This is the personal writing site of Barry Hurd- online consultant, designer, writer, marketer, entrepreneur, and father.
I met you briefly, our paths crossed like we had been life-long lovers.
For a moment we both knew it was not a casual interlude.
We were not the kind of people to be in love, or at least admit it.
Yet I found myself musing over how easily I fell.
I could not deny my heart was a […]
If I came across your profile,
would I wonder about you,
whether you enjoy the background,
the music that no one else hears,
or if you stand on the stage of life
and scream into the crowd.
If I came across your profile,
could I dare to think it defines you,
the way you eat breakfast in the morning
or laugh at whimsical musings […]
Some people say,
that I have a remarkable soul.
Where it lays between black and white,
lost in a place that defines everything else.
I think, if not the words that have left my lips,
should my thoughts escape without a subtle echo
a peaceful remembrance to something so wonderful,
that they may etch themselves to paper.
Yet I am not here, no, […]
Have the tides changed so rapidly,
pushing against the shores beneath calm waters
as the ebe of life draws to and fro
that one cannot dream without risk of drowning
fighting against every motion, every inaction
wondering if passion will lead to surrender
or if the serenity merely represents acceptance.
I do not care to know,
to fight against a nature so fluid.
It […]
She was beautiful, the kind of definition artists try to capture
in song, the flavor or rose water as it touches your lips.
She was the kind of presence that people remarked about.
The lady in black, that gave reason for a poem,
a brief insight to the human condition, known only as beautiful.
I gave my son a hug last night, which in our own way
Describes a feeling of love between us.
When I say “I love you” to him, there is no faith lost in those words.
I say them with an honest heart, and a belief in everything we are.
When he says “I love you” to me, he […]