you call me shrill loud bitch whenever I interrupt whatever VERY important thing you must be saying to speak my truth your tone patronizingly implying that my voice is so shrill it could break mirrors etch glass whenever I am audacious enough to steal the floor from you to speak but why settle for merely … Continue reading Shrill: Notes From A Loud Woman – Christine E. Ray
the dilemma of finding my voice is that it was not enough simply to speak this voice which lay dormant inside of me for so long buried beneath relentless responsibilities overdeveloped superego weighty titles such as mother wife employee rarely woman rarely even human being had become voracious what I thought merely a trickle of … Continue reading The Truth About Words
words are wily things that wiggle and twist ‘round my mouth they dart delicately hummingbirds toward the tip of my tongue then change direction abruptly midflight swallowed once again I long to give them wing allow them to feel the sun the air but they nest deeply in my throat unseen unsaid © 2020 Christine … Continue reading Aborted Flight
once I whispered my truths to the unfeeling dawn unheard unacknowledged my words began to build up choke me and in that stifling silence I discovered a voice within myself hot with rage pain deep in my soul simmering bubbling in my gut that erupted unexpectedly like a volcano cleared away the debris in my … Continue reading A Voice Like Lava Flowed
I held the silence for so long that it became a thing a monster with dripping fangs sharpened claws that began to gnaw at my heart shred my soul just when my days became as dark as my sleepless nights when I thought that finally I was done something deep inside stirred awoke courage rage … Continue reading Silence Severed
Adapted from a post published October 13, 2018 I am a writer, an editor, and a publisher with a background in clinical social work and neurodegenerative research. I am a mother, a wife, pansexual, dyslexic, living with Bipolar II, and fibromyalgia. I am an artist, an avid reader, and a lifelong advocate for social justice. … Continue reading Why We Still Will Not Be Silenced – Christine E. Ray
Brave & Reckless 