#athousandsunsets

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

You haven't seen it yet, after all this time. but you are the light - you have always been the light.

#writingpromt #randomthoughts #left hand of darkness #athousandsunsets

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

reaped.

you could have finished me when you had the chance. now it is simply too late. let us now reap what you sow.

#athousandsunsets #looking back #thoughts #forged #reap what you sow

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

flick a switch

My friend, You told me that this all has become too heavy, and that you can no longer endure carrying the pains of the others. You think of giving up, but you know you cannot give up. It is only your nature to love and to love so deeply, to feel the suffering of all the lives we deliberately decide to turn our eyes away. But it is killing you, my friend. So I have a little suggestion here, and I think you might want to hear it. Let me be the one who carries all the pains. Yours and that of others. Let you do the thing you are so good at - loving. Let us let you love without all the suffering, and lift off the burdens you cannot carry. Carrying the burdens is, on the other hand, something I'm good at, precisely because I cannot love that deeply. Let people like me play the dirty part, so that people like you can continue to exist, and to give love.

#letter to a friend #writing prompt #athousandsunsets #thoughts #conversations with friends #people

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

nothing personal

The thing is, I'll always love the game more than I will ever be able to love you, or anyone else. You have known this from the start, now tell me why are you still crying? tell me, why are you still standing in the way?

#thegoals #athousandsunsets #no other way #nothing personal

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

assumption

You say I've built myself into a fortress yet beneath this armour, there is some soul that is vulnerable. And since you ask, here's the truth: beneath this, there is only solid rock. I have, instead, tried to soften myself down - took years and years to learn how to wear my skin so that it won't scare you away.

Now that you know the secret, will you still want to try me?

#writing prompt #thoughtwhilewalking #randomthoughts #athousandsunsets #forged #ivekeptmywords

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

the best sunsets of a thousand sunsets

Dearest,

You wrote to me that you can't wait to be all about something else bigger than yourself, as it's getting so tiring to just think for yourself all the time.

It is surely just around the corner now, my dear. The perfect storm, the purest and most marvelous sunlight, the best light, the best sunsets out of a thousand sunsets that your eyes have savoured, are just around the corner now, waiting for you to appreciate with all of your being. But dearest, my wish for you, on the other hand, and this is something I have learnt lately, is that you will taste one single moment to its fullest. I know it is so hard for you now, as your mind always wanders to search for all possibilities. Oh dear, how exciting it is to live all the possibilities and the impossibilities of all those unwritten paths. But, do stay in the now. You have not discovered yet the fullest possibilities of the now. The excitement and the potential, the fun of all of the present elements. My dear, stay in this moment. Drink the present to its last drop. Be there when you are needed there, or not even needed.

#writingprompts #lettertoyouinthefuture #thoughts #athousandsunsets #living in the now #living #oceanair

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

luck of the draw

Dearest,

We are just so incredibly lucky to be where we are right now. And of course, we can proudly say that we've worked really hard too. No doubt about it, we both have forged our minds and hands into productive tools.

But we're able to be here also because we are spoiled children of the universe. Because there are also millions and millions of people who have been working way harder than us, every single day of their lives, in the middle of heatwaves, in the middle of abuse and extreme inequality, and they ain't have shit. 

We are just spoiled children of the universe. We could have been assholes and junkies, getting drugged to work in order to get more drugs, but we are not. We could have been shallow and stupid, drinking streams of champagne without tasting it, but we are not. We could have been obsessive, trying everything to get thinner without caring about what's beneath their skins, but we are not. 

So cheers to this incredible luck of being who we are and where we are. Life has been too generous for souls like us. I could drink to this every single day of my life. 

#randomthoughts #gratitude #writing prompt #luck #athousandsunsets

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

I’ve kept my words.

I’ve realised it now, just in time, how many lifetimes before facing the same question. Glimpses of the past, in hundreds of different cities and harbors, kept coming back in front of my eyes - demanding a response. I remember this unfulfilled wish, the yearn for a uneventful existence  but then I remember too - to have always been choosing to make amends. And gladly so.

So I know what I’d do now, after all this is no surprise. I’d kiss goodbye to that dream of a wooden shack, to be back to where I find my true sobriety lying amidst storms and raging waves. 

#writingprompt #thinkingofthepast #thepresent #facingtheocean #athousandsunsets

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

fear of strings.

In the end, all the things I've burnt down without care, or been trying to run away from, will come back asking me for closure.

#writingprompt #before the storm #bytheocean #attachement #fear of intimacy #fearofstrings #karmaishere #askingforclosure #stop hiding #athousandsunsets #sunsets #sunsetsbytheocean #thatwillneverbeme

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

Dear birds of the sea, Finally, I've found the place to be among you. Finally, I've found my place to stay.

#athousandsunsets #writing prompt #writingprompts #atlanticocean #generosity #birdsofthesea #a place to call home

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

Dear birds of the sea,  you have no idea how envious I am towards you.

#writing prompt #athousandsunsets #atlantic ocean #birdsofthesea

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

i can’t love you more.

She whispered to my ears - I can still love you so much more. This is some fleeting desire that will wear itself out through time. She will love me more than the ocean, than the birds of the West, than a sky full of stars could ever do.

I looked her in the eye, for she has been so generous to us both. It was her who took me in when I was lost, hurt and full of rage. She has given me so much, and taken so much as well.

These years it took for me to learn how to love her right cannot be erased. This love cannot be undone. Still...there is just no reason left to stay.

I'm sorry, I cannot let you love me more.

I cannot love you more. 

#goodbye #writingprompts #adieu #icannotloveyoumore #breakingup #citylights #blinding lights #thebeginningofwinter #winter solistice #sunsets #athousandsunsets #a thousand splendid suns #noreasonstostay #leaving #whatispastispast #generosity #movingon

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

Not yet the time.

But of course, I'll continue my path it is not yet the time for me to stay. Curse me as much you want for I forget it all once the bridge is crossed. I'm grieving for things that have not yet happened, so that when they’re actually here, I'm already on the other side.

#shootingstars #notyet #steeryourway #writing prompt #salt marshes #crossingthebridge #poem #poetry #sunsets #athousandsunsets #notimetoremember #whatispastispast #on the other side

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

It happened so it lives on

It was a beautiful garden that we created together. And it lives on despite my efforts to burn it all down. It happened so it lives on.  I wish I knew better. that I didn't have to blow everything up just to turn a page. that I didn't have to rage a massacre to mask my hurting. that if I broke their hearts I would find myself trapped inside. I wish someone would tell me,  that I don't have to fight anymore, for the wars have ended. that I no longer have to kill in the name of anything ever again, I wish someone would show me,  that here's nothing left to protect, for all is protected. And that no one's going to get hurt if they get close to me.  And that people will understand when I cannot give them what they ask of me, all the time.

#writingprompt #poem #athousandsunsets #in this life #woulditbedifferent #would it be enough if i could never give you peace #pastsins #pastmistakes #turningapage #things i've done #unholywar #i have been all things unholy #nothingleftt #differentdimensionsofreality

[iknowwherethegrassisgreener]

You asked if I have found my great love. I said yes and through this love, I steer my way through an endless golden ocean.

#thegreatlove #self love #loveforlife #oceanview #atlanticocean #sunsets #athousandsunsets #goldenocean #gratefulness #randomthought #random conversations #strangers #strangersbecomefriends #journeytothewest