There's a faded line Between reality and time I Catch myself remembering rejection Straddling a log fence watching Them play and laugh and shout Odd girl out Too loud I used to be an expert at stilts Stride the mud like a queen I could do anything If I just believed but I never prayed hard enough to Make God real and It would be a version of Drop Dead Fred who Emerged the memories in my head Read more...
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Stream of Consiousness III
It is midnight and the rain is falling. There are never torrents here in this land of evergreen forest. She pours softly from the eave gliding down the tree leaves outside my window. I have knocking pain strobes in my eye sockets, headache gone raw. Sleep is a tender trinket dangling and taunting my view. Counting woolen … Continue reading Stream of Consiousness III
Blood Shame
What does my face Look like when I cry? Un-pretty, swollen Blood red eyes. I am five again, And he is bigger Than a mountain. I am vulnerably In blood shame. I am a little girl Naive and helpless, But I am not her Not anymore, So how do I Let her go? She is … Continue reading Blood Shame