Why
does ordinary, everyday life
feel so devastating?
(Apr. 2022)
Forgiveness XVI
Two of the most freeing lessons I’ve learned in life:
1. Don’t hold your forgiveness of others hostage to whether or not they are sorry.
2. Don’t hold your forgiveness of yourself hostage to whether or not others forgive you.
Misfit
“You are only free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place—no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.”-Maya Angelou
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Dear sister:
When you feel the discomfort
of not fitting in somewhere,
rejoice!
It means you have a shape.
Cracks
I was a beautiful piece of glass
that you never held up to the light.
Do you still adore me
now that you can see my cracks?
(3/31/22)
Flaw in the Code
Society is a machine.
Be a flaw in the code.
Maturity
A bad thing happens.
Instinctively, I run to my well of self-pity.
I see that it has run dry.
I have learned to create instead of surrender.
(Mar. 2022)
Mountaintop
I reached the mountaintop
and realized the view up there
wasn’t worth losing the company
I’d had down in the village
(3/23/22)
Equations
Listen, sister:
If he doesn’t like you back,
that’s an “A ≠ B,”
not an “A < B.”
You didn’t belong there,
but that doesn’t mean you weren’t good enough
(written 3/6/22)
Acceptance
Acceptance isn’t passive.
It is active.
It is facing and contending.
Trying
I’m not perfect,
but I am trying.
Trying isn’t everything.
It doesn’t undo the mistakes I’ve made,
heal the people I’ve hurt,
or bring back the time I’ve wasted.
But it IS something.
It is not nothing.
Musings and Music 