• Dare Me to Break

    This is a short poem, reflecting on hope. Pause, breathe, then begin. If you can, read it out loud to yourself. May it bring you some comfort in whatever ways you need it. How do we hold onto hope? It is fragile. A creature often paired with misery, as if to truly taste the sweet one must also taste the bitter. It likes to run, hope does. Take its sweetness and flee. It is too delicate for catching back like some ordinary thing. Even in small doses, it is strong. Palpable, even. It rises to the surface in seas of nothingness- internal storms beware the buoyancy. If you call to…

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  • Why do we hide?

    I sit here on my phone, and I see it right there on the screen. The friend with the secret. The one the world forgot. The one who hides because she is afraid of who will love her if they know her, truly. And my heart breaks. This friend. This heart that hides thinking hiding is safety and safety is goal and aren’t we all the heart that hides? Don’t we all have our secret spaces of unspoken broken we push to the far corners of our lives because the fear of being known and unloved, that weight is too great and its so much easier to give half self,…