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”
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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
Is It?
What did you sign up for? Did you get it? Did you get the thing you signed up for? Does anyone get the thing they sign up for? We see We watch on in excitement waiting for our turn waiting to have a place a wife a husband waiting for the acceptance letter theContinue reading “Is It?”
Maybe?
We pay so much Not just with the paper dollar We pay with our time And our awareness We pay with our dreams our love our bodies There’s got to come a time When we start saying no We’re not paying anymore ♡Saschia
