Friday, January 31, 2014

What happened

What happened to you?
YOU use to have things to say
Now you pass on other people's quirky quotes and 'thoughts'
Memes that lack meaning
You use to mean something
Now you're a faff distributor
We miss you
I miss you
The you who you once were
Of thought
Of substance
You use to have things to say
You use to mean something
The you who use to challenge me
The you who use to inspire me
Who use to remind me to be me
The me of thought
The me of substance
I miss that you
As I now miss that me

What happened to you
What happened to us?

- Sleeps

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Emotion as ocean

You're your soul, and the ocean is your emotion.
Relax, collected emotion allows for calm, still waters making the swim easy
With heightened emotion, conditions change and with wind comes turbulence.
But emotion is not bad nor the enemy as with swell comes waves of life.
Moments of surf and adventure, navigating our way above or below sea level to find equilibrium through disarray.
And it is disarray.
We were not prepared for these triggers.
These ripples of effect, affecting us through reflected waves and superposition.
We all begin by fighting the waves and crashing against them, never having the time or energy to question where the waves come from or what other ways there are to deal with them... Until one day you are broken and sink.
That last wave was too much and neither logic nor survival instinct has any reason to help you any further...
Relax. It's passed. There is nothing of consequence and there is nothing now to fear. It's dark and breathing is no longer a concern...
But then just before you are totally lost the swell calms. You begin to rise and float.
You begin to suspect your level of influence over this ocean, which now seems more like a bay.
Through time even waves caused by others you find are not totally foreign.

Life's different now and you have even learnt navigate the ways with others. Some having more influence on your conditions than others.

Sometimes you get distracted but you hope you don't forget what you've learnt to maybe pass on what you've found.
It excites you to think of where they could then navigate to (next).

- Sleeps