Introspection Woman Poems

Echoes of Resilience: A Girl's Journey to Voice


In the shadows, I stand, with a voice unheard,
Softness met with silence, my cries deferred.
Love brimming within, yet...

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Moved by the passion, 
of her own performance, 
an everlasting act,
written on the fly,
erratic,
a tactic,
to pass the time.

...

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God causes the day and the night to take their turn.
She permits fires to rage and forests to burn. 
He causes clouds to bring forth...

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Bring it up.
Shove it down.
Hate, accept, hate, accept, hate again.
This can't be me.
...could it be?
Not fully female, not fully something else.
Slowly changing, never the same....

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you spoke of boundaries
allowed me but secret gates
acknowledged only in the shadows
my ability to separate your reason
from your logic
and that is what you
never cared for...

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When I was born
I came equipped 
With two million seeds

Not warm enough 
Nor moist enough 
Or too many weeds

The sun not out
The soil not rich
Or...

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It matters getting dolled up; 
I didn’t realize how much 
until there was no reason,
no one around to see it ;
No more clothes flirting with...

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As I wash these dishes. 
I wash the wishes 
from these tired and ruined hands. 

I look out into the street 
with a thousand yard...

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A simple touch,
A kiss,
Raw, beautiful, passionate,
A message, 
One after another,
Learning, laughing, having,
Love, passionately made
More than I should have,
Too much,
I’m falling, 
I feel it in every...

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Maybe the last form of rebellion is pretty
Being pretty
Only pretty
Pretty useless
looking pretty on a leather couch at a house party
waiting for the world to sit...

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Into the distance, as far as the eyes can see;
Her thoughts swimming like fishes in the sea



Date written: 10/03/2021...

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Back there...
As far back
Into that corner
As she can go

Into the dark
And dust and webs
She never cared
If they were there
And never really
Noticed them
Because she knew
How they...

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Since I can't say the words that I want to use
We r going to have a little fun and light the fuse
I don't give 2...

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You chance upon her
in the far reaches of the backyard
a place you never go..
and there, she trembles
in the dark space 'neath the blackthorn shrubs 

faint...

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She was my child,
we became good friends. 
Like kindred spirits, 
we made plans together.
But she understood loneliness,
the need for a man.
He came after taking her...

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