The Perspective Jar

Things to put in:

Family

Friends

The future

Screw the lid on

shake it up

and instead of 

finding problems

hopefully,

I'll find sense.  

Web

Lots of connections

and changing directions

every thread has a story

whether that thread receives glory

or stays in the shadows

all depends on other threads. 

All connected

but at the same time not. 

All wrapped up

in our separate plots.

We all interweave 

but don't interact 

Strangers with strangers

and we keep it as that.

Maybe the web will shake

and together we'll feel the ache

grow stronger

no longer

strangers with strangers.  

Music

Makes
Us
Share 
Insight 
Collectively. 

You

make me 
smile
cry 
angry
and all things in between.


You,
are the only one 
I want to talk to
are the only one
I don't want to see
now or ever.


You,
make me
me.
Don't change for the bad
because if you do
it makes me worry
that I will too. 

Submersion

Under the water
thoughts flow
peacefully.
It seems as if having no
outside sounds
means your thoughts
have a louder voice.


Rather than frantically 
yelling
trying to get their point across,
they take in it turns 
and things begin
to clear,
clear as water. 

Loosing a Grip on Faith

What once a straight path
now isn't so clear
I've started to wonder
whether to go here
turn there
since signs seem to point 
to everywhere.


And on the end of the path
there wasn't a question
that surely was my destination
as long as I did right
not wrong
but now I'm not sure
where I belong.


For can you belong
in something you don't believe?
Not thinking of the book
you know, the one with Adam, Eve.


Not feeling a tug
to follow that path
but create your own
and just try to be good.

Work, Working, Still Working

Work on the back of my mind
and I can't seem to find
a way of getting it out.
Do that essay
Word count
You have notes to be doing


I feel that this load
no matter how many times I'm told
will be there
in every spare
moment of time.


Be it school
university
a job,
looking for a job
I will always need to work.
it's crushing
crushing
far far down
I need to build myself up
before crashing to the ground.