Ishtar's Shithouse Poetry

Scraps and bone lay waste, forgotten in haste. Gesture, cast on shadows, with grace. A gift of love, to take my place.

Don't mourn the loss of my life I always had to leave Celebrate the life I loved living And for sharing it with me

We measure success with money But it's not funny That we encourage and train Behaviours that will remain Within the collective Encouraged Narcissism is cultured A codependency resulting We create the problem That causes destruction Our measure of success Itself, a corruption

I am a mirror image Key to a forsaken lock We are not the same But we fit for a purpose I intend to unlock Pandora's box But where it is? I am lost.

Hell is on Earth. Heaven, is the ethereal feeling within.

Winter dusts the land Nature demands our patience The reward - new growth. 

If you want to understand my mind, you had better learn braille.

The stadium was packed The police imposed a hack Self-inflicted catastrophe Created a stampede Using tear gas, you see Forced the crowd to panic Everyone went manic It's safe to say, with no way to escape It was a stupid and deadly Catastrophic mistake

"Out of sight, out of mind"  If only, we could reverse time and ask of this proverbial testimony; was the author aphantic, or just musing memory?

I have aphantasia and anauralia - scientific definitions for a blind and silent mind.  It is a  Clairvoyant world,  when only 2-5% have aphantasia - in that, most can 'count sheep' in their minds eye, to various degrees. I am unable to see images in my mind - I can't 'count sheep' like others  -  my minds eye is blind. I am just counting, knowing the numbers represent sheep. I lack what may once have been called  clairvoyance , which can be defined as; ' clear seeing '  or ' minds clarity of vision '. Etymology of Clairvoyance : Clarity  - the ability to think clearly /  brightness  of mind (Latin) C lair  - clear (French), Voir - to see (French) Clairvoyant  - clear sighted perspective (French) First used in 1600, according to the Oxford English Dictionary .  Prior to this, t he Greeks spoke of oracles , particularly at Delphi , where priestesses could receive divine messages through visions, voices, or bodily sen...