Author: hokusgrey
Mental Health Monday – 08.15.22
#mentalhealthmonday #mentalhealthawareness Comfort. Pride. Ego. The downward spiral of “Good enough”. It’s a trap we all fall into, like a cunning spider’s web we cannot avoid. We want to think that the work we have done is sufficient. We want to believe that we know the way, and the path, and that we are far […]
Late Summer
God, how I love late summer. That moment before the heat finally breaks, the cool air of night beckons the harvest, and the bounty of the field starts to show. Frenetic times are faded. The summer’s luster’s lost it’s shine, but the days still blaze, even as the nights get longer. You and I […]
The Most Ignored Miracle
Taking a breath and letting go. Gritting my teeth and hanging on. Finding my feet, enough to run away. Finding the will inside to stay. The words appear upon the page, as if through some divine intercession. Life unfolds each day revealing the most ignored miracle in the world. Eyes open and […]
Real Boy
Back up to the cloud. Don’t let the memory escape. Just like you let yourself forget every memory of pain. Thought you were impossible. Just a reflection, just a dream. Turns out I was the one that only existed on a screen. Show me who you are and I will play back all […]
Castaway
Fashioning an exodus, a raft, a kite, made of discarded dreams. Thrones and castles only serve to be tombs in time. Waking the dead with wind and water. Giving life, not to the past, but to the future. Some things do not survive, only because they exist out of time. Sometimes we […]
The Value of Waiting
Playing on all my fears. Drawing out all my anxieties. Examining who I am in the cold light of morning. Extricate myself from the maze I’ve built. The subtle twists and turns that dead ended. When I was a child, I never had the knack for solving complex puzzles. Fact is, I just […]
The Cycle of The Serpent
Does the Universe long to return to darkness? Are being and uncreation the cycle of the serpent? Is there a future out there with no past? Is there an end, or is it all new beginnings? Consciousness claims another mind. The Universe shifts, at least all visible light now has new eyes to […]
Special
You put me on this long, drawn trajectory, but I don’t blame you. No, not for a second. Your rejection saved me. I would not have survived if the person I was had been accepted. I would have died in my habits and my hubris. I believed that I was special. And not […]
Loving You
Bringing out the light in your eyes. All I ever wanted was to see you smile. Pass down the light from time to time and resurrect the day after each night. The touch of your skin, your warm embrace seemed to take all my fear away. And I could stand out there in the […]
Orientation Day
Feel that? Something between excitement and trepidation. The uncovered sky and the bottomless. Knowing the eyes of the universe are on you is a humbling sensation. What is it to be seen by that which is unseen? What is it to be touched by that which has no form? Trying the strands […]
The Mourning Call
The mourning call of the wounded ones echoes through time. No one turns to acknowledge them, lest the join their funeral parade. The day rejoice and the Sun will come, but for these poor souls the day becomes maudlin in its infancy, desperate by noon, and suicidal by suppertime. What a place this is […]
The Expedition
Taking a moment to find my head. I think I lost it in intoxicating thoughts and dreams sold to me by fox-faced hawkers who abstain from the way we go. Caught up in a tempest. Begun a slow meander. River in the gorge became a master, and I became a slave to every […]
Safe
The terror placates you. Such a lovely instrument. Blissfully overt and obvious. Oh, so effective. Never had the need to cordon, or escalate. The fear has always been enough to overwhelm you. Coach you in your horror. Counsel your anxieties. Show you the endless forms of your enemies. Subtly displace your sense of self […]
Mental Health Monday – 07.25.22
mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness Been a minute. Life gets in the way, it’s a fact we can’t always avoid. There will always be demands on our resources, our time, our energy, our emotions, and the fact is we only have so much to draw on. We need to cultivate a strong concept of who we are. As individuals, […]
The Fear Below
I am a child of ghosts, broken homes, and narrow alleyways. I am a son of rage, created this place in a state of disarray. Coming into the age of entropy, I feel like the world’s reflecting me. If that is the case, It’s up to me to change. Nothing that I’ve see would […]
Order and Chaos
The first words out of your mouth gave me the last thing I expected. I didn’t know I needed all of this, or anything. The first thoughts in my head were defensive, even angry, and then sadness, as I realized how wrong I was. You and I started off the same, just […]
Hokus Grey 