The Arcane Diary

Tag: Free Verse

  • Acknowledging and de-stigmatizing Suicidal Ideation

    We need to face our darkness because we cannot outrun our shadow.

    Recall and recount the moments that almost were and we were almost not.

    A reminder of all the worst points in our life that we have overcome
    to remind us that we will overcome this one as well.

    Wear your survived pain as a badge of strength, almost deaths as a reaffirmation
    that you are alive – and very much in control.

    There is a beauty in darkness, as every golden light must have shade.
    It’s not a contradiction but a confirmation –
    a balance that allows both to continue to exist.
    We must love both to find harmony in contradiction.

  • an IT conspiracy

    think about it

    they’re everywhere

    in every company

    they manage the pipelines

    design, maintain

    the routes of the most sensitive data

    now, of course, there’s cryptography

    that’s great at keeping individual bits locked

    but zoom out further

    every IT professional

    either work for a company with robust protocols to keep their data safe

    or work for a company that works for another, with non-disclosure agreements up the wazoo

    So that’s fine; all the data stays tucked away, high in the cloud

    But what’s between the lines?

    What can be inferred by what is not said?

    Which companies have agreements with whom?

    And the boots on the ground, they know where at least some of the bodies are buried

    They know what they’re asked to do and not do

    But they have an idea of what is what and what goes where

    So, in the lines between what is not said, as much from what is

    Could be pieced together the most valuable

    Dangerous and incendiary secrets