Tag: hurt

Mental Health

What You Get

Ruby Pipes2 Comments

"Shattered..." © Spyros Papaspyropoulos, 2014. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
“Shattered…” © Spyros Papaspyropoulos, 2014. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
My brain can’t carve out the words to explain this.
Can’t find a way to melt them together.

Can’t form anything cohesive.

I’m all spitting and cursing today. Teeth grinding out of my head. Continue reading →

Autobiography

Hoping for Sky

Ruby Pipes2 Comments

"Page @ Octavia Utility Wires" © Lynn Friedman, 2011. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
“Page @ Octavia Utility Wires” © Lynn Friedman, 2011. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
I’ve been sick since Saturday. Stuck in bed under blankets and forcing fluids. My time has been divided between Parks and Recreation episodes, attack plans for February, and conversations peppered with statements like, “No. Stop right there. No more thinking.”

Hush, little one, sometimes rest really is all you need.

Poetry

A letter to those struck by the loneliness of December

Ruby Pipes8 Comments

"Flowers in december" © Daniel Horacio Agostini, 2009. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
“Flowers in december” © Daniel Horacio Agostini, 2009. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
I tear out pieces of my heart.
Leave them like bread crumbs.
They will show you the way back.
Proof
at least one person
feels like you.

We don’t know how to fill those spaces.
Tried booze
and drugs.
Food
and lack-thereof it.
Razor blades
and perfect strangers. Continue reading →