worries – Poetic Meanderings

Nightmare

The long moments after waking from a deep and dark dream, the kind that carries an oppressive, choking feeling on its shadowy back that continues to hold you as you wake; you try to erase the images, but they remain, and so you stay, eyes open in the dark, your beloved sleeping peacefully next toContinue reading “Nightmare”

Insomnia

“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?” ― William Shakespeare The thoughts just cycle, a continuous din, and no counting of sheep can quiet the waves of faces and questions, what ifs and whatContinue reading “Insomnia”

God Alone

And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. —Ephesians 3:18 We have moments of clarity, soul-deep perceptions, when in epiphany we are tucked in the love of God, quiet and aware enough to soak in the truth ofContinue reading “God Alone”