Performance Anxiety (a poem)
I walked out of the din, wandered into the yard. I never thought performing would be so damned hard.
I walked out of the din, wandered into the yard. I never thought performing would be so damned hard.
All those years piling on layers of my own design, deep and unyielding, packed tight by every boot that walked over me…
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Celebrate what we have been given: this immeasurable gift of expression…
hand in hand, we left that day, together, come rain or shine.
the longer i live, the more i see, it’s true that love is blind.
As someone who believes in God and who tries to follow the teachings of Jesus, it pains me to say this but…
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The waves are crashing over me, while life is rushing past. I try to stay above the water but hope is sinking fast.
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My thoughts turn, yet the air about me lies still, undisturbed. Tranquility without, while inside I spin.
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I have been thinking, a lot, the last two days—about who I want to be in this moment.
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