Tag: feminism
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Dancing in the dark
I met a friend who turned into something more Barely a friend, we talked a few times, danced a few times, Every time I said the right thing And every time, he said the right thing I’m not sure it’s love But it lives in the spaces inside me that are in heartbreak, A love…
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River of time
My memories of him and my opinions of who he was and what he was to me changes as I grow And the colors of life bleed through me and change hues with the seasons I miss him but I also miss last summer, last autumn, last winter, and last spring So sorrily I realize…
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Bendable me
Now I get less startled thinking about my brother being gone Now I can connect the past and present knowing what he has been like then, how hard it was to convince him that life was in fact, beautiful He was fading out slowly like the colors in a pair of jeans I still have…
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The magic in the danger
I was thinking about how my mom doesn’t understand parts of me, and how it hurts that some of the best things about me she will never understand. But at the same time we do share great memories. There are some things she gives me and not others. Sometimes it hurt to think I was…
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A long road to nowhere
Today I realized I was fighting for something I didn’t even want, suffering the defeat of losing something I didn’t really want. I suffered while I couldn’t decide, while I should have been deciding I was fighting It’s over now and it hurts It hurts because I let him in to my secrets and tricks…
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Who?
They asked me ‘who?’ And I said, everybody. The rich and the poor The beautiful and the ugly The strong and the weak The sophisticated and the simple
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Somehow
I’ve become braver than before Somehow, braver … Me he vuelto más valiente que antes de alguna manera más valiente
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Todo lo que sabes
Me dijiste tu nombre Me dijiste cómo te rompieron, cómo te hicieron mal tú me dijiste que conocías el amor y que me mostrarías cómo sanar Dijiste que resucitarías a los muertos en tres días Así que esperé Noventa y nueve días y noventa y nueve noches Me dijiste que era tu solPero desaparezco en…
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All that you know
You told me your name You told me how they broke you, how they did you wrong You told me you knew love and that you would show me how to heal You said you would raise the dead in three days So I waited Ninety-nine days and ninety-nine nights You told me I was…
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Love always feels like acceptance
Everyone has two eyes, a nose, a mouth, a neck, two hands. There’s something similar and universal about being human. And when you love yourself, everyone loves themselves the same, with the same quality of love and the experience is the same, I believe. The circumstances may be infinitely different, but the experience of loving…
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