From The Daily Couplet:
9/1/17
The new is tar in which my thoughts will sink.
Boring routines will give me space to think.
9/2/17
Walk out of any room where there's no love
And write a tale that you're the hero of.
9/3/17
If I loved myself half as much as I
Love the unworthy, oh, how high I'd fly!
9/4/17
Safety is knowing what you'll do for weeks.
Adventure never sees beyond your cheeks.
9/5/17
The door I fear to open guards a room
Of terrible rewards, not pain and doom.
9/6/17
I love the new, but it's the same old game:
When strangeness beckons, I reach for the same.
9/7/17
In all of history, no one's been you.
Don't waste that doing what the rest can do.
9/8/17
You always know who misses you the most:
The great reach out; the rest fade like a ghost.
9/9/17
Want to make haters feel incompetent?
Treat all their insults like a compliment.
9/10/17
Anger congests us till we fume and sputter.
Forgiveness cleans out all that nasty clutter.
9/11/17
Those born to a belief may be dogmatic
But converts live their creed like a fanatic.
9/12/17
Escape in fiction gets looked down on by
The jailers who say all art must be high.
9/13/17
Fear whispers--my soul sinks beneath the floor.
But just a breath of hope can make it soar.
9/14/17
The more we feed the hate of push and shove,
The less we listen to the voice of love.
9/15/17
(After Blaise Pascal)
All mankind's woes are meat on this one bone:
We can't sit quiet in a room alone.
9/16/17
Compassion weaves when heartless cuts the cord.
When hate is king, love is the rebel's sword.
9/17/17
It's only when I'm all alone and free
That I feel like I'm in bad company.
9/18/17
When my corrupted drives are all cleaned out,
There's still the back-up server of self-doubt.
9/19/17
The things that hurt us most we'll call a treasure
And let them kill us--if they give us pleasure.
9/20/17
It's Life when every answer to our cries
Is just another question in disguise.
9/21/17
It's all about what solitude can teach us
And those who care enough to try to reach us.
9/22/17
Shame is a cannibal--it always eats
Itself, till you're weighed down by your defeats.
9/23/17
Speak tolerance to hate--he never hears it
Because it's loving, and because he fears it.
9/24/17
Power responds to rebels with complaints
By killing them—then making them its saints.
By killing them—then making them its saints.
9/25/17
Never tell narcissists that you adore them--
Because it's what they want to hear, you'll bore them.
9/26/17
The high road will become your status quo
When you ditch those who make you take the low.
9/27/17
Fools take for granted their deep friends' ovation
And fish the shallows for appreciation.
9/28/17
The hardest things in life to let go of
Are those that cling to my lack of self-love.
9/29/17
Obey this sign and lift depression's fog:
DO NOT FEED THE NEGATIVITY DOG.
9/30/17
The world says I must give each waking thought
To what it calls "important"--or I'm not.
Copyright 2017 Matthew J Wells
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