I can't shut it out.

There are times I think I will go absolutely mad if I have to endure another day.  I wish I could hide in the night.

The Split-Second Meet-and-Fade

Sixth of November,

I saw you, and
I utterly
could not
believe it

My heart
frantically pounding
in its fragile cavity
fell out of my body and onto the ground - splattering
red

I completely froze
into non-recognition,

failing to know what to do, I was so tempted to tap on your shoulder, but

I had nothing to say,
so I lost you

Pins and Needles

It's 4:00 AM in New York, and the temperature is, not surprisingly, a December kind of subzero.

I wish I could fall asleep, but my mind is too busily trying to file away all the worries that have piled up on my desk.  I can barely stand the sound of my own voice right now - I need the quiet.

Right this moment, this world is too brutal a place for someone like me.

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." Tom Stoppard

There are times when someone else's words just fit you better than your own.