Letting Go - [Poerty]

08/13/22 • 1 min

TheWanderingPaddy

Letting go

Tonight I don’t want to be strong,

I want to be soft and vulnerable and just want to be held,

strong and tight in a way I know I won’t break, because you won’t hurt me.

I want to be saved and I don’t want to feel ashamed

or feel less of a strong woman for wanting so.

I don’t want to be Wonder Woman tonight,

running a house, single mum, working full time.

No. Tonight I want to be just a girl, no thoughts, no responsibilities.

I want to forget that I am 40 years old, divorced and lonely.

I want to be okay with being fiercely independent and still saying “I miss you”.

I want to melt in your arms and just breathe,

breathe until my heart slows down, as it does when I feel safe.

Tonight, I want to return to softness and love and warm feelings,

I want to ditch any logic.

Can we do that?

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Letting go

Tonight I don’t want to be strong,

I want to be soft and vulnerable and just want to be held,

strong and tight in a way I know I won’t break, because you won’t hurt me.

I want to be saved and I don’t want to feel ashamed

or feel less of a strong woman for wanting so.

I don’t want to be Wonder Woman tonight,

running a house, single mum, working full time.

No. Tonight I want to be just a girl, no thoughts, no responsibilities.

I want to forget that I am 40 years old, divorced and lonely.

I want to be okay with being fiercely independent and still saying “I miss you”.

I want to melt in your arms and just breathe,

breathe until my heart slows down, as it does when I feel safe.

Tonight, I want to return to softness and love and warm feelings,

I want to ditch any logic.

Can we do that?

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Butterfly [Poetry on Domestic Voilence Survivors]

Someone made you feel so small,

They stole your voice away. Made you sorry for being you.

Made you feel that the black eyes and purple evidence of pain that mark you,

are all your fault.

All your fault.

You were the one that made them hit you, hurt you, beat you black and blue, they say.

They put their virulent-veined faces too close to yours and screamed until spit splashed your face.

The late-night tears and heart cries at the doors of rooms you were locked out of,

tumbling tears puddled on the porcelain tile, making the floor wet with misery and your multiplied loss of dignity.

First, they take away your you-ness, then they strip you of your family and friends,

under the umbrella of wanting you all to themselves.

But there is escape, there is a way back to beautiful you.

to freedom. . . freedom from fear and feeling so low

and the soul-shaking knowledge that someone so hateful would hurt you,

just for being you.

Fly butterfly, fly now. Just as soon as you can.

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Two Little Shadows - [Poetry]

I saw a young mother

With eyes full of laughter

And two little shadows

Came following after.

Wherever she moved,

They were always right there

Holding onto her skirts,

Hanging onto her chair.

Before her, behind her—

An adhesive pair.

“Don't you ever get weary

As, day after day,

your two little tagalongs

Get in your way?”

She smiled as she shook

Her pretty young head,

And I'll always remember

The words that she said.

“It's good to have shadows

That run when you run,

That laugh when you're happy

And hum when you hum—

For you only have shadows

When your life's filled with sun.”

Two Little Shadows

Author Unknown

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