Tag: anxiety
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Are We There Yet?
Bracing. Heart racing. Memory tracing Forever facing leaning In every direction at once Quantum, I laugh at you quantum To you it’s all quanta, But if you wanna Know my strong opinion your hedging when you’re keening Fear careening courseward leaning forward And I haven’t even left my chair.
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When Yeats Wrote “The Second Coming”
I wonder if he was really aiming to capture the horrific terror of a civilization swallowing a trauma that will pass through the digestive, nervous, endocrine, and healthcare systems of generations to come (and they keep on coming)… That “face as pitiless as the sun…” gazing outward before slouching toward some vexing cradle… (I don’t…
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Give Us This Day
“Protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of a glorious revolution of empathy where the only rule is golden and we do unto each other as we would have done… One can, and will, dream. Perchance to sleep more soundly.”
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The A(DHD)symptotic Mind
“Sometimes the simplest tasks in my life can be asymptotic. ZeStroh’s Paradox is the variation of Xeno’s Paradox where the task, the simple task of putting the plate into the dishwasher breaks down like a fractal into molecular steps, atomic intricacies, nuclear nodules, protean particulars, electronic elements, and quarky points. Frozen it’s easier to put…
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The feathered flutter visceral churning forget to breathe remember release.
In a world where ignorance breeds fear, the author grapples with unacknowledged truths and the haunting dread of the unknown. This existential struggle reveals that some knowledge is too painful, leaving us paralyzed by night terrors. We are trapped in a cycle of knowing and forgetting, yet always yearning for release.