Tag: self love
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City of love
I think relationships are designed to end. I mean I don’t look forward to only the ending but it shouldn’t be so scary when it comes at the right time. Like the seasons or death I think it’s very natural and beautiful Anyway I’ve been having too many thoughts that don’t lead anywhere like walking…
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Perennial
I’m waiting for these orchids to bloom. At first I was skeptical because I don’t have good experience with keeping plants alive. I got into plants only a year ago, when I first bought this one. I bought them when we were talking and we first met. You were helping me with things. I stayed…
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Asking the postman
I had a friend I knew since I was in middle school and over time we realized there was a bond that stood still among the ups and downs of life and more importantly through the changes and transformations in ourselves. In our late twenties we converged and being married was on our minds. When…
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Take your cage, take your keys
I’ve decided that love from now on should taste like freedom I won’t be keeping any more promises so you can’t blame me for breaking them When I think of how you cornered me into surrendering my right for your wrong Your revenge gone off-center feeding an ego binge I almost admire your expert crafting…
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Lighting strikes twice
I don’t know how to describe this except to describe it I thought I loved someone that I knew for over a decade, but we ended and I thought I wouldn’t recover And then there he was, also waiting, for just as long. In my life the only loyalty I knew was how misadventure followed…
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Waiting
I will bring you the strength I found in these few days I was thinking about everything that was taken from me, all the mending and fixing I worked for in the last decade to bring some tenderness to myself That he selfishly robbed clean I thought about the gorey emptiness of that lost time…
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They called me names
They called me a heartbreaker Yet I’m but a truth-teller It doesn’t just roll off my tongue It is born in labor and earthquakes and devastation How much they hated me and I admit I enjoyed it I was a tower struck by lightning No, I was a lightning rod in a storm It shook…
SUBLIME COURAGE 