Author: Harlan Didrickson

I first started writing this blog as a way to refocus my thinking after a debilitating mental breakdown in 2008. Having been educated in writing, I had hoped that my love for words would have left a trail for me to follow and, well, here we are.

Song

~ Harlan Didrickson 
Oh so long
ago the music 
stopped but I 
kept on humming 
the same tune 
thinking then hoping 
that one day
the band would 
come to town 
they never did 
and now even
I have forgotten 
what to do 
now that I 
have no song

Next

~ Harlan Didrickson 
I follow 
the patterns 
and not 
the tide
the moon
or stars
I follow 
what has
been done 
with repetition
and know 
what is 
coming next 
such fools
are those 
who hide 
behind masks

Reef

~ Harlan Didrickson 
A reef
you were 
upon which 
I swam
too near
you left
your mark 
with cuts
and scars
ever so 
close to 
my heart

Fact

~ Harlan Didrickson 
What we had 
was long ago 
what we have 
is very little 
so this now
is either new
a fresh start 
or it’s old 
and finally over

Break

~ Harlan Didrickson 
It’s when 
what one 
thought isn’t 
won’t be 
and never 
really was
that one 
hears the 
screeching of
the brakes 
and one 
waits for 
what one 
knows will 
come next