M.K. Lee's Blog: Telling Tales, page 62
August 29, 2020
In The Car
They have Josh’s younger brother staying with them for a long weekend, and in a surprising display of modesty, Grant had arrived home Friday night to a murmur from Josh about adjoining bedroom walls, barely able to contain a burst of laughter for Josh acting so out of character demure and only greeting him with a brief kiss on the cheek. But Josh’s comments about needing to keep their hands to themselves in Toby’s company, is apparently easier said than done for Josh. Because every spare sec...
Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married
Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married
Raife and Dexter are one of those couples who make lonely people reach for a bucket of ice cream and watch Bridget Jones for the hundredth time. They also just happen to be getting married, in the most perfect of venues, surrounded by their closest family and friends. Life couldn’t be better for them. They have good careers, a beautiful house, and still make heart eyes at each other because they are so ridiculously, sappily in love. Doesn’t it make you...
August 27, 2020
Stars
They say that the stars twinkling in the inky canopy overhead are dead to us. So hot that they shimmer. So out of reach that we can hold out our hands to them, finding nothing but air ticking our palms when we pull them back. They say, stars are much like aspirations. Bright, shiny dreams that will forever be unattainable, and long gone before we can capture them. Well what do they know? We are stars. We are our dreams. We are our own aspirations. We are inspiration, and we will light the wa...
Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married
Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married
Raife and Dexter are one of those couples who make lonely people reach for a bucket of ice cream and watch Bridget Jones for the hundredth time. They also just happen to be getting married, in the most perfect of venues, surrounded by their closest family and friends. Life couldn’t be better for them. They have good careers, a beautiful house, and still make heart eyes at each other because they are so ridiculously, sappily in love. Doesn’t it make you...
Colourful
A kaleidoscope of colour glistens at my feet,
Reflections of an endless canopy overhead.
Lamplight and wind makes a dance of these colours
And for no place to pause,
I keep walking instead.
I came to this place under cloud and misery,
Fearful to look,
Be seen,
Be known.
The rain,
It washed away any hesitance
Revealing technicolour that
Is all around me and,
If I want it,
Mine to own.
By the end of this path
I will absorb all the colours beneath,
Let colours seep into me from the sky above,
...
August 26, 2020
True North
Releasing yourself from the things that have burdened
You, brings on a feeling like becoming lost
In some countryside landscape surrounded by beauty –
Breath taken, but confused (and standing on moss).
The sun overhead highlights all your horizons,
Streams wash away thoughts that you no longer need,
The terrain forces new air into your lungs, and reminds
You, sometimes, the simple things must be believed.
Like: some people are bastards, and don’t deserve chances.
Others are always goin...
Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married
Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married
Raife and Dexter are one of those couples who make lonely people reach for a bucket of ice cream and watch Bridget Jones for the hundredth time. They also just happen to be getting married, in the most perfect of venues, surrounded by their closest family and friends. Life couldn’t be better for them. They have good careers, a beautiful house, and still make heart eyes at each other because they are so ridiculously, sappily in love. Doesn’t it make...
August 25, 2020
Slumber
The door was left open only a crack.
Barely wide enough to notice, but just enough to let a finger width in.
On softened hinges the door creaked open, closed with a soft click, blocking out the sudden strip of light as it returned to its frame.
The sleeping figure in the bed remained unaware, prone. Unable to feel the intense gaze on its face.
Pad. Pad. Pad. Bare footfalls on piled carpet creeped up to the side of the bed.
A clammy hand reached out to tug on a sleeping forearm...
Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married
Raife and Dexter Are Getting Married
Raife and Dexter are one of those couples who make lonely people reach for a bucket of ice cream and watch Bridget Jones for the hundredth time. They also just happen to be getting married, in the most perfect of venues, surrounded by their closest family and friends. Life couldn’t be better for them. They have good careers, a beautiful house, and still make heart eyes at each other because they are so ridiculously, sappily in love. Doesn’t it make you...
