Tag: balance

Dear 2024

Dear 2024, If I had to pick a word to summarize you, that word would be balance. You were full of so many wonders, weren’t you? I did my last round of chemo this year which took a lot out of me but helped… Continue Reading “Dear 2024”

Past Self – A Poem

I’m struck by my past when I look upon a photo of myself. In the photo, I’m forever stuck in the pose of balance during a time where I was still trying to learn who I was and dream of what I wanted to… Continue Reading “Past Self – A Poem”

The Unknown Stages of Grief – A Poem

Grief is malleable. It shifts and moves like water through the mind. There are steps that have been forgotten. Grief is a caterpillar in the cocoon, and it has to completely lose its form and become nothing before it takes its final shape, growing… Continue Reading “The Unknown Stages of Grief – A Poem”

Dear 2023

Dear 2023, I’m not sure what you had in mind and I’m really not sure what to think about you, even now as the end of the year is a day away.   I think I went about 2023 in the wrong way. I… Continue Reading “Dear 2023”

Counting – A Poem

I used to count everything. It gave me control, brought me a kind of peace in a world where I had no control at all. The numbers would spill over into everything. I began to count fruit, clothes, shoes, pennies, words, books, vegetables, rings,… Continue Reading “Counting – A Poem”