Darkness waiting for the slightest provocation… — This yawning black is Looking back at me Like I knew she’d be, Peeking from a distance Just beneath my periphery I’m trying to focus on what is But she’s everything that isn’t A prism of shadow Hypnotizing twilight My eyes flutter in the half-light And suddenly I’m at the bottom of the stairs Staring at the first step again And the riser…

Humanity needs to reevaluate how we consume and teach history, but are we even capable of doing so? History is not the past. It is not a straight line with a beginning, middle, and end. Rather, it is a spiraling circle, teetering at a slight axis. It curves into itself…

“He knows religion is bollocks,” Collingswood said. “He just wishes he didn’t.” — China Miéville, Kraken — “He can’t come back until the universe has seen the results of sin.” was something I heard a lot growing up. As if the universe hasn’t seen rape and rapine for centuries. …

Fear is a wolf… — Defined by Fear Deified and capitalized by An overactive imagination That taught our ancestors how to survive Cavemen staring at the fire Blinded by its light Yet no less frightened of the sounds (The howls, the growls) Made by invisible beasts of the night Yet didn’t we make friends of wolves Once our friendly flame gave them shape? Now we keep…

The most essential part of any end-time preparation! — The sky is falling Slowly But surely The end that we had all read about (All ends come too early) A meteorite The size of an island Burning in the atmosphere So massive That it looks as if it’s sitting in place Moving glacially Making us falsely believe that we had any Time to waste…

“The meaning of the name ‘Yahweh’ has been interpreted as ‘He Who Makes That Which Has Been Made’” — World History Encyclopedia — History controls the past, Possibility controls the future. I only control the small pocketful of time right in front of me. And even in that, I’m a little behind. But in this pocket I am Alpha, I am Omega. I am my past, sure. But more than that, I am…