a poem for today:
side-stepping the spinout phase
JOIE DE VIVRE | by Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | November 7, 2025

la nuit
La nuit
ne fait
que
brille
le soleil.
Context:
As an empath (I’ve not said this of myself before, I think— more on this in my new book)
anyways: I’m energetically aware of when people are, or are about to spin out.
It’s a funny kind of thing, having a barometer like this
a little temperature gauge
I ignore it sometimes
Sometimes I just move out of the way
But I care mostly
Sometimes it’s like this:
Today, three people were crying out madly in the street:
A young white man with an improbably shiny broach of a tiger on his chest
Carrying 4 bags of stuff
Too heavy for him.
An old woman sat in front of a church
She smelled of urine in her wheel chair
Asking for Sean
A person came out, ignoring her
She kept asking for Sean
I asked— do you need help?
She ignored me (I wasn’t Sean)
Another man
Down the block
But shouting ever-louder
Unintelligible.
We hurried along our way.
To this chaos,
I say:
Peace.
Peace.
Peace.
And then I realized:
These people are outliers
The rest of us are not like this
The sun is shining
and all is well in the world
because the peace in inside
despite the choices of a few.
All the night
can do
is make
the sun shine.
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Timothy 1
Praise God. Amen.
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