My Intermediate Thoughts

i give up hiding human emotion. i fucking miss you. 05.24.89

[leonardospoetry]

This poem was inspired by two suggestions people sent me, "bottled up emotions" and "process to healing". I decided to write just one for both. I see it as a little story of redemption.

[leonardospoetry]

love this little love poem

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from “Grief Work”, Postcolonial Love Poem

[remanence-of-love]

[leonardospoetry]

Is it all darkness playing with fire? 

Is everyone gods pretending to be people? 

Is every mystery just leading to another mystery?

[heavyrain-dc]

“Success is not final, failure is not final. It is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

[heavyrain-dc]

“In the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”

— Ally Condie

[heavyrain-dc]

“I’m not everything I want to be but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning”

— Charlotte Erikkson

[heavyrain-dc]

“If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.”

— Tony Gaskins

[leonardospoetry]

death of innocence

[shisasan]

𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟹, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟽 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: August 3. Once more I screamed at the top of my voice into the world. END ID]

[heavyrain-dc]

“Accept how you feel but don’t let feelings rule you. You are in control. You are not their slave.”

— Unknown

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

[heavyrain-dc]

“Today I forgive myself. Not just once. Again, and again, and again. As many times as it takes to find peace.”

— Unknown

[heavyrain-dc]

“Promise me not to hide yourself when you’re in pain, it’s unfair that we laughed together but you cried alone”

— Unknown

[mucknagabe]

[everythingfox]

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