Wednesday 21 November 2012

Goodbye propensity

I have found writing to be therapeutic when I have things I need to say but don't know how to voice. One thing I've learned is that pain shut in is a poison that kills, a wound that festers and slowly kills you. I hate it when I open up and let the world see my vulnerability, I feel like a city without walls encouraging plunder. 

But whilst a physician may not heal himself, a creative does so by creating. Thus I will find solace in my words...... I have pain shut in that needs to find release, worries that bog me down, memories that haunt me. I am a troubled soul wandering aimlessly, my compass long lost, with only my voices for companionship. I have yelled and I have whispered, I have professed and I have decreed, all of it has amounted to naught. 

Why can't I contain myself? Why? I feel like a hazard to myself, my arch nemesis is my heart, always holding on to doves that want to fly, to eagles meant for the sky. This is not a wail, no, neither is it a lament, this is a dirge for that part of me that needs to die. My voices agree, it is time my need for affection is laid to rest, or it will paralyze the rest of me. So sing with me, sing in hedonistic harmony, my deceitful heart is dead goodbye propensity.

PS: Alot of my posts are 'whiny'...blame the lemons life keeps handing me... 


Kibali

Friday 2 November 2012

I hate this place I'm at

Woke up today and realized something's gotta give,
because it's evident I've forgotten to live,
much more is required when plenty you receive,
and my heart I can no longer deceive,
I'm clearly in need of reprieve when memories expunged I constantly try to retrieve...

I'm craving mercy but they think I'm foolish,
I'm craving love but they think I'm selfish,
I'm craving purpose but they think I should relish,
attention that's fleeting and praises that diminish.......

I am not wrong for wanting more,
Even the sea wanders and comes back to the shore,
I am not crazy for wanting a door,
To open wide and take me to the happy place I inhabited before......
my soul needs healing, my heart lacks feeling,
my layers and mask need peeling, before I'm brought to the place of kneeling,
I hate this place I'm at, my life burned to ashes and at the hearth I sat,
Now I have become depression's doormat, when I promised myself I'm done with that,
I hate this place I'm at.

Kibali