vulnerability

  • Finding Balance: When Superheroes Need to Take a Break

    I want to take it off This superhero costume Let me walk in gossamer kissed with the scent of rose and vanilla Pause this big, beautiful brain So I can rest Restoratively Not have to project manage you, you and you Because you can’t or won’t. It doesn’t matter which one Because I want to

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  • Never Was

    It was the love story that was never meant to be. She was too old, too grey, too fat, used up, and whatever else the red pill mafia told her. Not that she believed it. But still certain insecurities weighed on her mind as she watched KermitCrashOut at 12:12am and understood Kermit’s need to alternate

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  • Shadows

    Let me walk around your darkness While I tan in the glow of your smile The thoughts behind your eyes when you spread me on display and stare so intensely, I leak for you I lounge in your light as your laughter sparkles across the sheets but I crave your murkiness your intrusive thoughts at

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  • A Poet’s Mind

    The city moved past, her favorite pastime Watching the could be, what might be, the possibilities Of those lights, that room, this building, speeding the reflections of the river refracting in her mind what might be could she, would he, might be, the activities if she could keep her mind from wandering and wondering silence

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  • Unguarded Thoughts

    It took about 32.53 seconds after the call disconnected for her to realize her life shifted permanently and she would always be after and no longer before. And was that call really 37 mins and 17 seconds? Would the omens not leave her alone? 3, 17? Could these numbers hold any more significance for her?

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  • On Being Enough

    On Being Enough

    “Some men say that I’m intense or I’m insane” – Angelica Schuyler, Hamilton The Musical When I first heard the line above sung I screamed out YES! because it fit my life so perfectly. I have always been that woman. I have always felt like I am too much and yet, not enough. We know

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  • Exposed

    I was smiling When your words made the first cut effortlessly I felt no pain when my skin opened I didn’t feel the scalpel going deeper past skin then muscle then tissue Until you reached a door buried deep inside making me aware of its existence And shined a bright light across all the cavities

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  • Streams

    Thoughts Melancholy Needing to be held To transfer To receive To submit To be dominated To relieve myself To give over thought But trust But trust But trust Not for the faint of heart Not for the weak Physical Raw But fear But doubt But over thinking But this Stevie Wonder But this overjoyed But

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  • Lingering…

    “You linger in my mind every time I talk to you,” he told her on their last marathon phone conversation. Since they spoke on the telephone so sporadically, and saw each other in person even less, she knew he meant what he said as fact. But… He wounded her. Deeply. That’s why she had him

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  • Transformation

    Much respect to bell hooks, but she has it wrong. At it’s core, aren’t love’s extremes are a violent vortex of peace and of passion? Violent emotions that exist perfectly balanced in the chaos of paradox. Violence that makes us act irrationally – willing to give up our lives to protect those we love or

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