Tag: trust
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The science of loving you.
I am like fire and tar, burnt out and stuck to the pavement. I’m leftover and left out and everything in between. But you see, there’s a strange culture here, a community, an entire ecosystem where the world thrives around me, and I wither away. I was planted here, but my roots don’t grow. My […]
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The words on my soul.
Like a dog returns to his vomit… Oh, that hits home. The Book of Proverbs hits the head on the nail when it comes to defining fools. And I often feel like my picture needs to be plastered all over it. For the most part, I tend to err on the side of discernment. I […]
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The feel and weight of it.
All of this is much like rubbing my palm into broken glass or the time I did the splits during dance class and a perplexingly long sliver of wood that had popped itself up from the floor entered my bare leg. I received stitches for that one. The pain was measurable but this one, not […]
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Heart full of arrows.
I am most relieved when I lose sight of it. When my heart is face up and my mind has wandered off to play with butterflies. That niggling in the back of my brain, uppermost veterbra beneath the skull, where all thoughts comingle and threaten to ruin me. I am chosen. I know this. But […]
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These tiny slivers.
There are tiny slivers of this time that I try to pick up and pocket, but you know me. I have no balance anymore. I fall over and away from my intended desire, and there I am, left with nothing but lint. How is it we’re here already? My daughter will be thirteen this summer, […]
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