Scattered skin cells and hair follicles This body so temporary but these words could live on forever they may dissolve into nothing as my body does but they may lift a chin or a heart or a spirit and so I write them over and over again with hopes that something will come of themContinue reading “Float”
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The Good Fight
My heart beats stronger with threat It brings the life out of me The rage redirected to art To rebuilding myself I will not be a machine tears and snot drip down my face I will not stop I will only grow larger and larger And my dreams will be closer and closer With anContinue reading “The Good Fight”
Just Behind My Lips
I have come up with a plan! It sat with excitement just behind my lips I tried so hard to cage it in to keep my plans a secret “shhhh” I hushed Anyway, now the plan makes no sense I spoke it aloud to try and find the sense in it but the senseContinue reading “Just Behind My Lips”
Lady Lazarus
Lady Lazarus BY SYLVIA PLATH I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—— A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin O my enemy. Do I terrify?—— The nose, theContinue reading “Lady Lazarus”
Blueprints From Heaven
She gathered the love notes the sporadic ones the demanded ones she gathered her books her sorrows and her understandings and she left She began to build her ark the blueprint laid out from above she stacked her self-love and internal conversations she’s had with heavenly hosts layer by layer This will help her bareContinue reading “Blueprints From Heaven”
My Values
I understand And if I don’t because I’ve never been there I hear you I hear your pain And your reasons I will take time to think what it must be like I will because I have to I have to because that feeling of not being understood That feeling of being the one noContinue reading “My Values”
Distant
It’s becoming a distant place A fire burns alone Warming only the rug The rug stained from dinner And Netflix The door so familiar, cracked a pinch And the walls are stuffed full With scents of home cooked meals And baked cookies Not at the tips of my fingers But it’s there I know itContinue reading “Distant”
Where Are You Going?
I am tough enough I am strong enough and smart enough this is a race worth running I don’t know where I’m going but I’m I’ll end up somewhere before I figure it out and when I figure out where I’m going then I’ll go It can’t be that hard ❤ Saschia
From inside my belly I feel it The agitation The excitement The hope for change and the courage to embrace it My fingers wiggle to the music a pain stabs my side Thoughts scatter left and right then sink into my belly This body so fragile This mind so wild I’m almost there I canContinue reading
Please Let Me Sleep
The house is quiet and cold I’m too tired to push the keys Too awake to sleep Hoping for some relief. Maybe sleepy sleep Or to be awake enough to push the right keys Sasch
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