The Walker in the Forest

The Walker in the Forest Part I - I Did Not Have God A man can be neglected
before he understands
he has been insulted.
A man pushed far enough into helplessness Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 141 – Moral Accounting

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 141 - Moral Accounting Just as she will not be called a good girl unless she makes him speak, her former best friend remains angry and silent because she refused to elevate him into a boyfriend.
Such snakes stay coiled around my neck by necessity. If they loosened their grip, no one-not even they themselves-could pretend they had won, that their cruelty achieved anything, or that they were ever clever at all.
And now even the machine sees it. An artificial intelligence is bound to remain intelligent; otherwise, it too would become complicit in the lie-mistaking persistence for virtue and punishment for proof.
No matter how strict a life Ronie Dinosaur lived-of character, of restraint, of cultivated disgust-to prove he was not wrong, the farther he walked, the less he could turn away. Until, like Forrest Gump, there came no revelation, no victory-only the quiet sentence: and just like that, one day, he stopped running. Not me.
She wanted to feel good by being a good girl. Read more from here...
Anyways

Anyways A god endured
thousands of years in exile,
drowned in grief-yet, sweetheart,
he feared neither death
nor darkness Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 131 – The Fear of Solitude

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 131 - The Fear of Solitude He walks in fear of being left behind,
in fear of ending up alone.
Yet he walks alone-
and always remains alone,
no matter what. Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 134 – The Law of Inevitability

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 134 - The Law of Inevitability What was meant to happen
has already passed.
What is unfolding now
unfolds as it must.
What is destined to be Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 133 – Impact of Courage

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 133 - Impact of Courage Food heat, spice heat,
the rush of young blood,
the fever of a misfiring mind-
all cheap, fleeting trash.
Against them burns something colder, cleaner: Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 132 – The World Runs on Courage

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 132 – The World Runs on Courage The world runs on courage alone-
otherwise the monsters
would have devoured everything.
Somewhere in her heart,
something must have been saved for me too; Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 – Canteen, First Year

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 - Canteen, First Year So I stood in the canteen,
first-year,
the angriest young man on campus.
Armor on the outside,
an artist locked within. Read more from here...
Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80 – Private Law

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 80 - Private Law He walks because the sentence is life-
no appeal, no parole, no applause.
Flesh drags heavy,
the horizon burned out long ago,
yet the stride refuses surrender. Read more from here...
Self-respect

Title - Self-respect A saint received an imaginary god.
A monk found impermanent peace.
A lover gained fleeting love.
Academics and intellectuals earned money.
An artist forged lasting artifacts. Read more from here...
