by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
You said you would love me forever and I noticed my body responding as if to a threat and when I listened to this fear I saw a beautiful stallion with liquid brown eyes and deep passion and me every day with the rake, the buckets and hoses, tied to my...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
You do need to write them down otherwise the words fly away indifferent only rarely will the same come back and naturally you will lose a few, the birds that fly away because you can’t make space to feed them but if you let too many go the...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
My body will not go where my heart is not welcome, my heart will not travel where there is no room for my soul. I am knocking in the hope that you are there to open up. For too long I travelled with scissors, folding and cutting our white page to create...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
I need you to stand up not in manliness but in the soft strength of your man-woman self so I can stand freely in mine and we can comfort each other. I need you to grow up and help me grow down and find a way to know that we travel together to a place of not...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
Now that you are gone I am doing more heavy lifting, not just in the ways I expected. I’m discovering that the burdens are not light, nor particularly dark, that I may not lift them comfortably but my muscles are growing. It is only my need for...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
I love you so much but there I go, swallowing the way I don’t like you sometimes. It feels disloyal to admit, but real loyalty comes by sharing truth, even these sharp edges that have felt dangerous and now cut through the bindings on my heart so it can...
