the more somber side of life: May 2013

WELCOME
..and here are a few things to keep in mind:

This blog contains mostly my poetry and a few thoughts from time to time. The thoughts will be entered when and wherever I feel necessary to keep things in proper order. Thoughts and things not belonging to me will be denoted with asterisks. Poems will be archived by the date which they were written, not by that which they were posted. I tend to update things a month or few after being written so as to keep current issues from wandering unattended around the web.

Enjoy...

[somberlife was first created July 11, 2004]

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Crush my Perfectionist Soul

Do what you're supposed to, you won't get in trouble
Do what you supposed to, still get in trouble

I lose faith in all institutions of the world
And it crushes my perfectionistic soul

Five/30/13
Via Siri and Notes

Sunday, May 26, 2013

The messages with the way I dress

The messages with the way I dress:
- to the questionable people, not all good people look good
- to the good people, not all people who look questionable are
- to my parents, it wasn't just a phase, I'm not going to grow out of it
- to my church family, if I can't be myself at church, you have the wrong expectations
- to my husband, I'm still the crazy little girl that you married
- to myself, I'm still making my own way through life, I've survived my struggles, but I've no desire to forget them

ses
via Nexus 7