For those who prefer to listen instead of read, a link to the YouTube audio recording is provided at the end of this article. This is a personal reflection on risk, rejection and the ferocity of becoming…. People love the word luck – it rolls off the tongue so easily, like a sigh of relief…… Continue reading The Awful Idea of “Luck”
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The Fire I Refuse to Let Die…
As I am currently mastering yet another language, and exploring other paths – I am the eternal explorer of life, my talents and passions…after all life is about living – I also find myself reminiscing… A quiet revolution begins within a woman when she remembers who she is. Not who the world told her to…… Continue reading The Fire I Refuse to Let Die…
I SEE YOU
What happened to your smile?…That like plasticine you draw on your face’Proper’ words spill forth….Hollow echoes…While your heart cries in silence.Claws scratch at your soul…Silent screams of the forgotten selfWrestling beneath the weight of conformityWhere success is a two-faced charade…And failure is living to the rhythm of your true essence.You hide your so-called failures Your…… Continue reading I SEE YOU
COMING HOME TO ME
This is a piece from what is turning out to be the manuscript for a new book I am putting together, which I have chosen to call “Coming Home to Me.” The writing in it does not follow a script or a particular order but simply self-reflections on the deep emotions I am going through…… Continue reading COMING HOME TO ME
Like a Phoenix
Although cold, shadows no longer weighThese dark nights of the soul can take their tollHer spirit and mind seek the day Tired of wrestling with the pastShe holds on…And although tears may flowShe knows, in this there is growth. She feels the pain, as it brings her to her kneesSuccumbing, she dissolves and becomes the…… Continue reading Like a Phoenix
To Be Human
One of my favorite authors is Ayn Rand. I was 16 the first time my cousin R. introduced me to one of her books, and I was hooked on them from then on. I cannot say I share her sentiments regarding cities, but I do regarding progress and, more importantly, regarding the Human Spirit. Since…… Continue reading To Be Human
Never Too Late…
We live life one step at a timeBetween heaven and hellEach step closer to death.You smile at the worldHiding your painRunning from your so-called demonsRunning away from yourself. Revolving around their medals and labelsYou let them strip you of all else that you are able,They dressed you in whiteWhile united, they chant, “Sinner you are”.So,…… Continue reading Never Too Late…
Reflections: Absence
Absence, the dictionary describes it as “the state of being away from a place or a person”, “an occasion or period of being away from a person”, “the nonexistent or lack of”; today I reflect on absence as a whole, the bittersweet moment of wanting to be and not being…. People at times fear solitude…… Continue reading Reflections: Absence
Reflection #9: Loving Life
A few days back I decided to take a break from Social Media; two weeks prior to that, I was struggling with insomnia–on and off, to be honest more on than off. I knew my spirit, my soul, my mind and body were trying to tell me something but I wasn’t ready to listen. Insomnia…… Continue reading Reflection #9: Loving Life
Reflection #7: Gratitude
How many times do we go through our day as if on autopilot? How many times do we crave to feel the magick of life yet tune ourselves out from it? We are so eager to “succeed” or to shut out the silence of life that we have adapted no differently than a hamster in…… Continue reading Reflection #7: Gratitude
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