RISK FACTORS Once you step off that chair music begins the soundtrack of your life No going back to where the goodness was stroking your hair in the sunlight Muffled sounds of laughter through a wall or

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OUR BRAIN IS A THERMOSTAT Our brain is a thermostat that controls broken mood Dark colours mixed to create a deep black hole So endless that the decent feels like you are held by loving arms instead Of

MAZE OF LOSSES Delusional beliefs create the concrete foundation for your life Journal entries form the shapes and angles and hold the base in place We need help to navigate this maze of wins and losses

PERFECTLY IMBALANCED Creative resilience chemicals perfectly imbalanced Playing well with others as the clocks change Seasons mimic emotions giving in to desire Run away as your hair grows longer and days

PULLING AWAY Mental distress ideas crawling to the front of the mind Fragility cracking shattering dreams and relationships The scope of issues like the ocean lapping at the shore pulling away Pushing

IT IS WHAT IT IS The pain of wondering if your cluttered mind will spill over and ruin everything The guessing if who you believe you are is actually who you're meant to be The questioning if being creative

BE HERE No film or memory cards or holding arms outstretched Looking through eyes rather than a lens that shrinks your life into nebulous pixels Both my hands are on you not fiddling with settings or shutters

Hello Steemians, A friendly reminder about the WhatRUat Radio Show tomorrow night with @doghaus and @buckydurddle. This week with all the madness in our lives, we'll be playing a re-run of one of our old

HANDSHAKING AND SMALL TALKING Handshaking and small talking dressing up and breaking down Socialites and social lights shining on our many imperfections But you have to go you will be missed it just won't

SELF-WORTH Pages shuffled like cards but there are no rules or winners Knowledge accessible but ignored shunned skimmed at best Fleeting whims of fantasy direction passion that never take hold Floating

OVERFLOWETH My brand is original creative clean Professional solo teamless free From strings and questions and doubts Tapping inner potential as the proverbial cup overfloweth Damaging rustic hardwood

THE TRICK Guilt wasted breath dance steps on paper Notes drowned in the shower Words left written in your mind A touch imagined but never realized The end unannounced without applause Magic has always

Hello Steemians, A friendly reminder about the WhatRUat Radio Show tomorrow night with @doghaus and @buckydurddle. Music, poetry and discussions about almost anything and everything! Last week we barely

DUST SETTLES SOFTLY Dust settles softly Upon the ledge where our picture used to stand proud and proclaim our love to everyone but us Dust settles softly In the air as I look out the back window at our

Hello Steemians, A friendly reminder about the WhatRUat Radio Show tonight with @doghaus and @buckydurddle. Music (harmonicas, otomotones, synths, violins, fiddles, guitars and attempts to sing), poetry,

PUNISHMENT Reputation precedes first impressions Listen to chatter or you own gut Because someone is wrong It may be you or those Who claim they know everything Just go along with it why not No one sees

PRAISE Wild emotions hues and shades turning a blind eye to the obvious Enter humility wearing a hat like my great grandfather used to wear because it made him feel taller Exit left because the right gets

NEGLECTING COMFORT The beautiful silence between a look and a glance Words permeate and stain what nothingness simplifies A heartbeat fills the void of loneliness with sound But neglects to comfort those

ONCE IT'S OVER Let them go the thoughts and dreams of possibility Reality hurts and crushes the dreams we believed were attainable But forces work against us we feel panicked fragile useless hopeless Until