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.

4,000

~ Harlan Didrickson 
And with this 
just as with 
that what started 
as an idea
has become something 
else entirely this 
has become that 
which I have 
long dreamed about 
and now that 
this is here
I wish that 
I could thank 
all those who 
gave me their 
moments and minutes 
for isn’t that 
all that there
really is anyway

There’sOne

~ Harlan Didrickson 
There is 
one feeling 
that all
creatures understand 
to learn 
this listen
to children 
laugh or
watch dogs 
wag or 
taste that
one long
awaited favorite 
dish this 
one simplest
emotion of 
all is 
just joy

IfIMust

~ Harlan Didrickson 
If I must 
do but one 
thing for the 
rest of life 
let it be 
love and if
also for eternity 
let it also 
be to love 
for there’s nothing 
truer to do

NowNot

~ Harlan Didrickson 
The longer 
I go
without them 
the easier 
it is 
to go
are love 
and sex
really just 
such folly
that simply 
going without 
hurts less
than having 
have had 
now not

Sadly

~ Harlan Didrickson 
This thing 
this thing 
I am 
just like 
that thing 
that thing
you are
means little 
to anyone 
to anyone 
at all