We walk in circles, never knowing when to end the cycle our hearts put us in.
RENEE STONEWe walk in circles, never knowing when to end the cycle our hearts put us in.
RENEE STONEI bear the fruits of your memory in the expression of my art for that is what you gave to the world.
RENEE STONEI want to tell them how tired I am because I don’t think it shows. But maybe it’s the same for them – all strangers to the weight each of us carries. So alone, we carry these loads.
RENEE STONEIf I could reverse time, I would spend more time looking into what ailed my loved ones – would have learned more about medical gaslighting.
RENEE STONEI spill words among pages so that I can’t say my thoughts are stuck in cages. Can’t say I didn’t let it out when I can say for sure I wrote it down.
RENEE STONELet go of the honey-sweet lies for the bittersweet truths.
RENEE STONEBody and mind aren’t separated. And so all these things I write, they are felt in the aches of my heart.
RENEE STONEI was never lonely alone because love has come to me in many forms, and one of them was you.
RENEE STONEI wonder why I’m so empathetic, why people perceive me to be so kind. I don’t want my heart to burn when there’s no one burning mine.
RENEE STONEMy words decay. I grow as they fray, unbecoming in the passage of time.
RENEE STONEI grew up learning history about communities that would support their people (the idea that it takes a village), but all I see are so many people left on their own.
RENEE STONEI can assure you that I don’t wake up every day with a smile upon my face, and the distance from happiness in the morning isn’t set at a constant rate.
RENEE STONEI write poems of the past; they reveal the reasons we didn’t last.
RENEE STONEThere is a warmth that fills the soul when the sun’s rays tend to your skin from up above.
RENEE STONEI try to build myself a bridge to cross every time I start to ruminate on my thoughts.
RENEE STONEHere you are, another heartache to guard under my wings as I wait wondering when it’ll be time for me to fly.
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