I’m eighteen and I’m standing in the doorway of your house And you are telling me it’s just a phase Couched in your scorn is implied meaning That I am wrong to claim this part of me as identity And soon I will realize it I’m not surprised to hear this from you I didn’t… Continue reading Gathering
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Power
In my heart I make a home A temple cloister I may roam The safest place I’ll ever go For as above So below • I do not fear what I am shown I cast off judgement and I flow I give my trust to worlds unknown For as above So below • And when… Continue reading Power
Worthy
Your hand in my hair Does not feel the way The hands of other men have felt Absent from your touch Is the building aggression The palpable vibration of subjugation Which I had known before And which had mingled Stickily With shame To coat my heart and confirm Love holds pain Your hand instead conveys… Continue reading Worthy
Star Child
At the time I could not comprehend– And would not until after the end– The wisdom of the choice you made: The way you left, the way you came. I’d been daily drinking from the well Of my lonely nihilistic hell, And I don’t know if I’d have ever seen That there are other ways… Continue reading Star Child
Overfull
Waking up from a dream of being unable to breathe, a longing for air having forgotten how to draw breath, I am wracked Chaos clarifying in the space of an hour, becoming still so I can look down and see the intricate life below the surface of the water The rain which filled my mouth… Continue reading Overfull
Queen of Elves 