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I’ve touched thousands of hands Heard thousands more voices And not a single touch felt like fire in my veins Nor a single voice, sound like coming home Until you.

The feeling of despair Like swallowing darkness that lingers and pools deep within your body The kind of pitch black you only find in the far corner of the room, Wondering what might be staring back With a weight so heavy you can’t bear it But impossible to release. That voice echoing that you areContinue reading “Despair”

Never

There will never be enough, Love Beauty Laughter. There will never be enough, to be too much.

A feather

Falling, A feather descending like stone Waiting for the embrace of the net to envelope me in its vines, To hold me captive in its safety. It never did. A mirage, a belief that was never true A trap, like the illusion of water on hot pavement. As I look around, reaching for anything, IContinue reading “A feather”

A letter to me

Thank you. You’ve been through so much already in life, and while it is terrible to experience such pain and heartbreak, please believe me when I say, it wasn’t for nothing. All the panic, all the tears, the fear and sleepless nights, they all paved the way to where you are now. Every inch thatContinue reading “A letter to me”

Time

The most challenging thing, to me, in this life… Is time. The time it takes to do anything, is never the same Time with the ones you love is never long enough While time stands still in suffering. Falling in love can be instantaneous And waiting for Forever… takes an eternity Yet, time isn’t real,Continue reading “Time”

Happy to

In all my life, I’ve never known such freedoms. The freedom to laugh To cry Sometimes both. The freedom to relax To live At the same time. The freedom to exist To smile And be happy doing it.

Trigger

Everything has changed Yet, almost nothing at all. The rooms are quieter, calmer and relaxed There is space to breathe a full breath. I can close my eyes and let my shoulders drop. There is peace here. But my body tenses at the sound of every vehicle that passes by in the night. I canContinue reading “Trigger”

Possibly

I laughed. When shown kindness and care, I laughed. Because it must be a lie. How could it possibly be true? And then I almost cried… Could it possibly be true? ~A

Waters of life

I rise and fall with the water Pushed and pulled by the tide And when the waves come crashing down around me I struggle against the pressure The weight bearing down, I struggle to breathe And just as the promise of tomorrow starts to fade I gasp for air and feel the warmth of theContinue reading “Waters of life”