Mythos & Marginalia

2015 – 2025: a decade of days


a daily breath

  • deception

    We want to know what
    we don’t know, or hadn’t thought of,
    or forgot.

    What mattered then,
    or what mattered when, shifts over time.
    We notice.

    Perception is what you don’t see.
    Deception is what know.
    You see it differently through your aloneness.

    The truth behind a lie,
    you question how and why.
    It made sense.

    Anticipation keeps us waiting
    for only so long. Will it matter
    if you felt it never did?

     

    © 2021 j.g. lewis

  • acts of clarity

    Slow down: even with the ideas that come to quicky. Take the time to acknowledge the feelings that arrive, as they arrive.

     

    Write it down. How else will you remember what you were thinking?

     

    Print neatly. You hardly understand the thoughts at the time, why make it more difficult to comprehend weeks or years from now?

     

    Follow your own logic; only you need to truly make sense of what is happening, or all that has happened.

     

    Pay attention to the lessons of the past. Be mindful that not all are worth repeating.

     

    Clarity. Make corrections as you go. Flaws become more difficult to correct the longer you live with them.

     

    11/14/2024                                                                                                                  j.g.l.

  • cloud songs

                 We exist, at times silently,

                   comfortable in our invisibility.

     

                     Unnoticeably so.

     

                 Unexplained. 

     

               We so know, or learn, when

                          it is time to speak up.

     

    11/08/2024                                                                                                j.g.l.