What gives in letting go is so much better than what stays with holding on.
JEN HOLLYWhat gives in letting go is so much better than what stays with holding on.
JEN HOLLYWhy do I push up against the ones who will not have me like a wave pushing its way on the sand when my people are in the ocean and we naturally flow to protect each other.
JEN HOLLYThis is a poem about love its absence is merely an optical illusion.
JEN HOLLYBeing an empath is a gift – at the same time, you also carry the weight of the world.
JEN HOLLYBeneath this skin beneath these bones beneath this blood I exist.
JEN HOLLYGrief visits us all differently but at the core – it rots us a little.
JEN HOLLYAs I unfolded my hand she took my palm her eyes narrowed on the heart line and I knew by the look in my eyes I would always be heartbroken.
JEN HOLLYListen to the heart to its beat in time words are no match for what is spoken in the heart’s rhyme.
JEN HOLLYYou sucked all my love and all of me through your hollow straw I wish I had known there was nothing on the other side.
JEN HOLLYThe shelter is where I am when I am with myself.
JEN HOLLYFinding my way back to myself one day at a time.
JEN HOLLYMy lips thirst for yours but they are desert dry our hostile environment has weathered our love.
JEN HOLLYI have emptied myself of a heavy burden today lifted it out of my body and placed it down its not the end but it’s a beginning.
JEN HOLLYI will always meet you with kindness.
JEN HOLLYI want to be loved so I try to be you then I realize what I see in you is in the mirror looking back at me.
JEN HOLLYAll this time I knew I needed some really good therapy and I found it – in poetry.
JEN HOLLY