Caged Wings, Open Sky
Table of Contents
1 2 3 4 5. Ashes 6 7. Just a Mobile 8. The Flood 9. Waiting 10. My SIlence 11. In A Second 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. Smoke Signals 21 22 23. 082121-0521 24. 082121-0541 25. 26. 110605 27. The Weight of It 28. The Art of Disappearing 29. Far Shore 30. Currents Against Me 31. Into the Pit 32. 042722-0630 33. 110815 34. 082121-0513 35. 080222-0145 36. 082121-0430-2 37. Pieces of Me 38. 121421-1508 39. Dreaming 40. Beautiful 41. 012716 42. 120915 43. 111615 44. 111715 45. 111815 46. 112215 47. 112315 48. 122815 49. Images 50. Eulogy for Myself50. Eulogy for Myself
I was not a bad person.
I was only lost
in a room I built from fear,
each wall another apology
I didn’t owe.
I used to mistake anger for breathing—
each exhale a defense,
each inhale a wound reopened.
I called it survival.
And maybe it was.
There was a version of me
who kept trying to be smaller,
folding themselves like paper,
hoping the world
would stop cutting at the edges.
They were not cruel.
They were only tired.
Today I bury that self
not out of shame
but gratitude.
They carried me through storms
I could not name.
They held my shaking hands
when no one else did.
So I speak now—
not as a mourner,
but as a witness.
Thank you
for breaking,
for holding,
for becoming the ground
I can finally stand on.
I am not you anymore,
but I am because of you.
Rest.
I’ll take it from here.
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You have been so busy. Wow.
It took me most of the day to get these all put in and presented into the collected the way that I wanted them. But they are poems that I have written over years. I've just decided that I wanted to give them a place to exist rather then just hiding in the corners of my computer or on scraps of paper in my desk!