Flowers and Stardust Wrapped in Fairy Wings

I'm rolling up flowers and stardust into fairy wings. So fragile, so delicate - I can taste the strawberry flavor on my lips. It burns. The nicotine intoxicates as I manipulate the leaf this way and that with my tongue. 

I light it up and it burns like a dream. The remnants rise up toward the heavens; the flowers dance in my lungs. I expel the demons. I expel my demons.

The flavor - so sweet; the effect - so rich; I can only finish half.

I woke up for the first time today.
The heat of summer and the intensity it brought - subsided.
The cloud of heavy sadness - finally shed its layers.
The weight - lifted.

The wind was blowing hard today.
The brisk air renewed me.
When I stand against the wind I know my strength.

Cloudy Day

Patterns & Pathways

People These Days

People don't see the world around them anymore.  With their noses in their phones, people can no longer just be. Can no longer be alone with their own thoughts.

With their physical bodies present in reality, their minds are buzzing around cyberspace.

Our minds need constant entertainment. Constant stimulation.

The days of people taking solace in walks, in hikes, in sitting alone and taking in the air, the environment, life - gone.

People these days would rather look at life through a phone, a camera, through lenses.
Lenses that distort.

One and Only

On the precipice

In the waiting line

So far and so close are irrelevant

Are infinite, everlasting, always happening.

I wait, I begin

In waiting it starts

It begins in knowing there's

No turning back

The realization takes root in the mind.

The root grows & settles in the

Soul.

The heart takes

Time to rationalize that

Love

Does not conquer all

Love does not always know best.

I am one only. I am my one

And only.

In the process of your own ruin,

You took me down.

You threw my world into chaos

By keeping me on the hook.

You shattered my heart,

But my soul is not something you took.