Sometimes you can find yourself in a position filled with pain. That pain is temporary, it comes and it goes, and it can make you sick with it, but it comes and it goes. There’s a strange weight held onto people that makes them think they cannot comprehend, it makes them not want to accept,Continue reading “The Self Soother”
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In Another Dimension
I see myself being a little girl, from 5 and on, with my dad, paddling out into the waves and he’s teaching me how to surf. I see us, like two water babies, and I’m learning skills I wish I only learned from him. I’ve been watching a lot of surfer movies lately. Classics andContinue reading “In Another Dimension”
An Ode To My Beloved
You were never ordinary and you know that… I can still feel the way the universe tilted, An inevitable force that brought us together, Puzzle pieces finding their placements, Our shadows and lights guiding the way, And we hold tight to each other, Because our souls allow no separation.
let it last
simulative fingers feel pain, as you hear your own heart beat, as you imagine crawling… climbing up and out. you stop. you look down at your own hands as they hold each other, wrapping each other, soothing each other, as if your knuckles would have been bleeding. you sit. what an imaginative world we play.Continue reading “let it last”
the end that meets a beginning
it’s the funny sound that the fan makes when you’re right below it. a sweet pitched twitch that lets you hear maneuver. that quiet reminder you’re only a vibration with electric matter. you. are. electric, baby. and i want to give you my plug.
Ciara Ashley Johnson 