Before me there was a great abyss of nothingness
Darkness curled up around me in columns of smoke
Spoke my finals words and I plunged with faith
Scathe from rocks I feared but found the water warm
Harm did not find me within this strange ocean
Emotion burst through my mouth in bubbles
Troubles hidden away in my locked heart
Heard by you under this transparent water
Daughter of Wisdom I was supposed to be
Believe it I did not in the upper world
Curled within a shell of insecurities
Anxieties estranged me from my kindred
Dreaded my own being but you swam around
Crowned my worst fears, turned them into eulogies
Fallacies you exposed from my shattered soul
Whole you made me not but I could breathe again
***
(You were no magician
To believe one can easily heal is an illusion
But you reminded me I could swim
To fight against crashing waves seemed grim
You let me go knowing I wouldn't drown
I could keep afloat; I should have known
That I belonged with the living
There was no need for doubting)
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The Art of Loving and Losing
PoetryA collection of poems and short stories reflecting upon loving and losing yourself and the people who matter most to you. The book focuses on the complexities of living in a human world filled with relationships that can make and break us. They are...
