Poem: The Light Never Fades

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Mental health, Poem, Poetry, Time

When pain clings like ivy, when my mind spins a cyclone,

When I want to retreat and when I want be on my own.

When I try to ride it out and make sense of what I want to say,

When I feel lonely and I know I just can’t stay.

I know these times reduce me to shadow, but I hold on to that flicker of light

That just needs time, just needs time to burn bright.

So, no matter what’s fighting me, conquering my mind, body and soul

I’ll try to feed that flame daily, so, in time, I’ll be whole.

Forgive me if I’m casting a low glow – this is sometimes how it gets.

I promise you I’ll return for my sun never truly sets.

Discovery Prompts: Hidden

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Adventure, blogging, Blogging community, Discover Prompts, Discovery Prompts, Time, writing

I liked the suggestion in the prompt regarding items that could be put in a time capsule. I remember doing writing activities like that when I was a kid. Another one was what ten things would you take for a year to survive on a desert island.

These exercises fire the imagination and begin to create the ideas of lives and futures – even if fictional – that’d otherwise be hidden from us.

Anyway, here’s my ten items to put in a time capsule:

1. A photograph of a toucan.
2. A spoon I placed in my neighbour’s flowerbed for about five minutes.
3. A signed copy of ‘Tick Tock Ping A Ding’ by King Henry X.
4. A packed lunch with some used staples.
5. A spanner with a small engraving of a shamrock.
6. A shamrock with several large engravings of spanners.
7. Geoff/Jeff.
8. Eagle Sawdust Soundclub Track.
9. A well acted scene from 4 films: you decide.
10. Crafty Lalbanor and his guide to packing spoons, shamrocks, staples and other stuff in time capsules.

The metal box that contains these items shall have a label on the front that reads ‘Open on 27th November 2156 or before if you want to watch Cagney and Lacey’.

The box will be buried by a rocky outcrop on some faraway moon about 3 minutes from my dad’s t-shirts.

It will be opened in a time of peace.