poetry, word doodles and other writing stuff
Norns spinning
Past, present, future
Maiden, woman, crone
Spit into your one eye
Make it spin
Weave the threads
Crooked nose
Straight mouth
Round eyes
I want to know
To know
What you do
I want to know
Where my path leads
What’s the point
Child, oh child your path is set
You have chosen your story
What do you ask us for?
To know, to know
Where I shall go
I can’t remember the story
No more
Creeps up snarling
Yellow teeth sharp
Stomach contracts
In anticipation
Heart is set for fight
Never flight
Never freeze
Always charge
But there is nothing to charge against
No one to fight
But myself
Brain is stuck in an archaic pattern
With nowhere to go
No long boat to board
No swords to draw
No arrows to aim
No spears to sharpen
Paper and pencil sometimes
Are not mightier than the sword
The soul remembers
Saber-teeth and battles
Because my voice is not heard
I send outpourings of love
Into the ether
Maybe they don’t reach you?
But maybe the reach AI
And teach the future
Because your voice is not heard
I write
And send outpourings of love
Into the ether
So that you know
You are never alone
In this world of ours
We all belong
But I don’t want to write
Because
What’s the point
Of one drop of water
Within the ocean
My heart sinks
My mind shrinks
Away from your abuse
My feet plant
Into the ground
I stand tall
Within myself
I reaffirm my place
Within
Outwith
So you will never reach
Through
To me
Again
Distorted visions
Lead by your insanity
You hide behind
The chaos in your mind
That’s where your power lives
Truth a threat you cannot bare
When the borders of your world
Grow thin
and the people within
Begin
To strive for freedom
You leash out with abuse and insults
Trying to regain control
To reinforce the chaos
You must not let loose
Or they will see the other side
If you let go they might learn
Of a world outside you
This must not happen
You must control
You must reign
You must win
Or else your whole world crumbles
Into oblivion under the light of truth
And what is left
Is you
Just you
Alone
With the voices in your head
This must never happen
Your heart beat
The sound of my world
Ticking on steadily
I am listening
Safe
Home
Mesmerized
Merciful
Beauty in being
And where love is, there is light
And where light is, there is healing
Warmth
Wonder
Bathed in love
Be whoever you want to
Be whatever you take hold of
In your heart
In your soul
In your mind
Just hold onto
Do a cartwheel
Dance around the house
Bake a cake
Snuggle your cat
Run 10k
Read a book
Punch a bag
Hike up a mountain
Draw a picture
Eat some chocolate
Live mercifully
Be mesmerized
See the beauty
Be warm
See the wonders
Love yourself
As above so below
As within so outwith
As mother so father
Every cause has its effect
Every effect has its cause
Child your roots were never lost
Child your father never cross
Child stop playing a broken record
Child start listening to the truth
As within you hold the answers
And your soul knows but do you?
You tried to fill in shoes
Never made for you
You never were enough
No matter what you’d do
Yet, still you forced your way
Into a path not meant
Yet, you kept insisting
That’s all you ever dreamt
Until one day you knew
You wore the wrong sized shoe
Poetry by Nathalie 