Mythos & Marginalia

2015 – 2025: a decade of days

j.g.lewis

  • Mondays are just young Fridays

    One year since. . . 

       The death toll rises each day in this certain uncertainty. A geopolitical conflict, its consequences spilling out across this planet and onto the streets of my city. Distanced from the direct atrocities of another war, it is more than tension we feel in the neighborhoods where we live.

       Every day the headlines speak to me. Every day there are more questions than answers.

       How many bombs?

       How many dead?

       How many prayers?

       How many times, in my lifetime, have I heard about the possibility of Middle East peace?

       I, still, can only try to understand.

       I too live with the fear, the grief, and the polarization of it all.

     

    10/07/2024                                                                                                                j.g.l.

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  • waiting

    What are you waiting for?

    I’m listening.

     

    10/06/2024                                                                                                                              j.g.l.   

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  • It’s not nothing

    I would like to think it is nothing, at least I’d like to try. I know I can’t, but I will fool myself into believing it was less than what it is (I’m gullible that way).
       Still I know, deep down, it was more than what I was expecting. Certainly it was more than what I was prepared for.
       It’s always something; really, anything is.
       There is something in anything, worthwhile or not, that captures your imagination or sends your soul circling.
       Nothing matters then.
       It is always more than what you were counting on, even when there is nothing to compare it to.
       Always unlike anything else, you try to twist and turn it into something familiar, or something you can relate to, all the while knowing that nothing has been like that, or felt like this: ever.
       Yeah, it’s like that.
       It’s not nothing, but it can’t be everything. . . or maybe it is.

    © 2017 j.g. lewis

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  • distractions

       Potential votes 

    bought and paid for with platitudes, 

    empty promises and misguided hope. 

       Political ideology must be more than 

    cleverly-crafted slogans with hidden intent, 

    bumper sticker mentality and 

    fortune cookie philosophy. 

    Common sense distractions lead to inaction. 

       Dishonesty with no empathy overrides 

    the absurdity of it all. 

       It is not right, and we are left 

    wondering about economic uncertainty 

    and this country’s future.

     

    10/03/2024                                                                                                                  j.g.l.

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