A stranger, I walked into the rooms, scared, hurting, terrified to come, expecting failure in due course, like immediately. It felt different, though, warmer, like hope lurked, flirting around my chair. Like love — and I grew to believe you […]
Continue reading »The Gift or the Wrappings?
Silk cocoons tediously unwound yield strong fiber. Protected promised glory, though, does not survive. We try to save appearances, protect armoured covering we’ve constructed to withstand life’s onslaught. Keeping up appearances, though, maintains the worthless shell, leaves promised life beyond […]
Continue reading »I’ll NEVER Tell!
No! No! No! No! No! Not now, not ever! I’ve told you muck to nauseate a buzzard! I’ve dredged up all the sins, the shame, the crimes, the wrongs since when I was a tot, you’ve got enough to sentence […]
Continue reading »Sought and Found
I found him! I win! Clever, how hidden he was, out in the open where I thought I’d looked but like those puzzles when words are secluded in random letters in plain sight but darned near impossible to spot! You […]
Continue reading »The Greatest Possession
Cling to the thought that, in God’s hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have — the key to life and happiness for others. (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 124) Humiliation, shame, rage — hurling dung on the hopes of family, treacherous dealing […]
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