Glorious

Glorious

Little bits of stress One blade at a time The subtle grass The lost rhymes Half of my days Spent in fantasy Bent in a haze What I was supposed to be Everything Fine locks Weak trees Broken At the knees Is it just mind set Pretending to be at ease But I’m not Thriller...
Singing to a Room of Strangers

Singing to a Room of Strangers

Bear woke up this morning feeling tragically sad, almost in despair. Coming through loud and clear in his dreams and then hovering over his head like a levitating liquid mirror was a reality so painful that he gasped. He realized that it might be the case that he...
The Spider and the Liquid Mirror

The Spider and the Liquid Mirror

The surface of the water is a very curious and unique place.  From the sky, the water shimmers blue and green and bounces rays of light in a million directions.  From the land, the waves in the ocean turn creamy white with trillions of tiny bubbles and crash onto the...
Bi-Polar New Year’s Birthday Blessing

Bi-Polar New Year’s Birthday Blessing

It was the morning of New Year’s Eve, 2014 in Las Cruces New Mexico.  Inside, the hotel heater hummed hot air into the dark room and outside the gray sky was bright with a frigid, bone-crushing cold.  Bear tried to sit this morning and meditate but could not....
If you had one wish …?

If you had one wish …?

Six months ago, I would not have believed that any of this was possible.  The girl, the car, the house, the money, the lights, the people.  Six months ago, I was sitting in a tiny one bedroom apartment twiddling my fingers and writing a song on my guitar, but now, I...
Visualizing a Dream

Visualizing a Dream

When Bear was a child, he used to love to go to the fountain at the center of town in the mornings.  The mist would cling to the old cobblestone walkway as he stepped gently along, careful not to disturb the comforting and rare morning silence.  It was never easy to...