Distrust of Owning

Harvesting sustenance and intrigue without:

Stifling, closet stuffed regrets and dust

Going from sports car, to oxidized rust

I don't want this forever 

Yet I want all the same

How many moves before I settle or claim 

My distrust of owning

My flickering sight of 

What could be past the next corner of sight.

EVE Featherstone

A Purpose to Strife

How far out can one go

In human's small range?

How much will a vice crimp

A desire to taste?

Not even a habit, an addiction or fate

Can prevent a deep passion or choice to create

The far, the exotic, the ancient, the bold

All draw the wandering 

Soul to unfold

Perhaps not to greatness, health or long life

But who is to say if there's a purpose to strife?

EVE Featherstone

crimp - have a limiting or adverse effect

vice - an immoral or unhealthy habit

strife - incompatibility between people

Sarcasm

Many of you attain a level where you realize sarcasm is no longer an option.  At this point, sarcasm is like a gun; if you use it on someone you kill something or at the very least, hide behind it to vent rage and/or resentment. What you kill with sarcasm could have been the door to productive decisiveness, trust and/or authenticity. Sarcasm prevents authentic responses.  It is a covert form of hostility deemed harmless because of its pervasiveness and use as a catalyst for humor.

-EVE Featherstone

The Dark We Keep

For that shadow inside us feeds

Primarily on climbing and greed

Sprouting forth from patience and seed

The higher from an egg that bleeds

Its fruit through heavy labor

Seeks more another's favor

To sabotage the self love deep

Which illuminates

The dark we keep.

EVE 

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