No one can take what is really yours.. Just like what is not really yours will never be. What is meant for us finds us and it will stay against all odds and barriers. I have taken so much comfort in this fact. Learning to let things flow… to not dig my nails in them

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Make a home and me. I have already made the bed, set the table, prepared everything… All I need is you here the blood & the bones

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I am trying…I know you see that I am tryingyou felt me arriveand nowyou must feel my attempt at departureforcing myself to move away from youyet secretly hoping to look back and seethat you are not far behindhand outstretchednot willing tolet me go the blood& the bones

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I have lived in the space between your ribs. You will not rid yourself of me. the blood & the bones

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A journal entry… …. It’s the way your words are flat now and I am left to fill in the blanks. And how unfortunately my head and heart will fight over what that silence means. When really all the feeling of uncertainty should deliver is that there is nothing more for me.. I should know

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some will show youtheir skinand that’s okwe all have a role to playbut I want to pry myself openexposingnot just my soulbut a mirror thereso that you maysee your own the blood& the bones

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I am slowly pulling away… the sound of fabric tearinga body sliding across a bench seata boat leaving shore can you feel it? the blood& the bones

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far too manyspeak aboutwhiskey they have neverpoured and bloodthey have nevereven tasted the blood& the bones

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I picked out black dresses standing in my closet, shuffling the hangers back and forth trying to find the best one. I picked out black dresses to wear for my mother who’s heart has not stopped beating but they said that it could. I picked out black dresses and I wondered if the doctor knew

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I was asked to write a bio for a reading. I wanted to keep it simple and open. Here’s what I came up with.. I write for every woman who ever loved a warrior and tell the stories of men who couldn’t find the words. LLthe blood& the bones

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