My Everything

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You are everything
you are all the things in someone I’ve been searching for
you make me proud
you’re my reason to get out of bed and my reason to
smile before I fall asleep
When you reach for the things you’ve always wanted
but never thought you could have,
you light a fire in my soul that no one has ever been able
to spark
you are my everything

Saschia Johnson

Ravine

The sadness
with its sharp oblong
teeth and low growl
riddled with past lives
I’ve stepped too right
(or too left)

It’s not the echoes that plague me
it’s the awkward digits that haunt me

It’s his bright blues that call me home
and if I don’t watch myself, I’ll
return to the arms that fed me
dark kisses every morning

Oh sadness my loyal friend
and lover

Saschia Johnson




Steadfast Peace

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I’m already in awe of your greatness
I’m not waiting for you to be something new and different

Let the night hum at the moon
let the birds sing toward the heavens

Nest,
build,
prepare for what need to,
but do it with the peace you give me
the steadfast peace the kind that says
I’m never gunna leave

Saschia Johnson

You Aren’t Replaceable

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Switched a fork with a blade
to slide down the crease of your lips
Switched your life for just a little more labor
don’t that paycheck smell sweet?
Switch the truth oh the bitter sideways truth
that turns ladies’ thighs ceramic and and and
100% princess crystal
shattered to pieces
shattered
to
pieces
on a sunny day glistening like
glitter on the man made sidewalk

Saschia Johnson

I am Brave. I am Free.

I will not be a slave to fear. I am brave.
I will not be a slave to oppression. I am free.

I will file the bars down with my callused hands, for freedom.
I will stand tall in a world that tells me to bow down, for bravery

This body has been raised up, to fight
this mind cracked wide open, to see
and this heart destroyed, to love as freely as a song bird sings

I have returned, not with vengeance but with strength
and determination. I may slow down, but I will not quit.
I may rest but I will always open my eyes with a renewed spirit
ready to run the race toward victory

This is what it means to to me to be alive.