Michon Leigh
MN / WI
QuarterLifeCrisis
Everything on this page is my own work whether it be writing, artwork, or photography(unless stated otherwise).
Cut to the crap:
Poetry
Writing
Random Journal clips
Not all of my writing shows up under the links even though they're tagged correctly... I'm not really friends with technology, so you may be better off just browsing! (:
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
finding hope in close strangers
I was given a tad bit of hope tonight, but
I don’t want to know if it’s honest - or if it’s nothing
(&if it’s nothing, I’m completely okay with that) - I just want it
to remain a mystery, because all I want is the hope
to get through, not the fear
of getting attached, again,
too soon.
(Source: bearsdontdance)
05.07.2012
01:34pm: That moment you think to yourself, I’m ready to get back up now. Then you realize everyone around you has lost faith in you by now. [All of your ultimatums set me up for failure.]
I don’t think I can say that ‘I love you’ if I keep you here tonight.
[When it comes to what’s good for you,] I’m either the best there is or the worst there is… And baby, for your sake, I pray that I’m the worst [that you yet have someone amazing to find with everything to offer] - but for mine? I hope I’m the best [so that I may continue to selfishly call you mine].
Goodbye, my dear. Goodbye.
(Source: bearsdontdance)
![[photo source]
Not even halfway up the tree, &there are only two more steps after the tree splits, but nothing to hold onto after that. You look back down at the ground, then return to craning your neck upward - still a long way to go. Do you keep climbing, scraping up your hands and using all the strength you’ve got to climb an almost vertical branch stretching toward the sunlight, or go back down to the ground where your cuts can breathe and your heart can rest? You’ve grown weary, the whole forest knows it.
As you sigh, the trees creak with the wind, as if your exhaustion is suffocating everything. How much depends on this? You look down again; the ground caught the leaves, I’m sure it will catch you, too. Had the tree used up the leaves and tossed them aside? Had it watched while they wilt, unable to help? Or had it refused to help? Or had the leaves pushed themselves away from the tree? Had they wanted to escape? Or had they spared the tree, and sacrificed themselves?
In any case, it seems love itself may not be enough. Timelines always have a beginning and an end, so does forever exist? Then again, who is to say? &If always is a frequency, if forever exists, would it be no more than mere length? Indecisive and losing focus - look back up. It’s been said that the best apples are at the top… The next move is your call, but don’t lose belief in that.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m143j3HH5k1rpdb4yo1_500.jpg)
Not even halfway up the tree, &there are only two more steps after the tree splits, but nothing to hold onto after that. You look back down at the ground, then return to craning your neck upward - still a long way to go. Do you keep climbing, scraping up your hands and using all the strength you’ve got to climb an almost vertical branch stretching toward the sunlight, or go back down to the ground where your cuts can breathe and your heart can rest? You’ve grown weary, the whole forest knows it.
As you sigh, the trees creak with the wind, as if your exhaustion is suffocating everything. How much depends on this? You look down again; the ground caught the leaves, I’m sure it will catch you, too. Had the tree used up the leaves and tossed them aside? Had it watched while they wilt, unable to help? Or had it refused to help? Or had the leaves pushed themselves away from the tree? Had they wanted to escape? Or had they spared the tree, and sacrificed themselves?
In any case, it seems love itself may not be enough. Timelines always have a beginning and an end, so does forever exist? Then again, who is to say? &If always is a frequency, if forever exists, would it be no more than mere length? Indecisive and losing focus - look back up. It’s been said that the best apples are at the top… The next move is your call, but don’t lose belief in that.
(Source: bearsdontdance)
Timelines always have a beginning and an end, so does forever exist?
The first time I kissed you has crossed my mind more than once lately,
along with how things change. Dear girl, I hope you never forget
the place we made; here, there, not the towns, but what was ours to create –
I didn’t have much to give but we both know I would have given everything.
But after everything, yet nowhere near it at all, you thought
time apart would do us good; but the distance only grew
&my heart got in the way.
(Source: bearsdontdance)
Update.
(not that anyone cares)
I haven’t been writing much lately, sadly. I’ve just been sticking to making noise on my good old six string. Anywho… I’m hoping my writing will be more frequent once this last month of school is over… However, I am really bad at writing about happy things, which is really sad, so I hope to work on that this summer since things have been looking up. I’ll post a couple things I wrote last month, but I’m hoping to get some new thoughts down and out that are more positive!
Also, thank you (and, perhaps, sorry) to each and every one of you who actually reads my crap(:
The process of the actual tattoo…
The tattoo artist made it more fitting to be a tattoo, and Leah made a good choice in keeping the quote out of the tattoo since it definitely would have taken up too much focus.
Her explanation:
“got the tattoo ive been so excited for today :) michon drew it up for me and travis at atonomy tattoo altered it to perfection on my leg!
- the totum pole is the exact one in bethany beach deleware. ive been there every year since i can remember. basically the only constant place in my life. its the sign that we’re there, at my happy place.
- my parents initials are on the lifesaver, along with the two waves for them.
- there are five flowers, for them, my brother and sister and me.
- its absolutely perfect and i love the shit out of it xo”
She was a real champ the whole way through the tattoo(:
(Source: bearsdontdance)
^The process of drawing up Leah’s tat…
The scan took some of the light coloring off, so I put both that and a phone pic of the final on here.
(Source: bearsdontdance)
My crappy phone picture does not do these pieces justice.
I walked through this wonderful showing called “Ordinary Things - Ceramics for Everyday Use” by Robert Banker. The pieces were absolutely beautiful and it made me miss creating physical art, not just words and music. I’m currently working on drawing up a tattoo for my brother and one for my friend, but I really do need to make more time for creating. Instruments and writing just haven’t been as fulfilling to my creative side lately.
02.27.2012
03:46pm: I told her not to worry, that some things just take time. But is it things that take time, or is it time that takes things?
(Source: bearsdontdance)
