I am unavoidably who I am I am a wanting warrior and a retreating renegade I let sorry sleep in my throat and yes hide in my coat pocket I am a gypsy without a caravan an eagle without wings and a star without a galaxy I am lost in a world that is justContinue reading “11/24/18”
Category Archives: Poetry
weather
the rain can be so calming refreshing cathartic but I am a thunderstorm without any rain pent up and rumbling crying for somewhere to go to run to hide to be and work myself out but a thunderstorm without any rain is a rainstorm without any rainbow
failure
failure feels like fake smiles a hollow stomach and a drooping soul though it’s only a bruise I see a tattoo my mirror shows a scarlet F stamped across my face dripping down my cheeks and into my mouth so everything I say is tinted red how dare I believe my only risk was flyingContinue reading “failure”
dissociation
what do you do when you don’t want to die but you don’t always want to live when life is beautiful enough to keep you focused hope is strong enough to pull you up and love is sweet enough to stay on your tongue but nothing is loud enough to drown out your thoughts
mixed signals
anxiety suffocates me under my own thoughts then tells me I need to breathe more
Excerpt from “The Dreamers”
I want to be a dreamer because sometimes when I wish on dandelions I don’t blow every seed off with one breath and sometimes when I smile it’s because I have to and sometimes when I see a rainbow I’m still mad that it rained and sometimes I whisper to the wind as it kissesContinue reading “Excerpt from “The Dreamers””
anne taylor 