You sit in the center of the Mecca sites of socialization. Yet, you are alone - cannot speak to anyone. The unsaid words churn unborn and immature in your chest with a burn that could set this whole place ablaze. Faced with temptation in the midst of the source of your vice, the chatter grows louder - growing prouder of your perception it’s keeping you subdued. All you want is to speak - to feel whole, to exhale, relieve the pressure and rejoin your race together in revelry now. You remember the last time that feeling was yours, and the memory haunts you and disorients you. But, illusory ghosts aren’t real. The curse is from you. The demon is from you and you must exercise to exorcise. To stop, drop, and roll takes action. Move. Otherwise succumb to the fate of the thinker and let the words, feelings, emotions burn in your chest - destined to join the rest of your past in your locked cache of ashes.
Hello, and welcome to Pensive Leaves! Whether you weathered the recesses of the internet to reach these digital shores by course of intent, or perhaps landed here by accident - the result of some algorithmic clicking induced rabbit hole, you've made it! But, where is that? And, just what exactly is Pensive Leaves? That question I can answer easy enough, but it's perhaps the better question, 'what are pensive leaves', that requires more explanation. I'm Garrett, and Pensive Leaves is simply a place for me to share with you, dear reader, fragments, reflections and vignettes of life that intrigue me. Here you'll find anything from poems to musings old and new, and it is my hope that you will also find something that inspires the soul and incites further creativity. My intent with this blog is to be just as much an outlet for myself as it is for you so that we may find in each other kindred spirits. I've always been pas...
Splash Homecoming Aquamarine, to fields so green, you've arrived, finally. Can you smell it? Sit up, open the oculus for the oracles to stir you into the realm of beauty sublime. There... do you hear it? The whistling invisibility proves it's all around you always, It was always eternal. You forgot, but remembered now. Then, do you see it? The trinity of eyes opened again on our subliminal plane, everything is smiling at you. Now. Can you taste it? So close, you can taste it. Every thought held aloft forever, completed it's journey through the proverbial river here, enveloping you in love. And in that embrace, Can you feel it? Welcome home. - Originally written circa 2019 - Garrett
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