Sometime a the thought of being overwhelmingly great scares Us because we think we could screw it up and it feels like fate has once again picked the "wrong" one, the "ugly" one, the

Why Why don't you try? Why don't you try to peel the limitations off? Why don't you try to peel your skin back and dive deep into yourself? Don't Don't you ever doubt your abilities Don't forget that you

I write poems to you everyday In my mind In my text In hopes that you'd decode them In hopes that you'd accept them In hopes that you'll trade me Some of your attention For some of my amateur poetry I

AFTER YOU LEFT I FOUND That my whole world And everything in it Had been reengineered By our time together Into a mine field of reminders RIGGED TO EXPLODE Into burning memories of you By even the mildest

YOU ARE My midnight moon SOME DAYS The undiniable light In my dark nights OTHER DAYS The irritable cause Of my turbulent tides TGR

A faithful shadow Thoughts of you have long bedded me The vaguest reflection of my sentence Betrothed An intangible yet resilient presence of absence Dancing about me every waking hour This hold I cannot

It may look like pride To you The raising of shoulders And all But as what is required to a person Who has Boil beneath her armpits TGR

WHO CAN TOLERATE THE PUTRID ODOR. of one too many decaying cats that were never let out the bag? YOU COULDN'T. WHO CAN ENDURE the desultory monologue of a frantically spun cock and bull story? I COULDN'T.

BETROTHED BEFORE BIRTH IMPOSED AT CONCEPTION SEALED IN WEDLOCK MY MIND YET ANOTHER VICTIM TRAPPED IN AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS UNRELENTING REPROBATE BODY TILL DEATH DO THEM PART TGR

Tell me to stop And I wont breathe Tell me to come and I will sprint I will sprint Like my life depends on it I'm here my limbs in waiting My ears standing still Bug you don't tell me anything! TGR image.jpeg

Women Don't let these Body shamers get to you Don't think for one second That you are not beautiful If you do You'll never feel good enough Let go of all the negativity you Have against your body Never