Anxiety is love’s greatest killer.
It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
// Anais Nin
MIND: Support
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
// Charles Dickens
SOL: Toxicity
I sunk down into
rock bottom and you welcomed
me with warm embrace.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 126.”
MIND: Repetitions
the courage it took to get out of bed each
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.
// Charles Bukowski
SOL: Tongue-Tied
all his words only
distracted me from the hard
truth – this was not love.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 125.”
MIND: Unsettled
Never let the future disturb you.
You will meet it, if you have to,
with the same weapons of reason
which today arm you against the present.
Meditations // Marcus Aurelius
SOL: Hopeful
I watched you crumble
under the weight of all your
own expectations.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 124.”
MIND: Pathways
The best way to travel, after all, is to feel,
to feel everything in every way,
to feel everything excessively,
because all things are, in truth, excessive
and all reality is an excess,
a violence, an extraordinarily vivid hallucination.
// Fernando Pessoa
SOL: Bookends
I don’t know who the
first person I kissed was, but
for sure you’re the last.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 123.”
MIND: Sadist
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering.
Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
// Thich Nhat Hanh
