Submissions by Katherineaudrey

No man is an island" Is that what they say? Who's they? They, who hold all the answers to the questions we don't even know how to ask yet? Ideas we can only just begin to grasp, yet, we're expected to swim without sinking too low? Am I swimming at all? How am I meant to know?
No man is an island yet an island I am, each time I try to swim its like a tide brings me back in, it's my own tide I know. I've tried to let go, to swim without sinking, to live my life without over-thinking, to dance, to rejoice, without need for drinking.
An island I am, no visitors here just me and my...

I'm standing, I'm walking, everything's fine I've never felt so secure, why is it when that happens we go looking for something, someone, to fall for?
We just want everything to be ok, but ok's not ok because its only ok.
Need something deeper, something more profound, someone to break up all this plain solid ground.
And there they are, that was quick! Here they come, loaded with looks and lines and times that feel like nothing that's been before.
Suddenly everything is so fresh and new, like every single thing holds a bit more meaning and that old wound in the heart is...