Please do not run away or hide from the things that make you human. Do not be ashamed to reach out and touch the things that truly make your heart smile- or unpack the things that make your bones feel heavy. I know you were taught (too much) emotion will kill, but no emotion will kill just as much too. Please do not be afraid to identify and put a label on the things you are feeling: the things that call out to you from the void. You need emotions and you need to feel them, how else will you sustain life, how else will you manifest what you desire. Do not let anybody tell you that showing emotion, is a sign of weakness. Hiding emotion when you're bursting – wanting to express them, that is a sign of weakness. But showing emotion, being real and vulnerable in a world that tells you to bottle up and contain yourself, limit yourself: that is brave. It is so brave to acknowledge and flaunt that you are human, that you feel and that you are just as confused and unsure as anyone else on this journey. Please don't be shy or embarrassed to express your emotions, you may miss out on so much, just because you chose to act like a robot. Show up, get on that bus, buy them a cup of coffee, have the hard talk, speak the truth you believe in, even if you consider it too much, it is as enough as you want it.
shevaun stonem
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letters to someone
Puisiliterally free verse poems, writings and maybe even a paragraph or two, addressed to someone. the "someone" here is not specific, not the same and not a real person. it could be anyone :)))
