Reflections: The voice within 29 Articles

by Robin Wilder

I believe my inner voice is schizophrenic. Sometimes she is my best friend and some times she can be cruel. She is selfish but doesn't think so. She is right until proven wrong. I've tried to fight her or quiet her down, i...read more

by Sonia Ordoyne

THE WORLD SPINS ON Why am I whispering? I covertly weave thoughts that only fill my heart more deeply with despair. I shall never find what I seek out of your arms. I shall prance merry circles with my Cheshire s...read more

by Samantha Pratt-Tyler

Breathless, unable to breathe, unable to speak, I try hard to tell a story that is now over 40 years old. But at the time it was over 30 years old. My insides are shaking, my mind is numb, this whole scene is like a ...read more

by Benjamin Miller

The Captain's Last Hour They're calling my name. over and over again I hear it, "Johnnnnn," or occasionally "sir, sir we need you". That sound is what feeds the tears that are now forming in the corners of my eyes, but ...read more

by Yolandi Booyens

You came into my life. You forced yourself into my world. Before you, I was beautiful, safe, mysterious and approachable. I was locked up in my own world of girlish secrets, pretensions and dreams. And it was you-there is ...read more

by Cefuentes

It never fails. Never. Everytime the horizon looks brighter, a dark cloud will hover to try and pour rain upon the setting. It is not fair. To suffer the consequences of an assumed guilt over and over again can be ment...read more

by Katie Balogun

Win Any Battle What lesson is there for today? A lesson that tells you that we can win the battle that life throws at us, no matter how heavy the pain, or light the stress, we can get through the rain and make tomorr...read more

by C M Hegberg

Creative people must first befriend their muse. Otherwise, they struggle much longer than needed on their work. Many artisans paint this muse separate from the writer. I swear this is true. For several months, I w...read more

by Jamie Lundsberg

Moonlight captured his face; golden fingers cupped, traced his jaw line, a perfectly framed silhouette. We passed a little house. Christmas lights still hung, sparkling in February night. "I want Christmas lights to always...read more

by Jennifer Wells

Whether it is referred to as a gut instinct, discernment, conscience, or even a direction from a higher place, I believe each person is fundamentally programmed to have an inner voice. It cannot be traced in dye tests, or ...read more

by Gloria Adjei

most of us have always been advised to follow our instincts, sometimes it turns out perfectly OK when we follow them but other times it just leads us into trouble. I once traveled to the united kingdom after i broke off...read more

by MK Bashlor

Something tells me all is okay. This something is my constant companion. So often, on days like these, I feel the world falling apart. I cannot say how, or why. And I cannot say that it's true, at all. It just feels this w...read more

by Gary Maclean

THE VOICE WITHIN He speaks to me often, or is it she. I think it alternates between genders; it's a he if it must be stern and a she if it wants to be soothing. At any rate that little voice speaks to me often, and I am...read more

by Sheeja Shaju

I can only describe it all till the time I enter into that other world. I rely on the prowess of speech and vocabulary of the onlookers to tell me what I did and how!. I am a simple girl with simple tastes in life. People ...read more

by Jolie Nagy

As of today you are no longer you. You longer exist. You longer counts. You longer have any feelings. You are a just a doormat that everyone walks on. You can longer be who you used to be. As of today you will be told what...read more

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by Angel1

I still remember that time in 2001 when I was in hospital. In the freak ward! That was the year when I met my friend Michael. He couldn't seem to keep away from me but he was not the only person. But the person who mos...read more

by Carrington M. Nye

The voice within is speaking to me right now, it is so hard to hear however, as there seems to be some kind of argument going on in there as well. I'm attempting to make out whom the fight is between; oh, it is my other t...read more

by AMERICAN MAN

~=BOY OF JOY=~ Ever since childhood I have had a perspective voice being that it is not of sound just knowing it can't be said to be just one as I now suspect there are as many voices as I have faces. If you saw my fac...read more

by Bren Williams

A cry to the Lord. Lord must life be so nasty, must life be so hard. Must troubles be so plentiful, must pain come by the yard. Must peace be so much missing, that we never know it's there. Must people be so hurtful, ...read more

by Thomas O'Donnell

Ah, the voice within! As if there was only one. But these other treacherous infidels grow mutinous with each thought. I know there... beneath them all, is a primary voice. Some higher life force, if you will. Some r...read more