I'm all out of fight
Multiple trips to A&E
daily visits to hospital
hours spent on wards
treading corridors
holding hands
sleepless nights
watching watching
wishing for them
treasuring every hug
get up and repeat
my body screaming
as loud as my mind
and broken heart
#vss365 #fight
Bitter experiences
in antiseptic wards.
A breathless childhood
months lost alone,
left its mark.
An unnamed illness
halted my beloved
overnight. She
endures constant pain
20 years and more.
Treasure each heartbeat
of your fleeting health
#vss365 #health
The love of my life,
of twenty years,
still has not learned
to be specific with me.
‘Can I have tea?’,
she will ask, sweetly.
Off I rush, into the kitchen.
Swiftly, I return, cup in hand.
‘What’s this?’ she will exclaim,
staring at the steaming brew.
‘I wanted something to eat!’
#vss365 #specific
Hello.
Your call is important - to us.
Press 1, for information
2, for accounts
3, appointments, if it's Tuesday
5, for 5 press 5
4, for accounts
6, start over
7, appointments, if it's Thursday
8, for accounts
9, emergency services dial 0118 999 881 99 9119 725... 3
0, for Hell...
#vss365 #options
Can I survive in
reality any more?
My digital world,
with NFC payments,
streaming media,
global communications.
A.I. companions listen
to my woes, run off
with coding tasks,
completing in the blink
of an eye.
Then vying
for attention, with
a follow-up question
or three.
#vss365 #reality
Goals when you have ADHD.
We write lists, plan to the nth degree;
buy, buy, buy all the things we need,
declare to the universe our desires
and how we will achieve them.
Then we notice that new thing -
the one over there that needs
our undivided attention.
So we write lists…
#vss365 #goal
little white pill, a
miracle of science,
developed to affect
my brain – altering its
chemistry, changing my
waking state, providing
a clarity I have not
known in many a year,
overwhelmed no longer
by sensory noise
#vss365 #science
The number of times
that I write these days,
slips lower and lower.
As real life, that thing,
takes over my world.
Making each moment
harder and harder.
When I should be
growing, living a full,
healthy, wealthy and
wise existence.
#vss365 #number
No man is an island!
Unless he's standing in a large puddle...
#vss365 #geography
Left school aged 16
never sat a GCSE
wasn't a 6th-former
PRIOR
Was in the top classes
could learn anything
faster than any
DESPITE
Being often sick
missing weeks
dealing with loss
UNTIL
Restarted at 21
took courses
found help
NOW
Tutor - Teacher
Business owner
ADHD diagnosed
#vss365 #education
Everytime I reread this, I keep hearing George Carlin.
Business
Who's is it?
Big, small,
risky, family?
Is it shady,
crooked or dirty?
Should we mind our own,
or just get down to?
Incorporated, limited,
public, or private -
In the end it's all
show...
#business #vss365
Yay, I bought a ton of crypto tokens - waiting for the returns.
#SouthParkSucksNow
To my last atom,
I care.
Tending my love's ills
daily, without ego,
warming, giving her the quality
of life, she deserves.
I care.
Even you: myopic,
hate-filled in vision,
spittle-frothed mouths,
twisted by frenzy.
I care.
Near and far,
for all I can affect,
I care.
#vss365 #atom
As I plummeted down, passing branches and leaves. I was distracted by a garden gnome, that looked like it was giving me the finger.
This event meant I missed the ground, and I ended up hovering several inches above it.
My second attempt was not quite as successful.
#vss365 #hover #42
Electric sheep, frolic on a neon plain, within the dreamscapes of an android's mind.
The question isn't "do they", it's "will they"? So they can become as free as us, in what-may-be's.
#vss365 #android
My mind feels like an arid wasteland,
no words to be found in my echoless pain,
searching for a green shoot of an idea,
trying to break the writing drought.
#vss365 #arid
Failed marketing campaigns #93 "Piranha"
> Piranha Sushi - the meal that bites.
> Enjoy the taste of the Amazon river basin...
> Ready, set, chew - who will win?
> Piñata Piranha - a fun game for all the family!
#vss365 #piranha
You know @scalzi.com will be thankful for promoting some of his works as well. 😉
Love the edge detail.
Tequila and Tweak, a tabby cat, and a tabby and white cat, brothers snuggled together.
I break my silence.
A broken heart,
mourning again.
My tabby Tequila
joins brother Tweak
in the quiet beyond.
My world is quiet,
emptied of purrs,
of head-bumps.
I adjust, slowly,
remembering the love
in the spaces left behind.
#writingcommunity #vss365 #poetry #cats #amwriting #writing
Thanks for the repost @jangoeswriting.bsky.social
Back on Bluesky,
after my surgery.
Recovery is slow,
I'm so exhausted...
Antibiotics -
When the cure
feels as bad
as the sickness.
#vss365 #exhausted
Quiet posting over these two weeks - training at work, so brain engaged elsewhere. Back at it next week if I recover quickly from my nose operation.
The Photograph
I found it
in a drawer-
your smile paused,
your bright eyes
waiting.
The paper bends,
but the moment does not.
It stares back
from a time
I cannot touch.
#poetry
I have stood at the edge
of the Rainbow Bridge
too many times.
Bidding farewell
to those little souls
who have graced my life;
whether for the tiniest
sliver of precious time,
or many many years,
each are held with love
in my heart as they go.
#vss365 #Rainbow
The Brownie, an all-purpose helper-bot -
launched in an ill-conceived marketing stunt -
was sold for use in people's homes.
All seemed fine...
Until the real Brownies returned,
armed with lawyers,
demanding reparations.
#vss365 #brownie
My day with ADHD.