donned my badass black dress today mourning colors for a softer kinder woman I think I used to be she’s fading away curves lost to
Tag: Depression
Evasion
swimming hard against the current in choppy white surf running barefoot in cold wet sand legs straining aching but afraid to stop to breathe what
Paler Shade of Winter
i long to paint but this unceasing palette of dirty whites of tired grays that lurks outside every window sucks the rich marrow from my
I Am the Sorrow
some days I do not just feel sorrow some days I am the sorrow I am the grey sky that threatens spitting snow I am
Submersion
waters rose ‘round me so gradually so soothingly I barely noticed when gentle lapping against bare toes became insistent nudging of knees hips shoulders with
The Cubic Weight of Sadness
sadness covered her a blanket of thick wet snow yardstick-deep melancholy weighed her to the ground masked her eyes filled her nose her mouth deadening
