Gigi Brumit

writing, poetry, and other musings

[julienbakr]

harold, they’re lesbians

people are gay, steven 

i’m a lesbian, carl 

don’t be a transphobe, chad 

we support the gays, david 

i’m not jealous, flavio. i’m gay

[hidingoutbackstage]

this collection of images has an energy to rival god

[lil-tumbles]

What’s God?

[justnick612-deactivated20210723]

@dragonindigo245 lmao

[cheese-greater-official]

Im laughing my head of omg

[gigibrumit]

My circumstances do not define me,

I will not permit it,

I cannot give them the power.

I want nothing more than to be free

Of all these labels.

I refuse to be locked in a tower,

A prison that binds me in fear.

“You’re not good enough,” they say.

And then they expect me to cower,

To fail by default of never trying; to retreat.

I will rise up, I will not be held back.

The whispers in my ear,

“You’re not strong enough to flee.” 

Oh, but I am. 

I will fly away, free;

An unfettered bird in the sky

As the wind blows in my face,

I will overcome.

My fears below 

And my possibilities ahead.

I am free, 

Just let me be.

.

@GigiBrumit

[gigibrumit]

[gigibrumit]

She's watered the earth 

Like a garden

With pieces of her heart.

Her tears, her love, her pain, her joy

Seep into the earth, the ground.

Scattered from east to west,

Here and there. 

She's been everywhere so fully,

She's not fully here.

@GigiBrumit

[gigibrumit]

The sound of two people's pain

Colliding at the speed

Of our harmonizing heartbeats,

The rhythm of your breath

Up and down, in and out.

I feel it on my chest,

Your breath on my neck.

Intimacy.

Naked and exposed,

But covered by

The emotions rushing

Through our veins.

Authenticity shattered

By the sun's rising.

For the light exposes

What the darkness hides,

The naked truth.

I don't think you were

Ever meant to be mine

We were just

Two broken people

Who found solace

In the echoes

of the other's misery.

- Gigi Brumit

[gigibrumit]

Out of all the memories I have made

A million faces on which my eyes have laid

The thousands of places my feet have wandered

And the hundred more I have pondered

Out of all the steps my feet have taken

And the many shoes I've learned to fill

Through the impossible that has left me daunted

You have left me forever haunted

Eternally etched into my memory.

@GigiBrumit

[gigibrumit]

Those dark skies

The clouds on the rise

The sparrow has no path to fly

A picture of what life is like

Filled with all those lies

That we are no more than a prize

To win, to placate, to bridle

No more than an idol,

Expected to sit quietly

And play the part of

The meek and the mild

Our anger and emotions

Are to be contained

Any mutter of frustration

Of the ceiling that we hit

When we advance

Or take a chance

Is said to be a wave

Of senseless emotion.

Boxed in, contained like Pandora

But only that which is feared is bridled.

And we are on the path to freedom

Freedom from those reins,

Freedom from these restraints.

Freedom.

Like floodwaters, we will rise

Like the ocean tide,

Inevitable, predictable

but yet somehow still a surprise.

Those dark skies

Are becoming clearer

Dark looming clouds are breaking

With the light of equality

Where we can soar

With no fear of being fettered

Because we are not birds of a feather.

We are a force with which

We dare you to reckon.

@GigiBrumit

[gigibrumit]

Catch the memory 

Before it fades,

Hold it close 

Before it slips

Through your loose grip.

Knuckles white,

Though all in vain

As it whisps like smoke

Through your fist,

Gripped with fear.

The past is lost,

The present- fearful failure.

The future taunts

And dances just out of reach. 

Time has left you

Lonely. Solely

With your painful reality.

@GigiBrumit

[gigibrumit]

Well watered,

Shallowly sprouted.

Stretching everywhere,

Planting nowhere.

         .

@GigiBrumit

[gigibrumit]

Finally Free

For a moment,

A small fragment of time

Standing still

While breathing it in

When you were still mine

And the sun did shine

Staring at your smile lines

Drawing me in with a chill

Travelling down my spine

That was the moment

I felt our love was dying

That was the moment I knew

You weren't meant to be mine

That was the moment I realized

I am worthy of so much more

That was the moment

I was finally free

Of the warped reality

Created and crafted by your

Tangling web of lies

That was the moment

I was free of you.

That was the moment

I learned to fight for myself

That was the moment

My life began.

Your faulty love

Taught me how to love myself

Your toxicity awoke in me

The power to be me

Your attempts to break me

Only strengthened my will power

Keeping me down

Only empowered me more

So go ahead

I dare you

Watch me soar

Hear me roar

The chains you kept me in

Became my armor

I took your power

Now it's mine

And it is time

For me to be

Finally free

Of you.

-Gigi

[gigibrumit]

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine

Just me and my thoughts

My dreams and my schemes

Just me and the leaves

Underneath this sprawling tree

Just me and my thoughts

Sunshine and those tall pines

Reality stands still like a time stamp on a polaroid

As have my dreams, so it seems

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine

-Gigi

[gigibrumit]

You took my breath away

You took my breath away

Along with my sense of self,

My pride, and my confidence.

You stole my breath away.

You took the air from my lungs

And left me gasping,

Drowned me

In all the tears

I can't cry.

You stole my breath away.

Thief.

-Gigi

[gigibrumit]

Dreaming to Survive

To go places

To escape

To plan possibilities

Uncertain

Physically in the present

But the mind

Is anywhere but here

Always three steps ahead

Some call it dreaming,

I call it surviving.

- Gigi

[gigibrumit]

Anxiety Attacks

Gripped me from the inside

Clawing, tearing up

The halls of my heart

To shreds.

I try to run

But every move I make

Tightens its deathly grip

On my lungs.

Claws sinking deeper

Every chance it gets

Pain pours through my blood

That runs down my heart

Fear seeps out

Through my

Shallow,

Short

Breaths

- Gigi

[kirianthedivorce]

Listen I would die for Jameela Jamil

[kirianthedivorce]

I just… love her… so much we don’t deserve her

[kirianthedivorce]

When you’ve got low self esteem and are having a bad day

[kirianthedivorce]

Important update:

[kirianthedivorce]

Another update:

[heretic-madlad]

Warrior energy

[gigibrumit]

What a fucking queen! 👑🖤

[gigibrumit]

The flicker of the strings of lights

The understudy to the sunset

Rarely themselves the spotlight

Unnoticed by those passing by

The twinkling strings of lights

The flicker of the strings of lights

Barely brightening the street

Beneath their soft glow

Dancing off the window panes

Illuminating the shadows below

The twinkling strings of lights

The flicker of the strings of lights

Light so subtle and so pure

Each one fueled by the hopes of those

Who marvel at the magic

The twinkling strings of lights

-Gigi Brumit

[gigibrumit]

Time

You feel familiar,

As if I've known you once before,

Or maybe all along.

A whisper, a remnant of the past

Colliding with the present.

Time.

A conundrum. Confusing. Complex.

The past and the future merge together

To create the present,

And my present is you.

But somehow you fill my past;

Though there is no evidence of you,

No memories to be found.

Now that I've met you,

It's as if it's only ever been you.

Are you sure we haven't met before?

I feel like I know you from somewhere.

Time is a funny thing.

-Gigi Brumit