understanding – Secret Thoughts Within

Reconcile

Trigger Warning and Personal Note: The following poem is about about Bipolar disorder and some of its impacts. It also touches on childhood trauma and suicide in less obvious ways. This poem is incredibly personal and I ask that you treat it as such. Up until recently, I worked in mental health and understand theContinue reading “Reconcile”

To Reach You (with audio)

There was something so magical about you– swaying in the breeze, so mysterious. I had to reach out to you. I stretched myselfto the very edge, to point of falling. Finally, when I thought you were beyond my grasp, I caught hold of you. My heart swelled with joy, secure in my knowledge that theContinue reading “To Reach You (with audio)”

Soulmate

She’s always there, always, ready to listen to anything I have to say, just as I am for her. She can tell me her deepest darkest imaginings and I won’t even occur to me to be judgemental. I can tell her all my ugly thoughts and she knows how to interpret them with grace. SheContinue reading “Soulmate”