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Dwelling in the beauty of silence
Whisper to us again, O Mystery, in the hush between thoughts, when the world forgets how to listen. Remind us that we are worthy light,...

Barkus
Aug 11 min read
Life with relevance
I am blessed to walk beside my friend who has brain cancer through his end of life journey. He has been really philosophical about life...

Barkus
Jul 121 min read
The beautiful mess of becoming human
The beautiful mess of becoming human is not a flaw, but a sacred design where love tangles with chaos in the thrum of a single heartbeat....

Barkus
Jul 101 min read
Patria libre
A country run by banks will always be in debt, because profit demands hunger and scarcity dressed in the costume of progress. Its people...

Barkus
Jul 101 min read
Dedicated to Robin Williams
There is no reward for faking happiness, only a silent erosion beneath the mask, a slow bleeding of authenticity that leaves the soul...

Barkus
Jul 22 min read
My unrequited love to God
I love You with the ache of dry rivers longing for rain. I reach for You in silence, in shadow, in stillborn prayers that never stir the...

Barkus
Jun 301 min read
I don’t mind being used…lmao!
I don’t mind being used as long as I am enjoying it lmao, but let’s not pretend that pleasure erases the transaction. I have danced on...

Barkus
Jun 301 min read
This is not self-help. This is war.
…..An act of defiance, light and beauty carved by love into shame’s dark face….. It begins not with grandeur, but with a tremor. It...

Barkus
Jun 301 min read
Sadly limerance
Sadly, the closest thing to love some people will ever know is limerance. It mimics devotion with its trembling urgency, but beneath the...

Barkus
Jun 301 min read
Honesty of the human condition
….God, I love you, please love me. bare and unbeautied, heart laid in your hands….

Barkus
Jun 301 min read
Not a vice, but a joy…
You are not a vice, but a joy. You are unapologetic and radiant, carved from the marrow of morning and the ache of midnight. They told...

Barkus
Jun 301 min read
A peripheral figure of interest to no one, in our technophile, celebrity-obsessed, instant-information age.
A nonconformist walks the long way around the noise, boots thick with dust from paths no algorithm recommends. They do not chase...

Barkus
Jun 281 min read
Knocking on the door
I have chosen to begin knocking on the door instead of beating my head against it to a bloody pulp. I no longer mistake violence for...

Barkus
Jun 241 min read
The crucible of relationships
A relationship is a crucible in a furnace. It is not a gentle hearth, but a volatile chamber where the soul is melted down and reshaped...

Barkus
Jun 232 min read
Christianity divided unto itself
Christianity, especially in some of its more dogmatic expressions, often frames the world as a battleground between good and evil, light...

Barkus
Jun 222 min read
Good people
“And Jesus said unto him, “Why callest thou Me good? There is none good but One, that is, God.” Mark 10:18 No one has a victim complex...

Barkus
Jun 202 min read
Weaponized intimacy
Weaponized intimacy is the quietest form of war with no blood, no sirens, just the slow corrosion of trust dressed in affection. It...

Barkus
Jun 161 min read


Grrrl With a Bass
She doesn’t speak in notes so much as summon storms.
Each pluck of the string is a memory reclaimed,
a history rewritten in the low...

Barkus
Jun 141 min read


The radical act of feeling.
Experience has become a currency that’s regulated, extracted, branded. There are those who have cornered the market on what it means to...

Barkus
Jun 92 min read
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