Tag: abuse
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Questions and answers
Today is a morning like any other Saturday morning, but I find myself reflecting on the memories of my grandfather who passed away a decade ago. My grandfather was a learned man with progressive ideas, he went to university at a time where only one university existed in Korea. He also lived during the Korean…
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Both sides now
Everywhere I look now I see both sides, the strength and weakness, the duality of life Every victory has inside it a loss At the height of winter I let my old dreams die Dreams of peace and loneliness and stillness and patience I am not yet ready to tell my story I was but…
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Dream catcher
I came home and no one told me to leave but no one told me to stay either It wasn’t love exactly it was just kind of Mediocre The pain just passed through me now Like nightmares through a dream catcher I think about generations of women Walking free
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How to love
I wouldn’t trust a man that would die for me who wouldn’t die for himself. How would you know the value of a life? The idea of loving myself is so overwhelming because I’ve seen how much I can care What would happen if you lived as if you’d die for yourself It scares you…
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The idiot
Last year a guy I knew didn’t know how to spend time with me Yesterday a man didn’t know how to escape his bad habits Today someone else didn’t have the answer either. I’m tired of knowing I’m tired of teaching My dad was like an idiot, I volunteer with autistic kids and even he…
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A Good Man and a Good Woman
Heartbreak Like the depths of anxiety and depression Feels so exquisite Like 1600 volts through the heart The organ of remembering His best friend died Buried six feet in your brain That you didn’t know how to touch The space he left because he knew how to feel those things When I think of how…
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Colosseum
The space between what dreams men give us and what they actually do, when they run the other way scared with no explanation Is the measure of their power Or rather The ghost of power Like the height of the rows of the colosseum After centuries of plumagging The measurements only architects can estimate In…
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Begging for chains
Spinoza said the greatest problem of philosophy is why we beg for our chains I used to be desperate to love someone so that I could abandon myself The way my father taught me: Love means letting go, love means sacrifice, love means being selfless, it’s brave to discard yourself for something else, you’re strong…
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Break
There’s moments when you know you fell in love, then there are moments when you know you’ve fallen out of it. Do you ever argue with someone close to you and it’s at the point where you really question if you’re going to talk to this person again And you’ve already texted a paragraph and…
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Road trip
When I was in college my parents relationship was not well. We just had a death in the family, my grandfather who used to take care of all of us. Without him my parents marriage started to disassemble. It wasn’t fun being at home. I felt burdened and generally disillusioned about life. I went on…
SUBLIME COURAGE 