As a child I moved through life joyfully.Days and weeks bled into months and years.Not a care in the world as we played and laughed.Games and toys, imagined lands and timeless sands.Curiosity and intrigue, the realms of the impossible opened.Create and crave, inspire and desire, the impossible now possible.Then, almost over night, it stopped.Like a… Continue reading Living to be Destroyed
Tag: psychology
Quantum Consciousness
I was sitting in my flat and contemplating two things: the recent full mapping of the neurons in a slice of human brain, and the soon-to-be-launched new Google quantum computer. I recall reading that, due to our brain being organic, it’s impossible for us to know its true memory capacity, but that it’s estimated to… Continue reading Quantum Consciousness
Separate
You awake from a dream.A dream awakens from you.Ask yourself, how to separate the two?You are moved into action.Action starts with you.Ask yourself, how to separate the two?It's they who love you.It's you who loves them.Ask yourself, how to separate the two?Your life ends in death.Death brings life anew.Ask yourself, how to separate the two?
The Sensing
You can hear the growling through its labouring breath.You sit, panting and sweating.The remnants of your arm,Like fleshy wet ribbon. You can hear the scratching through the creaking floor.You sit, shaking and trembling.The persistence of your fear,Like sins never forgiven. You can see the breaking through the shattering door.You stand, hastening and quickening.The insistence of… Continue reading The Sensing
Coming Home
He was walking along the dimly lit street back toward his house. The glow from his cell phone was the only forward-facing illumination, as he held it tightly in his hand. At 23 years old he was a young man. He never got scared now, not like when he was a child. No longer was… Continue reading Coming Home
Mathew James Ford 