Tag: self growth
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Brother
Brother I travelled the world with Brother I sat in the backseat of cars watching the window and playing games and fighting Playing in snow Playing make believe with the furniture Plays Lego Saturday morning with Indiana jones and building architecture and towers Brother fighting over things and who can do what Brother playing fashion…
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Good country
It’s a good country My family came here with secrets and bad dreams Ones I inherited from my parents Dreams of war and starving Of being unforgiven and left behind But the bad dreams of the past never seemed to come true It’s a good country Gives you solitude when you need it Days and…
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Intimacy
I used to think intimacy was telling people how broken I am Describing all my traumas like points on a resume Someone who accepts and loves you won’t do so for your trauma It will be half, for sure but the other half is how you deal with life How you deal when it’s bad…
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Unsolved
Courage is always new It is always the unsolved problem You can’t look at your role models and do the same Because that makes it a solved problem If anyone knew the answer they could give it to you You keep going into the place that has not been gone into before by anyone Who…
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Freedom
Freedom has more than one name It is a new country My whole body and who I thought I was The eyes with which I saw my face in the mirror The name I called myself That I was enslaved to Was not necessary at all And the emotions that reigned over my empty heart…
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The kite
I have known and have been peculiar women Women with peculiarly beautiful souls And a beautiful soul is a real tangible thing As real as the lakes are a resource of freshwater My soul too is shockingly beautiful And many men have tried to convince me otherwise Have tried to convince me that their soul…
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Escape tunnels
All I’ve ever wanted was for someone to explain to me why and what What in the world was happening to me, why I had these feelings. Why my dad stopped being a dad and became a burden, like a mental patient, with his childhood abuse and depression Why the adults abandoned supporting me when…
SUBLIME COURAGE 