Why?

Why is a what wordBefore you have a whatYou need to decide why you wantWhatever the what isWhy is an existential questionWhat is important todayOr ten minutes agoMay not be tomorrowOr in ten minutes’ timeWhy and what togetherChange each other all the timeWe humans are fluidWe plan for the futureDecide why we want somethingMake itContinueContinue reading “Why?”

Saving a Book Meant to Help

You publish a book, it sells for a bit then it stops and you lose confidence. Then you wake up and realise that this is a book intended to help, and no matter what it should be promoted.

Be Yourself – Live Your Life

Compromising the self leaves you not knowing who you are, never feeling right, and always being asked more of. Some thoughts about why you shouldn’t do that.

The Equality of War and Insults

They are for the weak This image doesn’t even begin to demonstrate the longevity of the problem. Humans wage war and humans insult. We’re in the 21st Century and social media has clearly demonstrated that as a race we have barely advanced. Technological complications Yes we laud our technology, the fancy stuff we can build,ContinueContinue reading “The Equality of War and Insults”

Parenthesis of a Happy Child

I thought I knew who you wereand how it wasI thought I understoodeverythingI believed in the pastin the certainty of memoryYet you were layers within layersof life and meaningComplex in your simplicityconcave in self-beliefYou said you knew the waybut you were only trying To lead me safelyto an unknown destinationTheories authorised your existencelife made aContinueContinue reading “Parenthesis of a Happy Child”

On Society: The Other-hood of Man

One of the problems with our society is that we’re taught to see people as ‘other’. When in fact if you could look below the skin you would see exactly the same components. Over the centuries we have divided ourselves by race, religion, colour, creed, and now gender. These divisions are so many centuries oldContinueContinue reading “On Society: The Other-hood of Man”

Discomfort

Cats can be comfy in any position This comes from my sense of discomfort in my writing: I want to be funny Write of beauty But there is war I want to walk you down flower filled lanes Where we watch the butterflies and bees But children are suffering I want us to travel toContinueContinue reading “Discomfort”

Succinct

I love succinct writerswho can express the messIn short simple sentencesPeople who can carve throughthe morass of lifecutting to the chaseI have to hunt it chase it downwork through itSeek the nuancesand sometimes dismiss thembecause life isn’tone size or one fitIt is filledwith ifs – buts – maybe’sdepending on the shapein which it arrivesIt isContinueContinue reading “Succinct”