Little Doubt

When your eyes are closed,
your mind won't sleep.
Old figures haunt and hover
and wince and weep.
They reach out to touch,
but they scratch you deep
and they whisper sweet-nothings,
but talk is cheap.

So, you think that you're quite
over it now.
It's a promise you've made
to yourself, a vow,
and those voices are faint
so you disavow,
but you're not sure of who or what
or even how.

Yet, gentle hands and soft eyes
help to remind you
that Good comes
in batches of few
and far between,
but true.
Somewhere in your heart you guessed,
but never knew.

Let time drag your
old habits out,
kicking and screaming
and whaling about.
Lay history to rest
and take a different route.
In gentle hands and soft eyes,
let there be little doubt.

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I've been quiet for a while. Oops. Life has been life-y and busy. Lots of things have changed since the last time I posted anything (back in November), both personally and professionally. Whether by fate or by luck or by accident, I'm taking a new path.

I wrote this last week, but things at work got crazy last week and I never got around to appropriately tweaking it until now. It's about how you'll always have your demons, but you shouldn't shut out your saints.








"I try to will myself away while shouting habits plead their case. So when the sun sears through my eyes, my beggar's brain can't compromise. I splash cold water. I draw the curtains. I stay inside." Kevin Devine You'll Only End Up Joining Them

"But I'll walk my own road. I'll go where you won't go. You won't put me through hell. 'Cause now I see through you. Believe what you need to. Go haunt someone else." - Kevin Devine Go Haunt Someone Else

"I don't want to live like I'm dead anymore, so keep that away from me." Kevin Devine Wait Out The Wreck