I can’t remember lyrics
But I can hum
With the best of
Them I’ve always hummed
In fact I could
Whistle before I talked
There’s something to be
Said there I’ve always
Loved long before I
Understood and that tunes
Are the hearts song
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.
LoveOut
The difference between selfishness
And selflessness is simple
The first is survival
And the second living
When one is selfish
One thinks of oneself
When one is selfless
One only thinks others
Put it another way
Love occurs inside selflessness
And is expressed outwardly
Greed occurs inside selfishness
And is expressed inwardly
To live love out
LifeTime
Age creaks youth bounces
And the middle resists
Running away from one
And into the other
The pain of life
Reminding me reminding me
I’m not done yet
Now in my Autumn
When youths leaves turn
Comes my brightest colors
And then and only
Then I’ll be gone
SnowFallPlay
And then in the
Corner of the lower
Pane snow gathered gathering
And I could hear
The little sounds of
Tickling glee as the
Outstretched hands of snowflakes
Took hold of one
Another like school children
Playing in the yard
NewsBadOrOtherwise
It hit hard like
Fresh cold mountain air
Making me gasp choke
News that wracked me
Like a lynch mob
Making me retreat from
The outside in as
The dust of devastation
Settled in my heart
My mind reeled a
Deep sea lure taken
And run unable to
Pull it back in
The news whatever it
Was then numbed me
And like a criminal
I denied my culpability
It was that bad
