Embrace the feeling of being you. You are existing- and that is extraordinary.
JULIA KELLOGG HENRYLast winter was colder than usual. Maybe it was the warmth that died with the millions of lives covid stole, or maybe it was the way close people betrayed me and left a gaping hole.
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Writing saved my life when it all became too much. I poured my pain out into poetry I let the paper absorb everything I’d been holding on for years.
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Thoughts are just visitors passing through our minds, sometimes they stay awhile uninvited- anxiety.
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Last winter was colder than usual. Maybe it was the warmth that died with the millions of lives covid stole, or maybe it was the way close people betrayed me and left a gaping hole.
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I have had many highs and lows in my short life neither stays long enough to be familiar.
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We lock away our secrets and push them deep down so they feel farther away but they will always be inside us, no matter how well we hide the key.
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You have always been able to manipulate my heart in such a way that even though I’m bleeding, I offer you band aids that are holding me together.
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Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
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Sometimes I just want to put my hands in the air and scream all the reasons I love life into the wind. Until someone comes along to celebrate with me.
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I’ve spent a lot of my life being lost but aren’t those the best adventures?
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Noticed that I had been holding my breath for so long and finally gave myself permission to breathe.
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But maybe, We don’t need to be whole to be complete, maybe the fact that we are all a little unfinished is what makes us so alluring, so human.
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Then the light came and swept me off my feet.
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Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
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I wonder if she understands how different she is from any other friends I’ve had, If she recognizes how many of my poems are about the way our souls entwine, If she’ll ever know how much I love her.
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Sitting watching the sunset she was thinking about him the way she always did when she saw something beautiful.
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