What it Is – Hokus Grey Get ready to abandon ship. Which ship? That one you’ve spent a lifetime building. Those little habits that you call “You”. Those ideas that you’ve held your whole life. Your home. Your identity. Your business. Your job. Your relationship. Your friends. What do I mean? We fall in love … Continue reading ReBlog wednesday – “What It Is”
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Mental Health Monday – 05.29.23
#mentalhealthmonday#mentalhealthawareness It doesn't have to be pretty. In fact, most of the time, it's not. Growth is painful. Trauma, wounds, disease, distemper - these are messy. Chaotic. We are works in progress. We're newborns, still covered in amniotic fluid. We're masterpieces that are still just smears of paint, half-formed sketches, and nonsense words. We might … Continue reading Mental Health Monday – 05.29.23
Reblog Wednesday – “Room on Fire”
A Room on Fire – Hokus Grey Crabs in a bucket. Rats in a maze. We encounter struggles in our lives, uncertain times, hardships, sickness, death, war, and we do one of two things; we either band together and endure, or we break down into ineffective individual units and we multiply the problem with infighting. … Continue reading Reblog Wednesday – “Room on Fire”
RE-Blog Wednesday – “The Winter Wars”
The Winter Wars – Hokus Grey Winter is upon us. The holidays are past. We now are left with the aftermath of our festivities. The visits from friends and relatives, the indulgences of food, and booze, and consumeristic hedonism that tends to flow almost as readily as the Christmas Cheer. An end to carols and … Continue reading RE-Blog Wednesday – “The Winter Wars”
ReBlog Wednesday – “Uranium”
We change. What we were is subsumed by our present being and the thing we are is not the thing we will become. We are transitory creatures, evolving, dying, and being born again, day after day throughout our lives. We can grow to become strong and benevolent, or we can wither and writhe under the … Continue reading ReBlog Wednesday – “Uranium”
The Dawning Blade
Good morning, Citizens. This is a warning. Magnificent isn't it. The dawning of a new day. The drawing of a new blade; each one comes prepared to be the last one we will ever need. It all depends on where we place our eyes. Look up to the sky. Bow your head a … Continue reading The Dawning Blade
A Human Centipede
I watched you crawl into dark spaces, lithe and contorted, like some many-legged insect. Absolving yourself of all your little disgraces, those little white lies that became an infinite void. I saw you feed on pain and devastation. I saw what a diet of shame and guilt could do. You, who I once believed … Continue reading A Human Centipede
The Perfect Winter Night
Light travels differently at -40°. Cleaner, clearer, exposed in stark relief, standing with no comfort. Everything extraneous is obvious. The wasted and the derelict freeze quickly and are gone. The wounded and the sorrowful find shelter and the streets are bare. Every sound is unlwelcome, except for the song sung by the failing. All … Continue reading The Perfect Winter Night
Dawn Apostle
These are the lean times. The in between times. The belly full, but sometimes the mind screams and I'm nose to the grindstone, eyes on my own work, feet on the way to a milestone, soul on a slow burn. It was my turn and I took it without question. My mind made up … Continue reading Dawn Apostle
Hoarfrost
Did you ask the sky about the coming winter? The leaves on the trees seem to believe that turning early is the way to go. Even the birds know. They've made their travel plans. They're getting out of here, man; you can believe it. How is it going to be? In that long night, … Continue reading Hoarfrost
Prison Skin
Thought you were ready to run? Thought you were ready to go? All fucked up on the answers of all that you had to know. Now that you have the keys; you've killed a jailer or two. Can you work the lock from the inside? Are you sure you want to? The world out there … Continue reading Prison Skin
Ouroboros
I felt a morning breeze drag its fingers across my face; a gentle wake up call, before the heavy hand of the day would fall. I climbed up out of Hell, just as I did every morning and I took a look around. Somehow, the whole world had changed on me again. Slow, … Continue reading Ouroboros
Big Red Balloon
Don’t say a thing. Don’t make a sound. Don’t even breathe. Don’t do anything. Wait just a moment, in a few seconds, you’re whole world’s going to change. I promise, things will never be the same, when I take away all that you have been. Just put your faith in me. Give me … Continue reading Big Red Balloon
No-Good-Bye
I’m right where I need to be, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between the sky above me and the Earth below; I don’t know what I don’t know. I can’t care enough to lie, and I can’t count the times I’ve died a little inside when you walk by. There … Continue reading No-Good-Bye
Grave Wax
There are words here somewhere, to describe this something. If I sit here longer in the silence wondering. Digging deeper into my head to find you, my mind to let you out into the vacuum. Every thought I've ever had was leading up to this one; I'm euphoric. It has been so many years … Continue reading Grave Wax
Marigold
These days are new days, revealed by the light of an Eastern stranger. The frigid blankets pulled back to reveal the scars of a murderous season. Never has such desolation been more welcome. Soon, the grounds around will be swept clean and a season of rot will feed a field of Marigold … Continue reading Marigold
Childish Things
I am told that we used to play in a garden of stars. So many silly games made us who we are. We never stopped to question the meaning of the answers, it was easy to believe them as they were. If there were no rules to the world I live in now, I'd … Continue reading Childish Things
The Lie
Maybe I’ve been lying all along, but who expected me to tell the truth? Would the Father of Lies be surprised? I doubt he’d even turn a head or two. The night is all the truth I’ve ever known. I’ve asked the sky for rain to help me grow. I have been denied, spent … Continue reading The Lie
A Beautiful Cage
You won’t admit that you have closed your eyes, when the world outside showed that it didn’t care and you got scared. Learned you had been believing in a lie, but you’re too brave to hide, so you built a grand design. Painted with the world you want to see on the inside and now … Continue reading A Beautiful Cage
The Will of The Storm
On the horizon, the storm gathers and waits for some poor soul to wander far from home. Then it rolls in, slow and silent, between us and the Sun and cools our skin with winds from high up. Rumbles come, low and breaking. Lit by light snapping, cracking the sky and blistering the air … Continue reading The Will of The Storm