This heartfelt raw contemporary poetry covers the arch of leaving a relationship and beginning to rebuild, addressing a sudden death, parenting through difficult times, and finding one's voice and strength again. Follow the powerful journey through the darkening, the stumbling, and the dawning of a soul.
"The heavens need to pour for a while to release the sorrow, the pain, the afflicted.
Stand under them and drown in the drops, wishing for them to grow larger.
Understanding that the linings come in all colors, every rainbow starts with a cloud."
The voices that shape us -cultural pressures, lessons of our upbringing, toxic relationships - play in our heads of our unworthiness, our imperfections, and our limitations. As we each struggle through levels of misuse and abuse, disappointments in life, adventures in parenting and caregiving, health complications and deaths, we often feel alone.
You are not alone. You are seen.
May these musings help in your own stumbling towards dawn.