Tag: alone

• I am not lonely

  I am not lonely; I am alone, though you would likely never know for all the sound and fury, chaos and light that fills my days and chokes my nights. I am not falling apart; I am many parts- emotions and habits, experiences, art, bandaged together by a fragile gravity that I call my self (mystery…

  revweisass

  October 6, 2022

  poetry

  alone, broken, falling apart, lonely, lovely, poetry

• Arroyos Secos

  Oh snap. I allowed myself to be drawn, like an unwitting child following the distant call of the ice cream truck, to this place I did not want to be. Every crevice of this unforgiving territory is bathed in the intimacy of familiarity: the dark, warm hollows that offer their dubious shelter and the golden…

  revweisass

  September 22, 2022

  poetry

  alone, intimacy, living water, poetry, Prayer, territory, wild

• The Rhythm of Waiting

  What happens next– after anguished letters and halting words, fraught conversations over pints in the pub and strained silences which suffuse this room where we lay our bodies down each night in solitary solidarity wondering: can this last? Where do we go when we cannot go from here?

  revweisass

  September 7, 2022

  poetry

  alone, poetry, solidarity, waiting