cold small half pain half numb compressed in on myself until I am hard light cocooned in the strait jacket I spun will you enfold me in strong arms? draw me up into your body’s warmth? remind me how to breathe? guide my muscles my bones back into the shape of a woman? © 2017 … Continue reading When I am Small – Christine E. Ray
it’s just pain it’s just pain fervent mantra echoing in my brain knuckles fisted white upon cane’s smooth purple handle muscles tendons resisting stretching tearing shrieking from ball and socket joint vertebrae compressed tight rub against each other in annoyance grating upon each other’s nerves I list drunkenly to the right sailor who has lost … Continue reading Monday Morning Mantra – Christine E. Ray
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 demons will catch me grasp my shoulders roughly with taloned claws if I risk rest? true danger true threat comes from within not without pangs of melancholy steel gray clouds … Continue reading Evasion
tiny fractures fan out a spider web at the point of impact where your thoughtlessly dismissive words became an ice pick that pierced my glass heart © 2017 & Revised 2019 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All Rights Reserved
Music at its most powerful. Full of heart. Full of pain. I've been on the low I been taking my time I feel like I'm out of my mind It feel like my life ain't mine Who can relate? I've been on the low I been taking my time I feel like I'm out of … Continue reading The Daily Song: 1-800-273-8255- Logic ft. Alessia Cara, Khalid
cold small half pain half numb compressed in on myself until I am hard light cocooned in the strait jacket I spun will you enfold me in strong arms? draw me up into your body’s warmth? remind me how to breathe? guide my muscles my bones back into the shape of a woman? © … Continue reading When I am Small
Brave & Reckless 