Out to the Wilderness

Send me out there, Where no people are And give up my soul To its King Let me die fighting, On the battlefield lying, Or take my last breath By the sea Give me the host, Or an army of ghosts An adventure! With little compare Out to the Wilderness Under the sky, Please setContinue reading “Out to the Wilderness”

The Mirror

I hate Toby. As a creeping sense of dread washes over me, I pray for sunlight. For safety. For the presence I now sense in the corner of my room to just LEAVE ME ALONE. I’d hoped I would grow out of this, but here I am, in a dark room, at… three o’clock inContinue reading “The Mirror”

The Sorrow I Know

Today, I had the pleasure of caring for a number of people whose sorrows I will never fully understand. The circumstances with which they found themselves were, to them, insurmountable. This crushing weight has lead to a number of visible effects in their lives, each one diverse in ways innumerable. The DNA, as it were,Continue reading “The Sorrow I Know”