The answers are far less certain

than even last week, to all those

perennial questions or solutions

you might seek.

What do you believe, or 

what do you believe in?

Come Monday, you have fewer 

questions than you had last week.

For a while there are less doubts

in what you believe. 

Whom do you believe in,

and who believes in you?

11/18/2024                                                                                                          j.g.l.

We want to know what
we don’t know, or hadn’t thought of,
or forgot.

What mattered then,
or what mattered when, shifts over time.
We notice.

Perception is what you don’t see.
Deception is what know.
You see it differently through your aloneness.

The truth behind a lie,
you question how and why.
It made sense.

Anticipation keeps us waiting
for only so long. Will it matter
if you felt it never did?

© 2021 j.g. lewis

Slow down: even with the ideas that come to quicky. Take the time to acknowledge the feelings that arrive, as they arrive.

Write it down. How else will you remember what you were thinking?

Print neatly. You hardly understand the thoughts at the time, why make it more difficult to comprehend weeks or years from now?

Follow your own logic; only you need to truly make sense of what is happening, or all that has happened.

Pay attention to the lessons of the past. Be mindful that not all are worth repeating.

Clarity. Make corrections as you go. Flaws become more difficult to correct the longer you live with them.

11/14/2024                                                                                                                  j.g.l.