I am both mud and lotus but, my love you only see the mud.
JEN HOLLYI am both mud and lotus but, my love you only see the mud.
JEN HOLLYThrough poems, I speak the language of my soul and the emotions of my body onto paper.
JEN HOLLYThe shelter is where I am when I am with myself.
JEN HOLLYBeneath this skin beneath these bones beneath this blood I exist.
JEN HOLLYThere came that day in mid-July I never saw it coming I don’t know why house empty and you gone you imprinted my heart with that Leonard Cohen song.
JEN HOLLYMy heart is my muse my blood is my ink my pain is my pen my words are my healing.
JEN HOLLYFriendships made rejections laid follows stayed unfollows played saves surmount algorithm count Instagram disses and emoji kisses.
JEN HOLLYI miss you but not as much as I regret leaving myself to be loved by you.
JEN HOLLYI will always meet you with kindness.
JEN HOLLYI still have hope that one day someone will love all of me – from the hallelujahs right down to the hallows.
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 HOLLYEven my tears fall for you.
JEN HOLLYRelease the person’s place thought-feeling.
JEN HOLLYOur lives are now changed forced a new we start again it’s all we can do.
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 HOLLYWhy do I paint a happy face every single holiday when they are a stinging reminder of what and who is absent.
JEN HOLLY