Category: Poem
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My Biggest Way-Finding Try
Some days, I feel as if I am just too old to be this young still… A childless mother — Funny I never thought I would weep over those words, But I do now. Because I am a childless mother who knows all too well how time can be stopped, And cropped like a film…
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She Is Many, She Is One
I was cast aside, like garden waste, when I knew it was real. Into the mound of the forgotten, the used and useless. But, all these years were not wasted. I was learning how to fertilize, utilize disintegration, deterioration towards resurrection, towards new life. I was unworthy, once. But I heard her singing inside me…
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Against War
If I am ‘going’ anywhere, It is towards peace. Laying down between the armies within, Surrendering. There I will dream. And I will not be afraid to be in awe of everything. Its flowers as well as its teeth and jaws. I will not be afraid to love. Maybe then I will truly have done…
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All the Stars Need From Me
Can my heart stand being a counterpoint? To forever call and respond to phantoms and ghosts? The war is still raging against me. Are my words and my loneliness all you need? Is this the blade you found that draws the most blood? Draws the song of me… I wish you only desired my happiness.…