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The screen My opium A game during my break An episode of something to relax Playing to forget Reading headlines to pass the time Flicking through photos out of curiosity Liking posts to feel part of a community I can finally soothe myself But can I self-soothe? In order to self-soothe does the comfort need… Continue reading Media is the opium of the masses

My life goal Self-sufficiency Take care of myself by myself Lean on myself Ask for nothing It goes a long way Through splitting Me my hurt my keen awareness my analysis my plan to make it better again Constantly working on it Constantly working on me Everything is there to decode and understand I just… Continue reading Self-sufficient

No words Just sounds Sounds disconnected to words Meanings loading them making them matter making them powerful Crushing my voice Interfering with my sound My voice is part of my body not my mind which is also inside my body but an entity of its own My voice is not only an instrument but an… Continue reading Voice

The plus The minus The movement from the baseline to the plus-line The things we need to have value Our organic starting point naked valueless seemingly neutral The tabula rasa  separate from what came before what is around us Our immediate imprint Branding after birth Strapped into a vehicle on auto-pilot When you are old… Continue reading Valued

Writing in prose would make it more real it sits better I feel safer in airy verse Maybe I will get through the back way The year from hell is over A new year of change has begun Probably not too different at all Both completely changed A year of truth and transparency It hurt… Continue reading Double Standard Compassion

Interpretation Viewpoint Perspective People’s triggers Where to be compassionate  Where to let go When to laugh at something When to be angry How much to expect and how much to ask for When to separate and when to reconcile How much can I actually understand before compromising my own self-worth? Diplomacy Meaning double eyed in… Continue reading Perspectives

Saying no to control to protect to make something wrong or right to set a boundary to expose our desires When the no is nullified When our no is not accepted When we need to accept its unacceptance When we do not When no has no authority anymore The bully still strikes The rapist still… Continue reading No

When you go to a place and realise where you came from When you join a group and know that your thoughts were also had by others When you had a niggle and a feeling and then you read about it somewhere expressed so clearly and officially When the light goes on and you realised how… Continue reading Contextualised

What we have is as deep as it gets When we are not threatened we forget its worth Maybe we need the conflicts to see what we have Threat, enemy, war, fear, division give us the boundaries to ourselves to know why we are worth being alive know why we must flee transform integrate learn… Continue reading The circle line

On Monday I was riding my bicycle down a side street, because they are safer than main streets, when someone opened their car door at massive speed directly onto my foot. The corner of the blue car door was folded upwards, like a page of a book being marked. I was knocked off my bike,… Continue reading Starting off the week with a bang