Chasing Acceptance
There was a point along the road when she realized the truth: being different was going to have to do. Chasing acceptance was a dead end, at best a cul-de-sac Continue Reading →
Tag Archives: self-esteem
Seeing Nothing
You looked at me to see someone else, someone from your past, someone I couldn’t be. You looked through me to find someone else, someone who was less of this, Continue Reading →
Holding Tight to Toxicity
What is this thing you do? You don’t wish to die alone and so you hold tight to your humiliator, your abuser, your apathetic acquaintances, your toxic friends… Sit. Think. Continue Reading →
Escaping Victimhood
Waiting for the other shoe to drop, the first a gentle tap, the second a casket lid closing, an echo spilling grief in your lap. It’s emptiness in a bottle Continue Reading →
Defining Your Lines (A Story of Self in Rhyme)
Unseen and huddled as she was in full view, she released dangerous tears anew. They flowed beneath her cheeks on the inside, falling to her heart’s emotional lies. A little Continue Reading →
Who’s There for You?
You try and you fail, and other times succeed, and over time you understand the one to count on, the one you need, is you. No other cares, or will Continue Reading →
Measure
Nature in her imperfect perfection, what humans ignore when advertisers preach statistical failings. And so, here we are, parts of the scheme, flawed, striving and wailing, yet always believing we’re Continue Reading →
Shelter
Shelter and harbor elusive, whether stone, wood, or an embrace. A warm place, a safe haven, too seldom realized, too often trapped in dreams where love has been. Now is Continue Reading →
Manipulations
Why must it be that others living their lives feel the need to live my life, too? Live it. Control it. Discard me when they’re done. I was raised on Continue Reading →
The Whole
Splitting post: one side sun, the other side none, each side a part of the whole where there are two sides in total; one side warmth on my face, the Continue Reading →