Beloved friend, fellow survivor, I thought I heard you say, “My innocence is forever lost.” Look again, look deeply, I say. Beyond existence and non-existence. Beyond birth and beyond death, Thus is your nature. …

Stigma will no longer sew my lips shut, it cannot. Stigma will no longer shame me into a shell, it cannot. Stigma is the toxin that runs through society, but no longer through me. …

the same way i count my thoughts in shapes & constellations strung together one too many times.

my love for you tastes like arriving home from a blizzard, your defrosted lips fireplace hands stoking our coals into embers

We change, turn over covers and apple strudels. We wake, fresh out the oven. We grow meeting seasons with new energy. Be a tree. We do not know why we are here. Neither do …

Learn To be Forgiving An open cloud Welcoming a rainbow Still rising After every storm Through lighting Quaking earth Fear and failure Stay in the sky Come nightfall Spread thin Straying into morning Accept …

We drift together 2 beings coasting along the horizon of our thoughts. I feel you caress my lips and bathe my body in sparkles. Ocean whispers lullaby’s to skies on blue afternoons when I’m …

I adore catching glimpses of you. I appreciate your illusions, miracles, and consequences. Everything about you intrigues me.

I breath solace Tasting flurries of foam Fantasizing of feathers Caressing the water Cleansing, I am here This moment turns Grey stones into safe spaces Contemplating nothing Enjoying my pencil tracing Over my pages …

It took oh so long to get myself straight Doubtfulness delaying all the right things Herbal teas, mysticism, oral fixations Wise words written by those from before me Take lots of advice, some good, …