Uhmm??

I want to talk
about what happened
without mentioning
how much it hurt.
There has to be a way.
To care for the wounds
without reopening them.
To name the pain
without inviting it back
into me.
-- If There's A Way Out I'll Take It, Lora Mathis

what for type of slaying in the poetic world is this??
why didn't i write it??

god damn

Stunning..

I'm sorry..maybe I'm missing something here but...I just see this as an entry from a teen journal or something?

Lmao Helen 😂

I agree Helen, but even so, it's very descriptive and even poetic, hey, writing ones emotion is better than suicide, or holding it in.........

I wasn't meaning to sound bitchy so...sorry if it came across that way. Yakz...you have highlighted some really amazing poems in the past so this one just seemed a bit tame in comparison , that was all I meant.

Hahah maybe my taste has changed!

no i don't think you came across bitchy at all

i was just laughing at how blunt you are... lol

Yugs..<<<.(new word for giving Yaki hugs) still enjoying hearing about your big life and your big hair...keep us updated on life in Amsterdam!!!

Aaah, i wanna update more on my blog u know

yakarigabriel.com?

but i spend so much time on facebook -_-

Simple poetry at its finest :). I love it.

"If I'm entirely honest, and you say I must be I want to stay with you all afternoon evening, night and tomorrow pressed into you so tightly that we don't know whose belly made what sound, whose heart it is that is thumping like that until I don't know if the sweat on my chest is yours or mine or ours."
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

I love the bit about naming the pain without inviting it back to you..

So often we shove feelings and pain aside without properly dealing with them or processing them like we should. When it comes time to finally deal with that pain and those hurts... boom! It's back, and we're re-experiencing it.

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Love that one you just posted too!