Emotion, before all else - Photo Meditations

Don't think you have to conceal

how you feel

if it's real

It takes more courage to cry

than it does to deny

So, if you want my advice . . . it's like this;

Feel everything

but just learn to control the feeling.

Don't deny

Don't suppress

Don't turn your back on something you really should be looking at.

Don't play the Stoic - or the Sceptic - or the Cynic.

Don't kid yourself into the whole Nihilist thing . . .acting like none of this really matters anyway

No - trust me; It matters

Everything matters

That's why you feel it all so intensely.

So - what are you doing to do; just pretend you're not as emotional as you are?

Or numb the sensitivity?

Or train yourself to live half a life?

Well - ok

give it a go, if you want

But, take it from me

living life in a perpetual grey sky is never going to work out too well.

We're supposed to be out here writing poems about the stars

And enraptured by sunsets

And romanced by blue skies

And inspired by the clouds

And depressed by the rain

And cursing the frost

And damn near terrified of the storms too - if they come for us.

We're supposed to feel it all

Hope - Despair

Dreams - Nightmares

Sunlight - Moonlight

Everything

Then, no matter what this life of ours may bring

at least we know that we are here.