The stage is set. We're about to begin. They ask for my most valued possession. I open the bidding at an appetizing number. They eat it up, licking their lips and smiling at one another. Like they know something I don't. You patiently wait until the auction reaches an astronomical amount no one would dream of paying. My [...]
My life feels like a candlestick. I once stood tall and I could shine over the tree tops. Then You lit the spark and I've been melting ever since, dissipating down to the forest floor. Instead of looking over the trees, I'm now staring up at them. The colored forest, once full of life, is charred [...]
Gliding now, across the ground. What is left to be found? It feels like there is so little time. Existing in this imaginary wasteland I call my mind. Shouldn't I be planning how to save the most souls? A five-year plan to reach all my goals? Instead of living in a pensieve. Revisiting memories like [...]
Full of enormous potential, but helpless as ever. Can you relate? My hands are tied behind my back. They want to create, to bring life, but they're held in place. So I bash my head against the desk. Over and over to release my pent-up energy. It never works. My pulse punches through my temple [...]
We sin because who we are doesn't feel real enough. If we knew ourselves and God in the realist way, we would not want to feel anything else. Seeing that we are one with God, sin would lose its appeal. Everything brought to the Light is seen for what it is - a downgrade from [...]
Sometimes, I find myself in a weird headspace. It's a strange funk where I feel pressure from a sense of hopelessness, like everything I want to see happen, won't. And nothing is ever going to change for me or this world, like no amount of faith can move this massive, ancient mountain that has always [...]
There is something behind everything we create. We're all searching for it. Whatever "it" is. The passion behind every song we sing, the imagination behind every picture we make on paper, the emotion behind every single word we pen in our writing. When we create, we feel better, gaining more freedom, even though we don't [...]
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