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“I” and “Us”

We must put the “simple” back in “society.” ….. It’s a one-ring circus where only “I’s” are the conductors it will never suffice in a world of 7 billion of “us.” …. How did our fathers land us here? … More like, “How do we get ourselves out?” I want to know that if IContinue reading ““I” and “Us””

Okay

Do you want me to tell you that it all will be okay? Because it will, that’s what my friend used to say my thoughts were bigger than my head so they’d pop into my body instead find the open air and tell each molecule, “Move over!” for that blind perception only we knowContinue reading “Okay”

I Am

Sadness, pour yourself against my heart until the flood gates open– I am still me. Fear, hold yourself down on my family when the light seems empty– I will still be The girl with a dozen scars on one heart string alone, memories too full to count. I am the Buddha aboveContinue reading “I Am”

Cure

The outside collective soul of this world will forever cure our self-doubts, anxieties and fears. The spirit lives on in all united soil to stand strong-footed, sure of our smallness in humanity, in love.

Here

This year, I have a goal to use one of my poems to transition (at least for one night) into spoken word poetry. Here is one piece I am considering. It is one section of a much longer work on loss, uneasiness, and hope: Yet, the thing is. I’ve learned that we can learn all we want,Continue reading “Here”

Let me out of my four-legged pen and have my eyes come out to play––– I’m sick of all these “rules” and “expectations.” Fear? A chamber only dark horses go away to, don’t seem to like it yet they rest on anyway in their own gloom. Closed doors define so don’t let meContinue reading “Fear”

The Beauty Within

Take ownership of your mess, for your beauty can only be found within. Whether it be below your darkest depths, within your deepest fears––– no cande-lit room awaits you, and yet all I can do is cheer that I am here, and it is day, a new light borrowed from the same sun I ran fromContinue reading “The Beauty Within”