Mythos & Marginalia

2015 – 2025: a decade of days


a daily breath

  • 8:14 p.m. 08/14/2024


    It is never too soon

    to take notice of

    an early-rising moon.

    Ever closer to its

    fuller phase, Luna

    holds a charm in

    her certain ways.

    Always a gift, 

    if you choose to 

    lift your eyes.

    An everyday evening,

    still quite a surprise.

     

    08/15/2024                                                                                            j.g.l.

  • clandestine thoughts

    Secrecy and salvation,

    rarely one in the same.

    We seek pleasure where 

    we ought not to, purge 

    clandestine thoughts into 

    ears we should not trust;

    because we are where

    we shouldn’t be. 

    Unknowingly, 

    we will cry tomorrow 

    for the sins of today. 

    Once a habit, it is their way.

    Now. How many times 

    have you forgiven someone, 

    even yourself?

    Do you not remember, or

    even notice, words wasted

    in spite of it all.

    Tell me about pain,

    it’s been years since I have 

    even noticed how it feels 

    to feel like that.

    I cannot know relief, not

    like I used to. Sadly,

    it remains a secret.

     

    © 2024 j.g. lewis

  • Mondays are just young Fridays

           Most of us look,

    some of us see, less of us believe. 

       Division and derision 

    commonplace across our land; 

    perpetrators rarely understand 

    we will not buy 

    what they are selling.

           Already we struggle 

    with thoughts bought and sold to

    the lowest common denominator.

       Do not heed mixed messages 

    hidden in the stories they are telling.

       Most of us say nothing, some of us 

    less, not enough of us speak up. 

       Staying silent costs too much.

           Think for your self.

     

    08/12/2024                                                                                          j.g.l.

  • 08/10/2024

    Don’t lose focus of
    where you want to be
    what you have to do
    and who you really are

    j.g.l.

  • 08/08/2025                                                                                                 j.g.l.