Oh the voices in my headThey say You’re not good enoughYou’re not enoughAre you sure? Oh I know youThe judgemental one Oh the voices in my headThey say You’re lazyYou’re arrogantSo slow Oh I know youCriticism personified Oh the voice in my headThey say You don’t work hardYou don’t deserve it Oh I know youDistrustful […]
We are here For each other For us What made these women come together and share Not that anyone had anything less to do Nor any fewer holds on their calendars But we were all here In that Zoom call (Otherwise so transactional and scheduled) With our guards down Speaking from our hearts To faces […]
How do you hold it together When your whole world seems to fall apart And you barely have some mettle Let alone any remnants of steel You hold yourself together With tape and glue and scraps Any shard you can hold onto Every fragment of your heart Darkness is calling you And you’ve never been […]
If the earth is our homeAnd we are recognized citizens What duty is ours to partake To live up to the namesake Citizens of earth Celebrate earth dayIn your virtual world Full of promises and hopes Reality is shamefulWe are living a lieCan you face this Without shying your eye Citizens of earth Do we know what that meansAnd […]
“I would’ve thought you are a writer.” I don’t know what it is that the girl in the chocolate store in Belgium saw in me, but it was more than I had ever seen in myself. She saw my truth, she saw me for who I was. Writing has been my singular truth long since […]
One of the many side effects of living away from “home”, of opening your world, or better yet your mind – it’s just not enough, nothing. Where do I belong? A question that haunts me in broad daylight, one I know is not unique to me, yet is my very own. You are not born […]
I began to thinkwhat do I wantthis year was about finding just thatnow it’s come to closeand I’ve never felt so lost It made me thinkwhat do I wantthat’s when I started finding myself… Deep within (it really is where the answers lie)But how often do we ever start there?How often do we even look […]
There used to be a time, not so long ago, (well actually…pretty long ago), when I would write out my agony, the emotions that defined me. It was the inception of my relationship with poetry. Oh the sweet, sweet years of teenage, where every emotion that you feel is as high as heaven, as fiery as […]
