feelings – Deb Hawken

Sugar-coated

My life is sugar-coated by moneyGlossed like an expensive donutWith the good old sturdy cake beneathPeople look at it and see the sparkleBut rarely the emotional costYou don’t dare to complainBecause you have MONEY It is one thing to be gratefulFor what you do haveAnd I am so gratefulIt is another to thinkThat the icingContinueContinue reading “Sugar-coated”

Absent From My Life

One of the aspects I’ve learned from living a soul-centred life and listening to the heart, which is the doorway to the soul, is that I hadn’t put myself into my life. I’m not talking about being self-centred, I’m talking about being so affected by the outside world you forget to consciously create the innerContinueContinue reading “Absent From My Life”

All the Hope You Cannot Feel

Keep Reaching You are without hope Lost in a cavern of emotion Seeking to escape Your own fate Created in your own heart By you? By others? Does it matter? You are without joy Overwhelmed by what shouldn’t be Shouldn’t have happened Or been said Or done But it was said And it was doneContinueContinue reading “All the Hope You Cannot Feel”

The House

Photo by Jessica Lewis on Pexels.com I’m one of those people who can tell you from the bottom of a drive whether we’re going to buy a house. Hubby always says to me “will the fridge freezer fit in the kitchen or is our bed too big?” Just to have a polite way to sayContinueContinue reading “The House”