My face is swollen. I stumble to the mirror. It’s 5:00 a.m. Puffy eyes, enlarged nose. My eyes still red from the night before, after the news; my Father’s cancer has returned. A world in chaos, elections, Coronavirus. And then, a five month long battle, keeping my dad alive from an agressive kind of cancer, Acute […]
“You are loved.” The morning breaks with the foundation of all strength, the whisper through the night, the promise of a life; full, captivating, beautiful. And I hear its sound through the struggling trees, through the lost dove, the aching needs of a world playing match-maker, blind dating with empty achievements… Worthless pleasures. Like a rock, […]
Collapsed. That two-story, grey house, with the wrap around porch was spotted in ashes this week. It sat along the traintracks… This house, that I imagined before housing complexes, chain malls and a nursing home took over, hosting loads of travelers going along their way. I once dreamed of restoring it’s bones. Filling it with children. […]
I’ve seen the scared bodies, once ablaze with fire and ash, thrown into the inferno, for no explanation, justified to man. I’ve read the horrifying stories of children sacrificed at brith, rescued by missionaries, who pleaded with some tribe, “That baby wasn’t cursed”. I’ve looked on the photo of a mummy girl, wrapped in cloth, given […]
Scattered messages fall from the sky, like confetti of lies, pulling our eyes to the right, to the left. We grab their reflections, jump at the sound of balloons popping wrecklessly, not knowing at all, whether the party was all a facade. His name stops and catches us; in mouths of the “heard”, with titles and […]
Oh friends, stand firm. When the world spins, like Wizard of Oz, taking us from the land that we love. When lives fall, bend over like the Leaning Tower, and things we have held onto for so many years, crumble from lack of strength. Hold fast. When there are rumors of blasts, attacks and Giants in […]