To Know the Light You have to Know the Dark. Too much of either makes for some very bad ideas.

Sometimes,

when the medication

wears thin

or the metaphors

to self

medicate margins,

which won't rub

too much of you

off, crumble

against your own immunity

to make magic

you have to believe in,

you think only

with cornered thoughts.

Find the paint

and the way

to stroke it

to make a door

you can see

your way through.

It's a choice

of course

that you start

by putting one foot

in front of another

in any direction

with faith in the assumption

that a better place

to see from

will find you.

Even if you can't

see it now.

We can never

be wise but

we can aspire

to wisdom.

We may never

create lasting meaning

but the meaning

we create now

can still have magic,

making the journey

and what is

journeyed through

something worth loving.

Meaning is

what we make of it

understanding

that choosing

and making

are what rub

belief every which way

we can imagine.

And thus doubt

is the only certainty

and certainty

the only thing

worth the trouble

of doubting.

The bigger picture

will always have

a lot of dark spots

but its in

the shadows

that we find

the contrasts.

Keep faith

in that bigger picture

what ever the Fuck

it “really” is

because there is

magic in there

if we choose to see it.