Tag: abuse
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Into the wild
You’re a god And I’m a non-believer It doesn’t matter anymore does it Desire and you Me and waiting He said he blacked out He sank his teeth into my soft side As if it was the last supper The last time my text would light up his screen The last hope he’d have before…
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It was
It was the best of times It was the worst of times These were the days of despair Yet the season of hope Unspoken love and broken promises I made a cup of coffee this morning So I could sit alone at the window And consider The philosophy of peace Of insideness of emotion Like…
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Depth
I went to the new condo build today I walked around the empty pristine rooms I couldn’t stop the shadows of a family that never was from moving in Girls running around A partner sleeping here In sadness I closed the door and carried out different plans I walked by a playground outside I came…
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Last chapter
Why do I feel shame for longing and wanting Oh right It’s not you You throw shadows at me Yet I am silent And cloaked I am not your woman And you are not mine Your words are not my words My tears are not your tears Let me try again I am a phantom…
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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…
SUBLIME COURAGE 