening from sleep, the poor woman realized that she was without help and very close to death. Sextus Tarquinius declared his love for her, begging and threatening her alternately, and attacked her soul in every way. Finally, before her steadfastness, which was not affected by the fear of death even after his intimidation, he added another menace. "When I have killed you, I will put next to you the body of a nude servant, and everyone will say that you were killed during a dishonorable act of adultery." With this menace, Sextus Tarquinius triumphed over her virtue, and when he had raped her he left, having taken away her honor. Lucretia, overcome with sorrow and shame, sent messengers both to her husband at Ardea and her father at Rome, asking them each to come "at once, with a good friend, because a very terrible thing had happened." Spurius Lucretius, her father, came with Publius Valerius, the son of Volesus, and Conlatinus came with Lucius Junius Brutus; they had just returned to Rome when they met Lucretia's messenger. They found Lucretia in her chamber, overpowered by grief. When she saw them she began to cry. "How are you?" her husband asked. "Very bad," she replied, "how can anothing go well for a woman who has lost her honor? There are the marks of another man in your bed, Conlatinus. My body is greatly soiled, though my heart is still pure, as my death will prove. But give me your right hand in faith that you will not allow the guilty to escape. It was Sextus Tarquinius who returned our hospitality with enmity last night. With his sword in his hand, he came to take his pleasure for my unhappiness, but it will also be his sorrow if you are real men." They promised her that they would pursue him, and they tried to appease her sorrow, saying that it was the soul that did wrong, and not the body, and because she had had no bad intention, she did no wrong. "It is your responsibility to see that he gets what he deserves," she said, "I will absolve myself of blame, and I will not free myself from punishment. No woman shall use Lucretia as her example in dishonor." Then she took up a knife which she had hidden beneath her robe, and plunged it into her heart, collapsing from her wound; she died there amid the cries of her husband and father.LIX. Brutus, leaving them in their grief, took the knife from Lucretia's wound, and holding it all covered with blood up in the aid, cried, "By this blood, which was so pure before the crime of the prince, I swear before you, O gods, to chase the King Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, with his criminal wife and all their offspring, by fire, iron, and all the methods I have at my disposal, and never to tolerate Kings in Rome evermore, whether of that family of any other."
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Preface
Welcome to my blog.
Whenever I feel depressed, I am compelled to write. It serves as an outlet to express my thoughts. It helps me to cope.
I decided to make the switch from tumblr to an unknown blog.
Here my thoughts will continue.
Whenever I feel depressed, I am compelled to write. It serves as an outlet to express my thoughts. It helps me to cope.
I decided to make the switch from tumblr to an unknown blog.
Here my thoughts will continue.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
On emotion.
Happiness - do you know how it feels? Can you sense the warmth as it wraps around you? Consumes your pain? Bringing you to happy days.
I cannot recall this emotion. Will I ever?
Two emotions dominate my mind.
Sadness. Sadness of what I’ve been through. What I’ve experienced. Lived through…barely.
The sadness has left visible marks on my body. Do they fade away? Eventually. But the emotional scars remain inevitably.
And anger. You cannot believe the anger I have experienced. Seen firsthand. Felt. And it has left its mark within me. There is no way to remove it….
I cannot fight anger. I am as powerless as you think you are.
How nice would it be - to smile and mean it. I cannot retain the feeling of happiness. It is a façade. I wish I could do it….I cannot.
How can I love when I do not love myself? It isn’t possible.
I am the worst sort of person - a monster, almost. So many people deserve my respect, affection, caring. But I am unable to give it. I am completely apathetic towards life in general.
Can words describe me? Should you even try? I pray you not to. You will fall in a deeper hole than you thought there was.
You cannot escape my doom once you have entered….
I wish you the best.
I cannot recall this emotion. Will I ever?
Two emotions dominate my mind.
Sadness. Sadness of what I’ve been through. What I’ve experienced. Lived through…barely.
The sadness has left visible marks on my body. Do they fade away? Eventually. But the emotional scars remain inevitably.
And anger. You cannot believe the anger I have experienced. Seen firsthand. Felt. And it has left its mark within me. There is no way to remove it….
I cannot fight anger. I am as powerless as you think you are.
How nice would it be - to smile and mean it. I cannot retain the feeling of happiness. It is a façade. I wish I could do it….I cannot.
How can I love when I do not love myself? It isn’t possible.
I am the worst sort of person - a monster, almost. So many people deserve my respect, affection, caring. But I am unable to give it. I am completely apathetic towards life in general.
Can words describe me? Should you even try? I pray you not to. You will fall in a deeper hole than you thought there was.
You cannot escape my doom once you have entered….
I wish you the best.
The mind.
What composes a person’s mindset? What makes someone more optimistic than another?
My mind is a swirl of dark thoughts. My impending death looms in the back corner of my mind, ready to be called up at any moment.
Why do I continue living, when the happy man dies? Where is the justice in this?
There is none.
Life is a game of chance. You must draw the proper cards to continue living, or dying.
Life throws curve balls - it’s up to you whether or not you catch them. Can you continue on your path after learning someone’s dark secret, or will it affect you in a major way?
How much do our thoughts, words, interactions affect others? Can a relationship with one person change your entire viewpoint on the world? Make you question the logic and reasoning behind everything that you know?
Or can a secret, so well kept, haunt your dreams at night, keeping you awake?
What would you say to a victim? To someone who went through the unimaginable? How can you possibly begin to comprehend all of the suffering and pain?
These people, namely I, cannot tell you. Cannot let you know. Cannot speak of what has happened. How can we? Tell you the past? Let you inside?
You cannot imagine our pain. We have been affected forever - do you really want to take that knowledge upon your shoulder? It will change you. You do not deserve that.
For your safety you must stay away. It isn’t selfish - in fact, it’s the most unselfish thing you can imagine.
My mind is a swirl of dark thoughts. My impending death looms in the back corner of my mind, ready to be called up at any moment.
Why do I continue living, when the happy man dies? Where is the justice in this?
There is none.
Life is a game of chance. You must draw the proper cards to continue living, or dying.
Life throws curve balls - it’s up to you whether or not you catch them. Can you continue on your path after learning someone’s dark secret, or will it affect you in a major way?
How much do our thoughts, words, interactions affect others? Can a relationship with one person change your entire viewpoint on the world? Make you question the logic and reasoning behind everything that you know?
Or can a secret, so well kept, haunt your dreams at night, keeping you awake?
What would you say to a victim? To someone who went through the unimaginable? How can you possibly begin to comprehend all of the suffering and pain?
These people, namely I, cannot tell you. Cannot let you know. Cannot speak of what has happened. How can we? Tell you the past? Let you inside?
You cannot imagine our pain. We have been affected forever - do you really want to take that knowledge upon your shoulder? It will change you. You do not deserve that.
For your safety you must stay away. It isn’t selfish - in fact, it’s the most unselfish thing you can imagine.
Did you truly thing you could cure me? Save me from myself? You thought you could take my burden so I wouldn’t have to?
You were wrong.
This will never leave me. It’s ingrained into my flesh. I cannot remove it.
Maybe if you take away my limbs you will find my pain.
Maybe I’ll take them away for you.
You were wrong.
This will never leave me. It’s ingrained into my flesh. I cannot remove it.
Maybe if you take away my limbs you will find my pain.
Maybe I’ll take them away for you.
I'm falling.
Falling. Into a deep pit of despair. I can only hope to find my way out.
I’m scratching, digging my nails into the wall. It’s smooth obsidian. I can’t dig my way upwards.
How can I get out?
Will someone help me?
Will you?
I’m scratching, digging my nails into the wall. It’s smooth obsidian. I can’t dig my way upwards.
How can I get out?
Will someone help me?
Will you?
Sunday, October 7, 2012
And all she ever wanted was to be loved.
But no one would give her that one wish.
She went through her days as a permanent stranger. Ignored. Disrespected.
Every night in her room she would cry to herself, sobbing, cutting. The only thing she knew how to do.
She hid the physical scars under sleeves. The emotional ones, under a smile. Her parents never knew. No one knew.
One day she decided to take her life. She went to the nearest pharmacy by school to purchase enough drugs to overdose.
When she returned home, a chat message from a boy in her class was displayed on her computer. A simple hello saved her life. She thought things would look up. For once in her life, she was right.
The world continued to spin.
She went through her days as a permanent stranger. Ignored. Disrespected.
Every night in her room she would cry to herself, sobbing, cutting. The only thing she knew how to do.
She hid the physical scars under sleeves. The emotional ones, under a smile. Her parents never knew. No one knew.
One day she decided to take her life. She went to the nearest pharmacy by school to purchase enough drugs to overdose.
When she returned home, a chat message from a boy in her class was displayed on her computer. A simple hello saved her life. She thought things would look up. For once in her life, she was right.
The world continued to spin.
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