There are days when this war is not my own. Ancestral threads pull, tear apart my heart, as if claws and teeth rip me open, their cries sound familiar, like they are part of my DNA. She, the Mother, and her Mother, and her Mother, and her Mother... I claim her eyes when I look…
There is a storm rolling in. Oh, what this means for my heart as very often the weather mimicks how I feel inside. With the windows and doors open I can smell the rain about to deluge from rolling grey skies, the air just dropped about ten degrees *I am a human temperature detector. I…
If I could pick a super power of all there ever could be, I would choose to see inside of you, and let you see inside of me.I would dig deeper than any other's eyes can go and I would unearth all the things you do not want me to know. Your fears your doubts…
Consider the grave where I lay to die Colors faded you stopped asking why Give up the hope you claimed for so long Gather grace to sing my deliverance song The world is watching as I turn away Their eyes weeping as I stop to say Farewell my darling I will not be returning Forgive…
Do you remember the many days of your life? The quiet moments that passed so slowly, adventures you had wished would never end, the tragedy that came out of nowhere, the love that changed your heart and taught you the greatest lessons? Do you remember? I cannot forget. It goes far back to snapshots of…
Sometimes, I guess it's just the time of year, I get stuck in this loop of remembering days that have long been through. A season of two years, a period of my history that is wrapped up in the very best and worst moments of this life so far. I see him. So many people…
Dearest Christina,  When I look at your life until now, I see so much strength. I know the deep pain you felt, some that came to you very early in your life – I know the nights you cried yourself to sleep, just wondering how you’ll get up tomorrow and do it all again.…
Day One. I can't articulate this, I am trying. I've erased many lines. But something has to come out. A deliverance of all this heartache. For years, I've been told if I don't change, he'd leave. For years, he tried. To change me with love, stability, kindness, effort. Thinking, if she finally felt these things,…
I remember this girl from long ago she could not see it she did not know that it would pass that time would show some things we want we can't control so a story emerged and she began to write of a boy and his love and the dark soul of nightI remember a time…
With a deep breathe, focused, I meet it oncemore - a part of me, a season of this life - to reveal a part of the person I knew then. She and I, we are very different now, yet like a tattoo, she remains with me always. It was a time of great existential unrest.…
Her Heart on the Outside 