Managing My Leftovers
Adjusting To My New Normal I step back in sudden awareness as my mind alerts me to the heat spreading across my protruding belly. I’m …
Marriage
Touching You
Touching YouA Love Poem Those blades across your back flexing as you fit inside me. The curve of your hip bones pressing. Stay here a …
Contraception, A Poem
Contraception Shall I kiss you today And taste our sorrow? The regret of us Together, at last In fear of our passion Conceiving new chaos …
In Gratitude Of You, A Poem
In Gratitude Of You Thank you for your eyes Piercing through my soul Reminding me that life is Eternal, beyond this moment You are my …
Fear, A Poem
Fear Your breathing hardens As my heart begins to race Soft slumber disturbed by A fear of death’s embrace
Squashed, A Poem
Squashed Silently Hope tore My limbs in two Broken pieces of bone Squashed between my fingertips Gritty and forgotten This small echo Of our love …
Mosaic, A Poem
Mosaic The journey back Is full of stains Painful missteps Broken pieces of history Shards spread Across my memory I must be delicate If I …
Thirst, A Poem
Thirst My lips crack With unbearable heat Jolted awake, again Moaning for it, water Left behind in a dream Yearning to quench this thirst But …
Dove, A Poem
Dove For you I’d burn it all away Cross the water to where they stay Face the demons one by one Kill my fears, until …
Dealing With My Partner’s Chronic Illness
We look at our bodies, our careers, our struggles, and falsely believe that this the total of who we are.
Let me tell you that who you are in this moment is not a full reflection of who you are as a soul.