Seemingly Unconnected

First published on 'The Nothing in Between', April 19 2020.

A significant effort is required to be yourself expressing and to not withdraw when the larger pool pushes back or away, or demands rigid conformity to its own code. A strange place.

Skimmer bugs pushing across the water surface on tension. They capitalise on cohesive forces.

I cannot be an extension of another’s mind process. To be written in to their reality is uncomfortable because I do not become the role they assign me just because they assign it.

One way communication is not a balanced system. One way is one way whether the direction be positive to negative, or negative to positive, the outlay for the journey is the same.

A policy of non-engagement has its benefits.

I go out to find interaction intermittently. Mostly the results provide me with a new packet of confusions.

Everyone is right and no-one agrees. How does that work?