It seldom worked…
Disagreement.
Felt unreal.
Resentfully shoved aside.
Thoughts held captive…
Indemnified.
Too late.
Nothing was forgiven.
Grim words penned…
Misspelled.
Made sense.
Left at that.
Every you knows…
Someone.
Like me.
A small world.
©Aaysid
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There’s always someone
Sitting on the floor
Looking skyward
Not keeping score,
And it feels weird
To bring an empty cart
Out of a shopping mart,
And have nothing
On your list checked off,
And to drive around
All night on a weekend
With a stomach
Running on nothing
But pure wanderlust;
When life puts you
Out of sorts
You have to do
Whatever you can
To gather your thoughts!
©Aaysid
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
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Festivals and holidays are different kind of affairs for introverts. We do not go out of our way to meet people, and the ones who make an effort to see us soon realise that they’d be making us even happier if they’d leave us to our plans. After all, holidays are all about taking it easy and doing what we enjoy.
So with only one day available to pack a good amount of fun into, I have decided to start a book I’d been meaning to read for quite sometime, and watch two movies (from a long list of supposedly great ones).Being a huge Haruki Murakami fan, I had been looking forward to watch, Drive My Car, but I couldn’t find it on the streaming service. The Power of the Dog and The Lost Daughter are the ones I shall be watching instead. I have read good things about them.
Previously skeptical, I have now wramed up to the idea of reading along with the audio narration and Audible has been great so far. I hope that Catch-22 will be an incredible experience. There’s no way I’d be able to finish it in a day though.😁
Not every house
Can have a fireplace,
But every home
Has at least a few
Photographs from before
To huddle around,
And that snugness
Might make up for
The missing heat,
And might be
Just as sweet.
©Aaysid
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
Walt Whitman
A few untroubled poems (hopefully) about what troubles us:
I.
this time last year,
I had a different set
of worries;
today at this time,
I have more worries
than before,
the only difference
is that I am not
that worried anymore
and that, in fact,
is worrisome.
II.
I hear myself
voicing my fears,
but they come out
in whispers
and stay suspended
in the static air,
but the suffocation
that follows
becomes unbearable,
the faint
whispers unhearable;
I wonder
what it is like to have
a voice that can
diffuse across thick air,
I wonder
what it is like to have
my own voice,
but none of my fears!
III.
you sit quietly
with your head
bent over a table
as your troubles
threaten to leak
through your eyes,
but it feels weird
to cry at a place
that is not your home,
and it also feels wrong
to lead a flood
to your home-
it is yet another worry
you do not want to
cry about here.
©Aaysid
Sometimes we mean well, but we have a hard time expressing ourselves. Three short poem toying with this idea:
I.
I bring my blues
To navigate through
Your orange skies-
Things keep getting greyer.
II.
Why be afraid
Of the ones
Who hate you?
Even if no one
Pushes you
From behind,
You can still fall
Flat on your face!
III.
How can you
Read their eyes
If you cannot
Bring yourself
To look into them?
©Aaysid
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If you do not want to hear a strange buzzing inside your ears, and do not feel like thinking faster than you can act, then it is wise to not have coffee muffin cake (with dalgona coffee icing) with coffee! I feel like staying up all night to read and watch a movie (taking a little break this weekend), but I’d be surprised if I manage to get anything done tonight! Turns out there is such a thing as too much coffee after all. 😁
I am currently halfway through Normal People by Sally Rooney, but I am not so sure if I’d finish it. The pile of unread books on my nightstand is calling out to me.
As for the movie, I want to watch Stowaway as I have heard good things about it, but I am pretty sure that I’d end up rewatching either The Shawshank Redemption or The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Featured Image by cocoparisienne from Pixabay
Outrageously Erratic 