When The Tables Are Turned

It’s intriguing how cool or even funny it is to talk about evil deeds or watch others get victimized by it, from afar. 

It’s a completely different thing when evil deeds are staring one straight on the eye and face, with all the exquisite pain and discomfort that it entails.

And yet there is no better taste of truth, no better catharsis, than to confront one’s demon up close and personal.

Sleepless - III

We talked and drank and talked and drank, ad infinitum

Until the rattling of bones, hollowed of marrow and restrain, woke us up

And the freezing zephyr told us that we are dead

Nightwalks

Nothing soothes the senses more than a walk through the night’s evergreen realm. 

Quite unexpectedly, sometimes one is bound to find itself in the midst of enlightenment, and, perhaps, the company of a wise denizen of the woods. 

Wise enough to explain, and clarify, why all the sevens are actually ones…. 

Moon Mirror

Each time I look upon the moon, under the veil of night and its layers of dark clouds, it never fails to transport my mind to that serenity, high up in the misty skies.

What was it that the old one once told me about the glorious night light?

“It is but a mute reminder to our real abode, within the stars, where the slumbering below is the awoken above“