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About my elder cat.
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There’s too much indescribable pain
To even come close to validate with words
What she’s trying to get out or explain,
Yet, still, lexi..
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My sister, Greta, found my poem "To My Father" online and read it. She replied via email--I put it in poem form.
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To my beloved father,
I hope you know deeply how I love you
Just like I do to my mother,
But there is something I must ask of you.
Of all the tr..
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Why can’t I forgive myself?
I’ve faced sexual and domestic abuse,
And hid my problems on the shelf.
Now, I feel like I don’t have..
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I hate myself!
I hate this ugly bag of skin!
I loathe thyself—
This continuation of kin.
From my despicable physical features
To my malic..
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About a student I once had who was severely neglected.
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Oh, sweetest heavens of God,
What a blessing you have sent me
The sweetest creature sleeps.
He sleeps so peacefully, beside me.
So gentle, peace..
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With a massive, muscular neck
And long sturdy joins and cannon bones
She floats like a feathery speck;
Her body, with many muscular tones.
The s..
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What did I do to deserve to look like this?
Why can’t I be pretty?
How have I offended Adonai like this
To deserve obesity?
I allow my sto..
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