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age
i do not plan on aging gracefullyi will not fight off what comes for us alllet my body sag as it grows back toward the earthlet me live my life not fearing some ambiguous end i will not tip toe and dancei am not better than my ancestorsthere is so much joy, anger, pain, beautythere…
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come home
I know you feel unworthy just being yourselfYou can feel the eyes on your bodyFeel their weaponized words building upWaiting to fire You armor yourself with self-deprecationIf you laugh the loudest then you aren’t the jokeYou’re the jester not the jestBut dear love I am hear to tell you, you are worthy of kindness and…
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Growing
Motherhood did not heal meIf anything it broke me a part in new waysGave me hopes and dreams and fears, god bone crushing fearsThe uncertainty that I’m doing this right, that I’m not ruining your childhoodAnd the love just grows, between our little family I get overstimulated in ways that make me want to peel…
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depress
it doesn’t feel like sadnessthat’s the part that’s hard to seeit isn’t tearsor sometimes it issometimes it’s sobbing until there is nothing left but salt it doesn’t really feel like sadnessthat’s what i’d want you to knowit’s more like a nothinga numbness creeping crawling through my thoughtsand it’s so heavy it doesn’t really feel like…
