by amba | Dec 26, 2021 | Tattoos
Poetry and Tattoos They are so similar Ways we humans capture a memory A person An emotion A moment A love We write them down We brand them on our bodies Things of our mind, heart, and soul We sometimes regret their permanence after we imprint them with ink Whether...
by amba | Dec 21, 2021 | abuse, Demons, Healing, trauma
Somedays you still consume me I no longer feel the touch that haunted me This is deep inside where you twisted all the emotions made it so my trust was so broken No one else could ever have me I would never be able to trust anyone again And in that simple reality I...
by amba | Dec 18, 2021 | abuse, Demons, Healing, trauma
He gave me a story Something to believe Something to make me feel special Make me feel like we were destiny But I had been told that story before Different but the same and told another version Different but the same And I so wanted to believe And I can’t imagine any...
by amba | Dec 15, 2021 | Healing, Love
Close your eyes Picture yourself Tell me what you see I see me No, describe what you see Me, short buzzed salt and pepper hair weary eyes buried behind glasses tense mouth framed by wrinkles arms and legs with roadmaps of veins and arteries middle and thighs heavy not...
by amba | Dec 13, 2021 | Healing, maiden mother crone
When he is gone I will leave the twist tie off the bread leave the leftovers on the stove til bedtime put flowered wallpaper in the bedroom sit outside and howl at the moon When he is gone I will create my IRA squirrel money away for a rainy day pick my expenses sit...
