I’d love to stay up there with youBut there is something I must doIt won’t matter how much you pull nowI will always break free somehow Can’t you see your grip is only making me feel numb?Let me show you how strong I have becomeI can live without the protection of your lovely silkIt ...

Motherhood is one crazy roller coaster of emotional ups and downs. While a handbook would be nice and often feels required, one does not exist.

Motherhood is all about stretching. Your body, your heart, your patience, your understanding, your compassion, your boundaries, and your capabilities—all stretch to accommodate the addition of fresh life you are meant to raise. The augmentation to every facet of your being sometimes feels like stretching cold muscles; it hurts. Shame and guilt lurk in corners ...

In one year it’s a shadow, following. Taking the shape of a person. Just not the person she lost.

At the bottom of the sea two rocks clasp her ankle like a bear trap with no teeth. She went down there, under the water when her first child crept out of her own. Submerged for years. Overhead, the sunlight trickles. Figures bob. Bubbles from her lungs float to meet the surface. She sees through ...

Hold the baby who burbles words you don’t know yet, words that aren’t but are puffs of air burst from fat cheeks,

My heart weeps silently          for the child                    I once carried My mind paralyzed          with fear of a reoccurrence                    but my body longs                             to be the vessel That carries your          fragile, tiny frame                    supporting you in                             my cracked container You fluttered and          my heart melted                    connecting ...

What inside of me won’t give up?How do I survive each day?What makes me feel this way inside?What else is there to say?No one listens, even through the shoutsin spite of my best effortsMy empathy and humbleness puts me out.I still wake up with hope and love in my hearteven though I knowthat by days ...

Trigger Warning: Abuse, Murder, Hallucination     Hate keeps a man alive. It keeps him going. And James is full of it. He’ll no doubt live a long time, and he’ll hate her, all the days of his life. When he does die, his soul will go on to hate her. He vows to haunt ...

You give me a pill Tell me it’s magic; You say it will fix all my issues- and make me whole again. You blame the pandemic; rightly so. But will the pill fix the state of the world? The pill you’ve gifted will help with mood personal connections feeling hopeless and helpless anxiety but what ...