Overcoming

The mind doesn't want to go there
To that place of pain and regret
But THE BODY still...

You wanted me to change the ending
As though a happier ending would pacify
It felt like you...

I only saw the broken pieces
I couldn't see beyond the pain
I thought my life was over...

My life that once was shattered
Splintered, torn apart
I gathered up the broken pieces...

Wounded little butterfly

Trembling in his hand

She couldn't trust just anyone

Why...

I remember being helpless

With a sense of impending doom

I remember feeling defenseless...

Controlled by an inner child's fear

I spent a lifetime on the run

I blamed my inner fearful...

I was trying to be the good girl

And do what I was told

I thought I'd be protected

...

You’re gonna lose.
And I say this in the most unpresumptuous way possible.
Because I’ve been...

I learned a very long time ago
To keep things buried deep inside
Things you're not allowed to...

Living beneath the layers
Inside the brokenness of me
I internalized the trauma
In...

Forget me, not !
as the last bloom withers
as the last leaf falls
for the kiss of...

If we seek to understand the present, we can transcend our consciousness, far beyond our wildest visions...

My mother would always stick a candle next to my father’s ashtray,
and I, being a boy, thought her...

I burned a flag today.
She didn't rock she didn't sway.
She didn't cry out or scream or fuss...

Time has passed by
Years have come and gone
Now, old and grey
I'm still trying to...

What is the good, of being so strong
If it's left me detached and lonely
What's the purpose...