Off He Goes

Playing constantly in my mind tonight...

Know a man, his face seems pulled and tense

like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds

so i approach with tact

suggest that he should relax

but he's always moving much too fast

said he'll see me on the flipside

on this trip he's taken for a ride

he's been taking too much on

there he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes

there he goes...

he's yet to come back 

but i've seen his picture

it doesn't look the same up on the rack

we go way back

i wonder about his insides

its like his thoughts are too big for his size

he's been taken... where, i don't know?

off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope

and there he goes...

and now i rub my eyes, for he has returned

seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned

for he still smiles... 

and he's still strong

nothing's changed, but the surrounding bullshit that has grown

and now he's home

and we're laughing like we always did

my same old, same old friend

until a quarter-to-ten

i saw the strain creep in

he seems distracted and i know just what is gonna happen next

before his first step

he's off again

The Walk Everyone Has To Walk

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I walked a mile with Pleasure;

She chatted all the way;

But left me none the wiser

For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow,

And ne’er a word said she;

But, oh! The things I learned from her,

When sorrow walked with me.

-Robert Browning Hamilton

Pretentious?

Solitude my companion. Loneliness my fear.

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This. I like.

The Difference You Make

"When I am with you, we stay up all night.

When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

Praise God for those two insomnias!

And the difference between them.” 

― Rumi

When Giving Is Not Giving

When we meet someone who owes us thanks, it will immediately occur to us. How often we can meet someone where the debt is on our side, and we do not give it a thought?

 - Goethe