Confidence

I no longer mistake collapse for calling,nor absence for loss.The tremors that once splintered menow pass clean through -like wind through a netwoven from ten thousand hours of return. They call it confidence.I call it reclamation -the slow extraction of myselffrom all the places I was taught to vanish.I didn’t inherit this steadiness;I quarried itfrom...

Risky vulnerability

I never cared much for pretending. I cannot pretend, it isn't something that comes easy or naturally to me. Those who do pretend against what their heart holds, baffle me, they feel minacious. Now there are all these notions about pretending I'm all okay, I'm better off; I'm told to pretend like my life, dignity...

Huge milestones

(Artist - Aaron Jasinski) It has been a while and healing is an understatement. Transformation sounds more right. Despite stubborn pain forcing it to shut close, my open heart persists so willingly; and not in an unhealthy, boundary-less kind of way but in a limitlessness kind of way. My chest feels expansion, my mind feels...

Dear me, I love you.

It’s an unshakeable safety net of freedom. A love for yourself so deep that it defeats everything burdening so effortlessly. When it suddenly dominates, all the illusions and games of the surface are put to rest. When it takes over so vibrantly, your loneliness shudders in a quiet corner and dances shyly as you sing...