Poem: For My Mom
CW for suicidal imagery. -------------------------------------------------- I know people crying, weeping. I know people, dying, same. I know people with my faces. I know people with my names. Should I weep for silence loudly, Should I cry...
Poem: Just Now
This moment is precious. This moment is peace. This moment is hope, and kindness, and light. This moment is sadness. This moment is despair and darkness, yet life. This moment is kindness. This moment is the march of love amongst the...
Poem: The Floor
Written on and trod on and walked on and stepped, Crying for all the wrong reasons. Collapsing and crushing and weeping and wept, Stepped on for all the wrong reasons. Because we can't stand up for ourselves. Because we can't defend... We're...
Poem: The Sea
The body remembers; the soul forgets; she cannot withstand the pain. She cannot protect; can't even remember; her very own special name. She dares not look up; She dares not look down, in fear of what eyes will see. She cannot look...
Poem: For My Dad
How do I even explain the horror? How do I explain the fear? How do I laugh in despair and communicate how I really feel? From bouts so dark I knew not depths to poor, abandoned child, you did much damage to yourself your anger became...
Poem: Compliments
Compliments are bouncing off, Compliments, unheard, Compliments that shake our mind and threaten our whole world. Because we cannot see ourselves, Because we cannot laugh, We never hear our compliments; We discard them like chaff. But one...
Poem: Slippery Crying
Wires and tightropes and catches oh my, my heart can't withstand the pain; Wires and tightropes and things I despise, my mind can't withstand the rain. Of intrusive thoughts, of intrusive acts my mind will always toward-slip. And yet, even...
Poem: For Dakota
I love it when your smiles are real. I love it when they're true. I love it when they radiate, like light shines down on you. I loved them then; I love them now; I love them all the same, as long as they are genuine and not damaged and...
Life, Love, and Happiness
"Love." "Love? What's that?" "You've got to be joking." I said, as I side-eyed the walking lizard, eyebrow quirking ever-higher as this conversation progressed. "Love is why we even bother to exist." I said. "It's why we fight, and win, even...
Bloodstains
The rage within that I now feel compels me now to write, to share a vision, bloody red, of your last desperate night. The rage within that rises strong that rips throughout my heart, it sings the song of pain and weight and rips my mind apart....
Breaking Through
And on this day, she 'gan to move. And on this day, earth trembled. For on this day, both earth and sky, And stars, themselves, remembered. For music spoke, And music sang, And music doth remembered, That secret song, That secret heart, That...
Shimmerspark
We enter times of darkness now, the wounded and the shaken, the times that would us now destroy, if we should not awaken. But still I hear dear freedom's call. I hear its march and chime and if you now just listen close you'll see it still yet...