I just failed a business and everything is on credit cards. Yes, I’ll take a paycheck for a little while to get out of debt. And yes, if I didn’t leave my career to learn and start business ventures, I would have an extra quarter million in my bank.

Despite my explicit mistakes, I wouldn’t change anything because I am so much more afraid of normalcy. Ambition might have been dampened in my heart...

The forest enchantress of predominately noble intentions lets her powers overrun her during nights like these. The moon is high and any poor souls caught out of place could be in for the worst night of their lives.

The enchantress prepares to dawn her flowing red cape at the pinnacle of her strength. Alas, this power overtakes her and sees her most vulnerable moments of internal torment. Yet... ...

When dreams buckle beneath their weight

And it’s time to move forward,

Realism tells one greatness will have to wait.

When force’d to neglect Momentum’s bell

In a drawn-out Sofie’s choice

To simply allow the past to crumbell,

When I admit breakeven will take a while,

Resaddling my neglected horse

Exacts a humility I cannot reconcile.

I am a new animal

Wiser than before

This time primal.

L...

I have an impressive imagination. I put it to great use to manifest the most majestic fantastical realities for people. Limping Lenny can now leap castle walls, the Bristeltoe orphanage is kept by talking woodland creatures - now placing kids in homes more effectively than ever before. But this wonderful life has quickly become a nightmare when I recently discovered my blessings to the kindest peo...

The crude light of day winds down

To reveal the twinkles beneath the veil

The crunchy day-old snow

Pads the grass below our feet

I stare alone at the expanse

in unison with other longing creatures

Light from the stars

Pin me to the ground, my old commitments, my future failures

Is my capacity limited

To only give this grazing pet the world?

I let the gentle scene

Fuel me as it had decades b...

The brave Jasper, never one to shy from a righteous adventure, trudges into the cave's abyss. He reassures himself aloud that he will find the creature that has terrorized the nearby town, increasingly, almost to protest and drone-out the cacophony of clangs and screeches further into the void.

Then a light appears. A faint end to the tunnel. He approaches and emerges to a scene unrecognizable t...

In the nearest term, each of your - really our- greatest needs of action and reflection are different. Through each journey of discovery, there lies times, one, when it is vital to open your horizons to see what the world has to offer and how your perceptions could all be shattered; and, two, when you must defend your ability to to be willfully blind to ulterior paradigms with clenched knuckles th...

The clouds came down to meet me as I stepped into the clearing. The odd warmth in my soul comes in silent moments like this when I feel most at home. It must be the cold of the morning that bites down my neck just right.

I'm not walking for any reason but to be here. It feels more productive than sitting at home, sleeping, or even my actual livelihood. Something could be found out here. I press ...

Nuggets

Under my tongue

Grandma won't see

Glumps of meat

Each day she feeds

Treacherous amounts

Still she checks I eat every ounce...

Momma can you hear me?

I think my luck's run out!

I don't know if they can forgive

All that they know about.

The rhythm started softly

And then give it time...

Then I started freaking out!

How about 80 in a 30?

Mom. They had to help her out.

I don't know if I can forgive -

My head was in a cloud!

We don't know if they can see

All that I think about...

Who will defend me then?!

Momma can you he...