If you’ve never experienced labor, then you have not had the singular experience of going through transition. But transition is the best metaphor for what I am feeling right now, so let me try to explain. Maybe some of you can relate. Transition is the period of labor starting when the woman’s cervix approaches maximum dilation…
Category: Life
The Wild
So many years I toed the line…
Maybe the Path Chose You
I had a dream one night.
Love, Lost
Last night I finally said goodbye. In many ways, perhaps, our early loves are always phantoms echoes of what we wish to see tinged by rose-tinted hormones flushed cheeks Drunk on fresh love’s elixir, we pledge our troth to an hallucination bind our hands to a passing dream. At least, I would like to believe…
Cliffhanger
That feeling when you can’t quite feel whatever that feeling is – Like a threatened sneeze, a word on the tip of your tongue, the snippet of song dancing at the edge of memory, A penultimate chord hung with unbearable tension – – but it’s just your soul, too frightened to settle into your lonely…
You.
Last night I cried. It all became too much; the constant pain, The loved ones who have died, The dire gloom and doom from every side, The heavy chain Of trauma I have dragged about for years. Decades of fears – Of failing, falling, fear itself – rushed in And overflowed my fractured dam with…
Screaming Demons
Someone, please tell me it’s going to be ok. I spend my life…
Finding Magic
Magic is found in the in-between spaces, Dappling the grass at the edge of the trees; Whispering soft in the hues of the sunset, Lapping the line between sandbars and seas, Rising to welcome the mists of the morning, Gently caressing with eventide’s breeze. Look for the sparkle in thunder and raindrop; Look for the…
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