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Let me dream outside of gravity Somewhere that failure is a foreign word Outside of a world where sidewalk chalk kingdoms disintegrate and roll away Let me hide in my imagination-where paper mache does not wilt in the rain Let me dream in a universe where…

If you have been given a plate full of injustice, use it to grow empathy If you have been heaped upon with pain, use it to grow compassion If you have been drowned in reasons to fear, use it to grow courage What we are given is often unfair, but not one of

The rain taps on my window like a shy visitor With groceries and fresh flowers She is dropping by to remind me that there is something out there- More than I think there is She asks me to believe that it's safe for me Outside the shelter I crafted for mys…

Is there a word for one step further than fear?

I've collected my tears today And given each of them a name Loneliness Regret Longing Confusion Despair And when the dusk is purple, I will carry a bucket to mountain peaks And pour them out They'll travel abandoned roads into a ghost town Down into the s…

It's strange and extraordinary To stand here looking over the waterfall Closer to the end sooner than I expected Feeling the threat of death spray my face But from way up high Where the end of me is close I can see a little farther than everyone else What…

There is a single firefly flashing in the field tonight Blinking slow and steady, watching for an answer back He is up high now, waiting for a flash from someone out there Hoping to see his family's constellation I know that feeling well Standing alone in…

Photo By Jacqueline Day There are holes in my sides Where the blood came through Train tracks on my chest A foot long storyline you can read Across my body from left to right Like an arrow pointing I was back there but I have suffered much And I am all the

Winter air holds a holy silence It's this silence that locates us There is no answer from the mocking jay The lake is frozen over -- The trees are sleeping, no kindling to be gathered All we have is what we have built when the days were long And they have…

Photo By: The Dwyers The universe in me rages and roars It rises and falls There isn't a big enough castle to shatter with my voice I remember being wheeled in like a package on a forklift I remember wearing a paper gown that blew hot air Like an arcade h…

Photo By: Jacqueline Day When Cancer found me, He pulled me by the wrist up high where the air is thin.

Photo by: Jacqueline Day We don't get to choose in this life whether or not we suffer But we do get to choose what we are willing to suffer for We can suffer the darkness of a closed heart Or from the wounds welcomed with an open heart The wounds of one t…

Photo by: Davy Kesey I'm a little less human than I was before Cut apart like a doll and sewn back together With cursive stitches They borrow my blood And put it in a category It's a passionate burgundy But it's still in the vial And I am still sitting he…

Photo by Abbey James What a wild story this is When cancer came to destroy me But instead, it gifted me with something Irreplaceable, Irreversible I should have been shattered So why do I feel myself becoming invincible?

Photo by: The Dwyers I'm sitting on white paper again My blood is in a clear bottle with a blue top It should be whizzing about inside me through loops and turns But it's standing still, exactly as it shouldn't be I'm a little less human than I was before…

Photo by: The Dwyers Nothing much has changed Since I have been running from the sun Many nights of rest I've missed By chasing the moon around the planet Afraid that the sun will see and speak the truth about me So I swim as fast as I can Upstream through

Photo By: The Dwyers Distance Match my breathing to your breathing So I feel just what you're feeling I can't put out the fire But I'll stay with you While the edges of the night grind against your temples There's distance in your eyes that I cannot close…

Photo By: The Dwyers A place called here, is somewhere I don’t know very well.

Photo by The Dwyers If I was to die It would be with the reflection of the mountains in my eyes I would die with sun-pink cheeks And a mouth full of blackberries I want to die while my heart is still a greenhouse for hope All my wild dreams as seedlings in

Photo by The Dwyers Turns out "why?"