Friday, September 21, 2018


I may be a lot of things
But I am worthy
I may be intense
But I am intentional
I am honest
I am loving
I may be everywhere and nowhere at once
But I am here for you
When I give of myself
I do not give half
I have no way to slice myself into more convenient pieces
When you get me
You get all of me
All of my love
All of my honest efforts
All of my time
You get me
I may be a lot of things
But I am worthy of the love I put out into the universe
I deserve the crashing of the waves
I deserve a beautiful sunset on a lake
I deserve to be truly seen
I may be a lot of things
But I am far from worthless

Wednesday, September 19, 2018


I am vapor.
I am here again, gone again, and here again
Before you can see me
Before you can realize I was ever here at all
I am mist.
Sometimes I lay there and am admired for bringing that little extra layer
And sometimes I am cursed because I make it hard to see through me
Or to see the way through
I am tears
Here again, gone again, and here again
Noticed but soon wiped away and forgotten
But I am light too
When I am on,
I am ON and bright and fill life with color
I am needed and necessary
I can wipe away the dark like a stain on the wall
But sometimes I don’t get rest
I’m left on and used. Like shoes. Like that scarf you use for a season and then discard for another 9 months
I flicker and fade and you replace the bulbs while not noticing broken filament
While neglecting what’s real. While forgetting I was ever here at all in an original form
I am a dream
Imagined in a way that fulfills the needs
Only to realize when you catch her, you have to work to keep her.


Tuesday, September 18, 2018


To feel your skin against my skin
The heat between us
Is all that I desire in this moment and so many in between
I dream of a day of profession
Where I would know for sure how you feel for me
Where I would be placed above all other women
Where I wouldn’t have to worry if it were all a dream
If it will fade like so much mist and sand graduals between my fingertips
You stroke my skin, in this hidden place where no one can see and I feel safety
I feel the loving touches of my soul mate much as he may not realize that he is
I feel a calming
Like the breeze on a cool summers day
Like the changing of leaves in autumn my heart fills with color and expression
Because in these hidden moments, I find myself in your arms
In the quiet where nothing and no one can find us
If no one can find us, no one move us

Wednesday, September 12, 2018


My journey after two months of a situation I will not describe here has left me wounded and raw.
It’s left me exposed. So in this exposure, I’m overly emotional and contemplative. I over analyze and surfacing was a self that I had long since banished and forgotten.
She is unsure of herself. She is constantly questioning every move and action. She constantly wonders if she is unworthy of love.
People tend not to understand this from her, as they’ve never been introduced. Since they don’t know this person, their reaction to her isn’t always supportive, though not usually detrimental in their view.
Every wrong lesson she had learned and overcome came back into question. Every insecurity now magnified ten times and staring her straight in the eyes.
For the first time in a while, she feels afraid and unsafe in her surroundings as if the ground could crumble beneath her.
She’s building new walls, brick by brick, while experiencing sorrow the entire time. A deep and aching sorrow and loss.
She stands up every day, goes to work and wears a smile as an armor to the rest of the world. She has learned that permanency is a myth and that everything on this Earth ends. She is having trouble realizing just how false this supposed lesson is. It is just her mind spinning like plates on wooden poles at a circus.
She works at this every day. She works to undo this message of defeat and some days she wins the small battles and some days she is left bloodied and bruised on the battlefield.
Because if she was worthy, wouldn’t she be loved?
She tries desperately to love herself only she finds herself a foreign concept now. She doesn’t recognize this new person or recognize her own power.
It doesn’t mean she stops trying. In fact she never stops. She continues to rise after every hit to her soul. She even still believes that her dreams are still possible but it doesn’t mean that every day isn’t a different sort of struggle between the heart and the mind.
This journey has changed her. For better or worse, she is forever changed.
 

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Raw


You scraped my skin raw

Everything is exposed

Every insecurity laying out plainly for the world to see and attack

Everything hurts, even the wind brushing my skin

I know now I will never have the closure that I, and so many others, seek in these situations

I have to find out how to be happy in my life knowing that I will never know the why

And I guess that has to be ok. It has to be enough.

I can see myself clearly in the mirror. Every scar. Every bruise. Wondering if I will ever be enough or ever not be too much for someone to love.

It feels like I’m propped up. That my body is too heavy for me to carry. That my burdens are too heavy. My soul is heavy. I wake up each day wondering what my next move will be. And every new move without you is like stepping on shards of glass. I bleed over a path between there and here. I know it needed to happen. I know the hurt teaches me the lessons. I know that the path traveled isn’t always easy. In fact it’s hard as stone walls on a forgotten fortress hidden behind blinding pain and darkness.

The tether has been cut loose.

I know I can make it through despite all of the odds stacked up against my door like a winter storm that piles the snow.

I know I will love again and maybe this time it will be exactly what I need. Or maybe I will just love myself. At least that way I know I won’t get hurt.

Love never truly ends. It’s just absorbed, and hopefully there is more love than regret.

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Oceans Rise


Sitting at night staring at the ceiling
Wondering my next steps
Wondering my next destination
I trusted and gave my heart away
It was returned tattered and torn
I stitch it together in tears that keep falling on the flesh
I can only hope that it beats stronger when it heals
I’m so tired. Exhaustion sets in. I stare around at blank walls and new empty spaces
That I find myself in
I take deep breaths in but the walls of my empty chest ache
I try to climb up out of the hole I’m in, my arms and legs are broken in places that
Can’t be seen.
Still I pull up. Still I can see above the ledge. Still I stagger away.
All the time moving. All the time lifting one foot and then the other.
All the time keeping my eyes locked forward, afraid to look back, afraid to be a pillar of salt
There on the floor.
Tears fall to oceans all while I’m building the raft from broken promises and dreams.
I lay up and look at the stars as I drift there out to sea.
The sun rises and sets. The sky streaks purple and gold. The breeze has the faint aroma of rain soon to come.
They said I could be anything. This means I can be without you. This means I can move on. This means someday the waters will subside and I will be able to walk away, and rise again.

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Left asunder
torn and tattered under the emotional wreckage
alone and barely breathing
bruised and exhausted


No reasons for the pain.
No reasons for the empty space which fills the space where life once existed


There is a hold in my chest
and I'm trying to pull the pieces together but they keep falling through my fingertips like liquid
like rain
like mist so far in the distance dissipating


I'm one with the quiet
but it's so loud it rings in my ear like the decibels left by an explosion
A pain I cannot describe tears at my skin, pulling me apart and leaving me in the blackness of night


The stars above leave no answers for me here
The world is periled in loss
As I watch them fade I am left wondering what is left of this person and how she is still standing
tears on her face as she has to admit that she feels what she will not name


The names do not change the events
the darkness cannot keep out the light
In all of this I am still here
I am here