Tag: emotions
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Blue skies
I’m slowly learning to see blue skies When I was taught to see the grey The thunderclouds of disappointment The sharp lightning strikes of shame I’m starting to see the marvel of rainbows Fractured light through drops of rain The hidden beauty found when sorrow Gives way to hope as life begins again I will…
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The Guest
You arrive Uninvited Say you’re here To help Yet you sit there In silence Disapproving Looking hurt A guest here Taking over Making everything About you Telling us what To think, feel Not interested In the truth And I’m reminded Of my childhood How I tiptoed Around Scared of offending Your feelings Of invoking Your…
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Fury, fibromyalgia, and the big fat Twitter storm
Fury I woke this morning from a dream where I was manhandling a doctor who had looked at my body and laughed when I told him I had had an eating disorder. Screaming in his thin, male face, I grabbed him by his collar and wanted to smash the back of his head against a…