Tag: present

  • Dying a Death

    The last words I’ll ever hear her speak are, “I’ve still got fight left in me.” Or maybe, “I don’t have no fight left in me.” I distinctly heard “fight left in me.” I asked her how she was.  Dry: “I’m great.” Floated back into her morphine dreams or nightmares. Later, when I was alone…

  • Time Change

    My friend, Lamar, recently posted about living in the past and the future and trying to find balance in the now. It made me think. I only have brief moments of clarity in which I totally feel the now. For example, I live in the now when I realize this or that sucks. When I…

  • Child

    just over two hours left before I am no longer a child officially   I have no memory besides this moment   an undisclosed amount of time before I am no longer a child symbolically   The past and present go deep and I do not want to dive in on the side afraid always…