If it Must Be
Loneliness swept into the room when she wasn’t looking, whispering her name, catching her breath, and tossing it away. On her knees, she screamed, “No, no more, I’ll not suffer Continue Reading →
Tag Archives: self-esteem
Who She’d Be
They told her, truth be told, she’d never be good enough, destined to be abandoned. Judgement, who they wanted her to be, meant her best effort would always fail, and Continue Reading →
Boxes
She knew all there was to know about boxes from the inside, how time within was liable to take your life over time. When she found herself she escaped her Continue Reading →
Breathing Life
Branded with shame for living her truth, scorned, threatened, driven to bleeding life so as to remember she was alive. Was living breathing, or was living having a life worth Continue Reading →
Transcending
She tried to be that peg for every hole, denying who she was in truth, until she discarded the template lies, embracing the unique as proof. Freedom was being comfortable Continue Reading →
Never Looking Back
It took so long, longer than it should have taken… she’d found her voice, found herself after a journey drowned in noise. She was free, finally free to be, yet Continue Reading →
Polly Chromatic
They called her Polly Chromatic, though it wasn’t her name. They said her real name didn’t matter, making one up was just the same. They didn’t count on her owning Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →