Independence In reference to independence- I don’t want it, it’s a hindrance. If you don’t understand please don’t try. This is for those who get drunk and high. Paradoxes are coming this instant. Substances are where we are dependent- Along with ourselves, making us interdependent. We must concede to our innermost self That we’re living …
Author Archives: Joel Prickett
Brighter Side
Brighter Side The dark reveals no light, like pitch black standing alone with your fears. The dark gives no warmth, like cold internal shudders holding back tears. The dark has always been the dark, inversely with light it will always be tied But light, light will always be light, or what I like to call …
LOVE- needs and wants
Love- needs and wants I don’t need reciprocity I need prosperity I want love with velocity I want love with sincerity I don’t need to meet halfway I need a gateway I want love the old-fashioned way I want love like break waves I don’t need compassion I need full expression I want unfathomed passion …
Advice
Advice Some people say not giving advice is the best advice But I think that’s a mental blunder Isn’t saying not to give advice actually advice in itself These things I wonder If I’ve learned anything over the years It’s that I need advice I’ve also learned to give away what I’ve learned And do …
Alone
First understand that alone is not bad Sure,of course, it’s not the life that you had It’s a time of reflection and a time for growing It’s spending time with the Mighty All Knowing You’re not alone, you’re not the only person who’s lost their way These things sometimes happen in our lives but it’s …
When one door closes….
When one door closes Life is life. There’s no blueprint, map or crystal ball, Only your choice of who’ll you bring with you through it all. There’s no telling sometimes of what life poses- how when one door opens another one closes. Or is that backwards? Life is life. When one door closes another one …
Turn
Turn It’s in the moment where I feel most helpless that I need to turn This lesson is simple but sometimes so hard to learn If I’m helpless then I have no answers, I have no solutions for my problems I need to turn to someone who knows how to solve them I used to …
Teeter Totter of Self
Teeter totter of Self Loving self By loving others Helping self By helping others Knowing self By knowing others Forgiving self By forgiving others Teaching self By teaching others Reaching self By reaching others Giving of self For the sake of others Forsaking self For the sake of your self You didn’t foresee that did …
Marriage (Anguish Language)
There was a time when I swore I’d never marry again. Or even open my heart to another. I was in a lot of pain and dealing with much anger. I was in a dark place. I wrote this at that time. (Usually don’t share my dark stuff but It was an outlet for me …
“Nurse!” (Pt. 2)
“Nurse!” (Pt.2) I just got report in the ER and shift change was underway. We were in the midst of the first COvid crisis and stress was already very very high. I’d taken over the care of a very young expecting soon to be (for the first time) mother. She miscarried once. And much had …