This is the personal writing site of Barry Hurd- online consultant, designer, writer, marketer, entrepreneur, and father.
Warm, whimsical words of caring
often without my conscious decision.
Written in my dreams as if I had awoke,
yet always obscured by the fog of emotional rhetoric.
So I write the harsh letters onto paper,
forming words of both compassion and ignorance.
I find myself wondering if my soul was once dropped,
and the thousands of voices glimmered like mirrors. […]
To the people who try, the people who forgive. To the people who find themselves standing alone when they’ve done things right, but everyone thinks it is wrong. To the people who try, when trying means sacrificing the last breath you have.
Do not give up, do not lose hope. Do not give in, and do […]
Sometimes I have the urge to put myself in other people’s shoes… to think of how I would feel when the world was knocking on my door.
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I witnessed it all
You didn’t realize,
that day I was watching,
wondering if you knew my name.
You didn’t notice,
when I said my hello,
for the first time I spoke.
You didn’t […]