A rear-view mirror – shimmering discontent
in heated waves still rising from the road
where all our best intentions lay as spent
and cheap as every smile we’ve ever sold…

You want to claim the truth? Take back one lie.
You know what one is yours, consider this –
before you count on nothing maybe try
to get it right when next you reminisce
about a friend who never welcomed you
or one you’d make believe was never true
or one who’s love you’ve chosen to dismiss.

As always, it’s the same five miles of old
dust and dirt we kick up when we meet
– the reasons why just drift around our feet.

Beginnings and endings are difficult, but what’s between them makes it worth while to endure them.

We crawled out of the darkness, and looked upon the sky. But the sky was also dark, only illuminated by the distant fading lights. And our quest to understand them began. Our quest of hundreds and thousands of years. It seems like it will never end, although we are closer with every new step we take. But where do our steps take us? Towards the darkness we came from, or towards the light, or towards the grey mists we will never be able to navigate through? Each question only begs us to go forward, to see and feel, to touch and smell, to hear the pulsing beat of the heart of the universe. And what awaits there, at the far edge of the world? Will we reach it before we fall? Will it be…

“The truth may hurt for a little while but a lie hurts forever.” Author Unknown

“You can never find yourself unless you face the truth.”  Pearl Bailey

For whatever reasons we justify our actions…whether we are afraid to be rejected or ridiculed….whether we dont want to hurt or worry another….whether we just wish to hide or conceal…there is no excuse to not be truthful and honest…

Just saying….