Mythos & Marginalia

2015 – 2025: a decade of days


open space

  • only words

    our space filled
    with random words
       incautiously chosen

         graffiti
    staining the façade
    of our everyday view

          peace
             love      faith
       unity

         like poetry
    nothing is how it seems
               not now

       only words
       we must question
    what each one means

         despite our feelings
    how can we not believe
          everything we read

    10/27/2023                                                                                            j.g.l.

  • convinced

    The lines outline where we are, in
    moments and more. Each step
    we take, each day we make some
    sort of mark on the landscape.
    Our life, as temporary as it seems,
    continues to pass us by.
    Season by season.
    We must embrace the reminders
    of who we are, not what we
    have been. Like where you are
    will constantly change from
    where you have been.
    At times it is a blur.
    We remain convinced by this
    confusion, and seldom make the
    right assumptions, in the moments
    where we wish to define ourselves.

    10/24/2023                                                                                           j.g.l.

  • dare we glance back?

    Is this world as fractured
    as we are led to believe?
    Politically, ideologically,
    or spiritually, fault lines
    are obvious.
    It is not superficial.
    Are all thoughts jumbled
    or is that just me?
    Can we look ahead? Dare we
    glance back? What was there?
    Is what we see now all
    that is worth knowing?
    Can we learn more?
    Do we want to?
    Do we need to?

    © 2020 j.g. lewis

  • 10/19/2023

    Today is as good as it gets.

    Maybe tomorrow will be better?

    10/19/2022                                                                                          j.g.l.

  • reminders

    My therapist reminded me, yesterday, of a phrase she had used before and one I had heard a long time ago. 
       They were wonderful words that I had forgotten, somehow, caught up in all I have been doing, or in things I have been trying to understand or attempting to accomplish. 
       It is a simple phrase I need to remember more often: We are human beings, not human doings. 
       Our goal, above all else, should be to simply be without thinking, or overburdening ourselves with all we are trying to be . . . even all we are trying to understand. 
       Instead, we often get caught up in all we are doing, and most of us try to do so much or are involved in too much. 
       It becomes too much. 
       We are all human. 
       I was reminded later in the day of something I had written to myself a long while back. It is something I need to remind myself of more often: You are only human; so is everybody else. 

    10/17/2023                                                                                                   j.g.l.