Mythos & Marginalia

2015 – 2025: a decade of days


j.g.lewis

  • not now

    Do you wonder, as you wander, 

    about the dreams left along the way? 

       Scattered thoughts, they still 

    remind you of the reasons why 

    you remained sheltered from the

    delusions, paying so little attention 

    to the obvious. 

       A little while from now, less than 

    expected (more than you know), 

    what was left over from a generation 

    of pride and greed, misfortune and 

    disease will continue to haunt you. 

       It always does.

       The politics appall you. There is no 

    honour, not in shame nor the 

    cowardice within.  Not now.

     

    10/17/2024                                                                                                    j.g.l.

  • understanding

    Our view of love changes as 

    we age. What we feel, all we know

    to be true, is provided a fresh point of view. 

    We forget, from time to time, what it was 

    when it was something else.

    Perspective.

    All the mental aspects of affection and 

    emotions will overwhelm if given a chance, 

    but for the longest time 

    we did not allow ourselves to know 

    the certain realm, or definite destination 

    of love and all it is capable of. 

    It is more than physical,

    stronger than it has ever been, and 

    strengthened

    over the years and beyond.

    Empathy finds its place amidst

    individual passions. Understanding becomes

    the strongest sense of a relationship.

    As we age, we are capable 

    of something greater, or have we just 

    realized, now, what love can truly be?

     

     

    © 2024 j.g. lewis

     

  • oftentimes

    Today might not be what it is 

    without yesterday being all 

    that it was.

    In a succession of events, 

    unplanned or programmed, 

    rarely do we consider 

    what has happened, 

    as it happens. 

    Sometimes we speak less 

    about things that matter 

    as we think we have 

    more time, as such. 

    Oftentimes 

    we do not speak of 

    things we should 

    as they are happening, 

    in the time that remains. 

    In the time we are given,

    the present persists.

     

    10/15/2024                                                                                                  j.g.l.

  • Mondays are just young Fridays

    Pick up what’s left of the shadow that has been trailing you for a week or three, the one you have noticed even when the sun hasn’t been shining as it should.

       Of course there have been distractions (there always is), even as your nerves are beginning to fray, and all those anxieties still follow you, surprisingly so, on any old day.

       Intermittent rain washes away hopes and plans dreamed on and diminished now. Still, you have the time and, more importantly, you have the mind to make it all happen. You’ve got something more important to say.

     

    10/14/2023                                                                                                                               j.g.l.

     

  • blessings

    Thanksgiving is a day for reflecting on life and the people who make it all that it is. It is a day for celebrating family, those who are with you around the dinner table and those you could not be with.

    I am blessed.

     

    10/13/2024                                                                                                                j.g.l.