“All these mirrorscarnival distortionsof selves we never were.”

“We all have our safe places, where none are invited. They are lonely rooms full of the musk of memory. Sanctuary rather than adventure.”

“Those masks we wear not to shield others; but ourselves from who we are.”

“There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.”

“I want to douse myself in silver words and whisper away all rue.”

“Tired of the sea,I need a tree that will hold my thoughts with birdsong;not tides returning them along the shoreline to laughing gulls.”

“Thoughts as warm as a silky summer rain, flowing over the edge of my soul's gentle.not tides returning them along the shoreline to laughing gulls.”