poetryonwordpress – Musings By Barbara

June 7, 2019

Bodies of Isolated Water

©️ 2019 It is strange, how we are able to transfer light into each other with a smile and then create distance in ourselves that keeps us from coming close. We illuminate our souls to one another and yet our guards refuse to let the other bring to light our vulnerable parts. We build a…

Boxed Souls

©️ 2019 — I have never in my life felt like I fit in, for my being is like water, finding the shape of conformity only to quickly wash it off. See, once there is a label placed above my head, I quickly find a way to rise above it and destroy it because it…

Skin on Skin

Face down, on my bed, with no comfort but the gust of wind from my ceiling fan,the hurt reminds me thatmy greatest friendsare the tearsrunning marathonsdown my face — until your handsrest upon my back;skin on skin, this paingrows thinand I come backinto my heartas the gentle in your handswash the sadness clinging to my skin;oh how you are my sweetestutopian dream.…