Do I choose love, or do I choose life, down in here in this pit of society where I can chose 1, be a woman or 2, be someone, something else I don’t know what that something is, exactly, but I do know it is something of a warrior, everything of a human being when loveContinue reading “Love or Life?”
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Carry On
Tell me what type of wind would have made you stay, tempted your shallow roots to grow and adventures to remain silent in the mind, considering the heart instead– talk about vulnerability when all you see is mastery even a mindful soul can grow lonely what bit of sun-dipped skin did you need to see, prepared toContinue reading “Carry On”
A Poem
Sometimes, it’s not enough to write a poem. ………………………………………. “Feel it on your back,” she told me from the church cellar. “Know it by name,” he whispered through the garden; he chased the snake but only I could tell. “Let it loose,” she sang, leading the students to the edge, bird cage inContinue reading “A Poem”
Fruit
Cut open a pomegranate. You see the red, fleshy, skin-tight surface? It’s like a community, appearance to the masses– even to the outsider within. Now, cut inside the dark, pink center– see the juice run out? It is the outcome of communication, tied over from months of ripening, passing time ripped open with theContinue reading “Fruit”