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Strength

For twenty-seven years of my life, I scraped by in survival mode, carrying a broadsword and deflecting what I could, tending to the wounds of what I could not. I sought security in friends who still made space for me, allowed myself brief moments of rest, expressed my hurts and challenges and received the encouragement needed to limp back out into the world. These moments lingered for the length of an exhale, and came once every full moon.

Safety Locks

This beast of anger and defensive observation ignores you, it rests when you arrive, sits outside the door and lets you pass without so much as a glance. It has deemed you unthreatening. It has deemed you safe.

The Trauma Of Belief

I met god as an eighth grader.

The Curve Of Breasts, The Blade Of Purity

Her caress is a breath. It is mist brushing along the surface of a stream.

I Need You To Say It

Before the coil of worry could take root within my spinal cord, her lips met mine.