Watching a Japanese drama on Netflix… Everyone is so blind to love or blindfolded, as the case may be When love comes willingly to us we turn it away suspicious of the source embarrassed by the attention ashamed at our lack of worth We can feel love’s presence but we’re conditioned not to see it [...]
Tag: denial
Time has rules (A poem)
Ah, the things that movie quotes bring up! This poem starts with a line from Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence… ‘The past…again and again…’ What of it? What does it do but remind me of all the mistakes I’ve made? All the unfulfilled promises now left wanting because I now want what I didn’t [...]
Denial of access (A poem)
Is this Monday? Then I don’t get it… How do I convince the gatekeepers to let me in? They don’t have to let me stay but they could at least give me a chance The dramatis personae may change but isn’t that good for the play? Certainly different actors bring different things to their roles [...]
The numbers (a poem)
Yesterday was one of those days where I was largely unsatisfied with my writing. I thought this poem, written while watching Lost, turned out okay, though… I don’t fear the numbers In fact, I see all too clearly what they are enough to make me want to turn away in search of solace But I’ve no one [...]
