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Daily Poetry Prompt - Something Always Out of Reach

Where it lies (beneath a shadow I can not break an incorporeal nemesis that is of me) just out of reach (though I strain my arm imagining it longer than it is, wiggle my fingers in earnest, try to make myself smaller to fit) I can see it as it is but cannot grab it as I am. Struggling against a force of will bound to my own it would be so simple to simply let it be knowing that it would come to me or I to it (like a scared animal, I can’t make eye contact, but only speak in soothing tones). It’s not that easy when waves of habitual self-sabotage pummel you at the shore, send you tumbling and drowning in the familiar darkness the light little more than shimmers that filter through, beautiful but untouchable. If all it takes is to stand up from the depth emerge from the shadow see what is true (not what is real) it should be so easy (not just simple) to just stand up, arms wide open, and embrace it. How does one stand when their own legs force them to sit?

-MjM

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Footstep Footstep Pause Gaze into the green light misty, angled beams of sun through leaves Breeze on cheek, then none The sound that surrounds is a strange silence quiet yet loud It seems familiar, a memory locked away inside you All of it has a place and a purpose; cicada song being sung a rustle in the undergrowth, the water trickling over rocks rounded with time This is home This is home

Daily Prompt - I Come From

I come from a broken home Filled with memories where I am sad But I was not sad, not all the time I come from a broken home Where my full-time mother had a full-time job to keep our cupboards full and our bellies the same I come from a broken home Where all our friends would gather on summer break and the streets were safe for us to play dawn to dusk I come from a broken home light and yellow, marred and dark for decades after because it is easier to be sad if you always have been I come from a broken home golden joined by the love we made though not always said I come from a home where my heart will always be and my heart will always be with me

-MjM

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panatmansam

“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”

— Anaïs Nin (via quotemadness)

(via https://open.spotify.com/track/3ekNuTF3UpOvIZCfiejpnC?si=Qd_5_NhURDm4Jjd44YIO4A)

“It’s better to feel pain than nothing at all”

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Percy preaching

If I keep holding on There's a real possibility, That I'll meet you half way.. I'll be here. Come back. I'll here

quotemadness

May flowers grow in the saddest parts of you.

Zainab Aamir (via oessa)

enfant--terrible

To get food unstuck from a frying pan, just pour water in the pan, and wait. After a while the food loosens on its own. Don’t struggle to heal your wounds. Just pour time into your heart, and wait. When your wounds are ready, they will heal on their own.

Haemin Sunim (via enfant–terrible)

wheresmywerewolf

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u05S9cq2bLY)

Time to put the silicon obsession down Take a look around, find a way in the silence Lie supine away with your back to the ground Dis- and re-connect to the resonance now You were never an island Unique voice among the many in this choir Tuning into each other, lift all higher