Poetry Series – Missplace

We’re always circling back to lessons, relearning from previous experiences. I wonder if sometimes that’s why I feel so out of place in the present day. Maybe I’m revisiting, relearning. It’s the only thing I can think to tell myself, sometimes, to keep from feeling like I’m going crazy. Missplace Where am ISometimes I forgetI’veContinue reading “Poetry Series – Missplace”

Rewrite.

Our lives can be broken down into the experiences we have and how they are shaped by our perspectives. What happens is if an experience is particularly traumatic for us, its explosive nature often leads us to reshape our perspective to account for the possibility of that narrowly escaped catastrophe happening again. For anyone that,Continue reading “Rewrite.”

Poetry Series – I Mean It

I spent a long time saying I didn’t want love when I did. The truth was, I didn’t think I deserved it. I never believed it when someone said they loved me and immediately I’d start kicking into self-sabotage mode. I didn’t know I was going to break this habit when I did. Sure, IContinue reading “Poetry Series – I Mean It”

Poetry Series – Tired of Your Face

If you have a big heart, maybe you know the pain of desperately wanting to help someone that isn’t ready or willing to receive your help. I’ve often been much more willing to take suffering on myself than to watch another person go through it. Sometimes, though, we have to sit back and let theContinue reading “Poetry Series – Tired of Your Face”

Poetry Series – Mental Prison

I think it’s important that we go out of our way to make friends that come from places we don’t understand, it’s how we grow. I’ve made it an effort to befriend people that get a fearful reaction from me. No, I’m not saying to go against your gut instinct but once you get toContinue reading “Poetry Series – Mental Prison”

Poetry Series – Lips

Life seems to be a constant search for finding the balance between light and dark. When the light is particularly bright, sometimes this takes a bit more of an adjustment period than I’m anticipating. I shouldn’t be surprised, I’ve always been one to squint at a change of lighting no matter how subtle. Every timeContinue reading “Poetry Series – Lips”

Poetry Series – Inconsistent

I don’t believe that everyone is entitled to the information and details of our lives. In fact, I don’t think anyone is entitled to it but that it is our job to voice, honestly, when a question crosses our boundaries rather than lying our way through it. I spent two hours in the dining roomContinue reading “Poetry Series – Inconsistent”

Poetry Series – Imagination

I’ve never quite understood boredom. I long for the moments where the world quiets down enough, slows, so I can escape reality and wander through my imagination. It wasn’t until reaching adulthood that I realized not everyone’s imagination survived childhood. I believe the desperate need to preserve mine is why I defaulted to silence soContinue reading “Poetry Series – Imagination”

Poetry Series – Dreaming

I think one of the most powerful things we can do is let a person know how loved they are. Sometimes love scares you shitless and this takes a lot of courage, though. I’m looking for the courage to take all of these little memories I’ve written and placed in the sight of mostly strangers,Continue reading “Poetry Series – Dreaming”

Poetry Series – Exposure

There were more years than I’d like to admit in which I’d push for vulnerability and openness out of everyone I met, all the while keeping myself safe and closed off. Sometimes it was rooted in thinking that space should only be for others and I need to stop taking it up. Other times IContinue reading “Poetry Series – Exposure”