Category Archives: Loss and Grief
Stitched to Me (when grief won’t go away no matter how far you walk)
The walks started after. I didn’t decide to start walking. I just found myself at [...]
Craving Silence (when you’re full of everyone else’s noise)
Sometimes it’s not depression. It’s not antisocial either. It’s just being full. Too full of [...]
Why?! Why is This Happening to Me? Why Me? (searching for meaning)
“Why?” I screamed it at the ceiling at midnight. “Why, fucking, why?” Wrote it in [...]
Step by Step (moving through when grief is overwhelming)
The clock clicks. The fridge keeps its low chant. A glass on the counter wearing [...]
Just There (will it ever stop hurting?)
Everyone wants to know when grief ends. When you’ll be “over it.” When you’ll stop [...]
To No One (the love you carry whether you want to or not)
You carry it like a burden, like a gift, like a curse, because even when [...]
I Bore Myself
There is a specific humiliation of being able to predict your own breakdown. Exhausted, disgusted, [...]
Debris of Devotion (healing from spiritual manipulation)
I got caught in spiritual manipulation that messed with my mind. Here, I explore that [...]
Mute (you might never touch them again)
They clench their will into a fist, and just like that— let you go. Mornings [...]
Within to Without (writing poetry for emotional healing)
One of the most powerful ways I’ve learned to ‘sit with my feelings’ came through [...]
Prayer for Ukraine (when all you can do is fall to your knees)
I feel the warm soil with my bare feet. Flooded by tears, my heart struggles [...]
Tears Don’t Lie (So why do we cry?)
This poem reframes tears as this powerful, soulful language, beyond just sadness or joy. It [...]
The Dual Pulse (holding rage & love through war)
A spoken word piece written in 2022 when Russia started bombing my childhood streets in [...]
In Case I Forget (Lyme disease brain)
Explore the profound impact of memory loss and the delicate dance of forgetting and remembering [...]
Dare to Bear (staying vulnerable when life kicks you in the teeth)
When life kicks us in the teeth, we armor up. We build walls, shut down, [...]
Heartbeat of the Pack (grief and the ones who stay)
Moonlight on snow. Frost on fur. The world held tight in white.
Without You
How do you learn to live without someone you love? How do you exist in [...]
Grooves
What It’s Done Regret keeps showing up like it lives here. It is punctual, repetitive, [...]
Things That Take Time
Sometimes grief doesn’t come out in words, sometimes it just needs a place to land. [...]
No Words (a poem on chemo brain & cognitive fog)
When Words Vanish After Chemo The surgeries were grueling, the chemo a relentless assault on [...]