Before you can fly, you have to let go of that which makes you feel safe.

You cannot, at the same time, be on the ground and in the sky.

Loving someone is so much like that. You have to let go of the things that hold you back .

– JmStorm –

We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit we have…Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life into a living hell. Accept them for what they are, just another aspect of the mind’s creation, and you can enjoy them—if you choose—without being broken by them.

– Zeena Schreck –

Poem written by Adam A. DeFranco

my body

has become this land

my exponetial flesh

part of the whole world

who is to say

where one ends

and the other begins

this is a planet of light

torches and burning buddhas

inside every tree

is the heart of a temple

far in the valley

is a wild church

with ancient tablets

everywhere are gardens

and we are just beginning to see

there is nothing disappointing

about existence

it is totally self centered

on everything

every flight

begins with a fall

you are thunderstorms

going against the wind

the soul of everything

these antedulvian atoms of existence

cleansing the air

© AD