Is it set in stone
if you hold a hammer?
©haylesmaree
Letter to the editor
Proofread your essays
not your stories.
Do not stain your voice with red marker
to feel publishable.
Be a notebook
full
of mistakes
torn pages
pages out of order
so many words spoken imperfectly
on the perfect skin coloured parchment
of you.
©haylesmare
Write now
First we die…
And, we write letters about all the things we wanted to do but didn’t.
Followed by all the things we did do but didn’t want to.
… then we live.
©haylesmaree
Nothing everywhere
I am suffocated by the clarity,
strangled by the empty,
murdered by the cure.
©haylesmaree
Let’s talk
We never really stop “coming out”.
It is something that becomes a regular part of everyday conversation. After all, it is our responsibility to disprove the assumption we never played a part in imbedding in a stranger’s mind, right? It is the real never ending story. Frustrations aside, we have gained access to one of the most highly efficient means of filtering. Our innate orientation unknowingly taps into the most advanced personality flaw detector in the social spectrum.
I cannot tell if this insight is a power or a weakness.
Perhaps it is both.
©haylesmaree
In other
Sometimes I searched for messages,
none the wiser
that the words I needed to hear were my own.
©haylesmaree
Extreme Anti-extremism
Protestors are given a bad rap; ridiculed for expressing passionate detest.
Meanwhile, those who do nothing to communicate their dismay other than the occasional social media rant or breakfast conversation, are considered to be more tolerable, sensible, and respectable individuals.
Funny, isn’t it? We look kindly upon those with empty complaints and look down upon the minority who care to put into action what the majority simply use as dinner banter.
I’m not talking about those people who shove their beliefs down your throat (that’s a separate article entirely). What I’m trying to say is that branding inaction acceptable and endorsing the ideology that freedom of speech can only be practiced amongst your “closed caption group” is perhaps the reason we have something negative to say in the first place…
…still believe the protestors are the extremists?
©haylesmaree
