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January 31, 2019

Sleeping At Last
One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, You Are Enough


Of all the ways I could be better, in my mind
A mess of a story I'm ashamed to tell
lost my balance when I needed it most

the blurry photograph
Of what I’m not sure, feels like truth
As if I could earn God's favour given time
My greatest failures with an asterisk, utterly worthy of love

I want to watch the universe expand
already brave enough to let go
I want to be here
Truly. Be. Here

Even the darkest of nights
there will be light
waiting behind

As if I could let myself be seen
A sanctuary I was made
When everything feels heavy, I've learned to travel light
I will love you without a single string attached


do not call me a victim
you have not-
i am no less a victim than you are
you cannot-

i have broke at far worse
i have broke at far worse

do not call me a victim
you have never-
you will never-

Tags writings
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Things I’m Obsessing now

  1. Atlantis: The Lost Empire

  2. The Queer Art of Failure

  3. Feast: Why Humans Share Food

  4. Dianxi Xiaoge

  5. Rebuilding

  6. Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing During the Holocaust

  7. Tasting History

  8. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

  9. Midnight Diner

  10. Millennium

  11. Waiting for the Barbarians

  12. 101 Dalmatians

  13. xxxHOLiC


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