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.

IDon’t

~ Harlan Didrickson 
I don’t understand why 
People that want something 
Believe that someone else 
Wants that same thing 
Is it true that 
Only the strong survives
Then why do so 
Many subvert acquiesce accept 
Why do so many 
Wish to please while 
Others wish to abuse

JuiceTheOrange

~ Harlan Didrickson 
I don’t dismiss the 
Past for life is
Like a bag of 
Oranges and each experience 
But one single fruit 
I learn what I 
Need to learn and 
Carry its wisdom with 
I juice the orange 
Leaving behind the pulp

Breeze

~ Harlan Didrickson 
Your life is yours 
To do as you 
Please and not just 
To please others just 
Like the tree gives 
Birth to leaves to 
Go where they must 
So did your parents 
Find your own breeze
And therefore your freedom

IWillAgain

~ Harlan Didrickson 
I will write poetry 
Again filled with imagery
As I have known 
You enjoy swimming there
I promise I will 
Once my soul stops 
Its bleeding and clots

Life

~ Harlan Didrickson

Life hasn’t ever been about getting things right. Life has always been about getting things wrong and making them right. And it’s only ever in that gap that life ever lives.