A Collection of Short Writings

A series of short writings.

The Distance 

As minute ticks by and days pass, I feel the distance, the shift in the energy. 

Once the centre of your world, now everything feels slightly off. 

Your attention always seems to be elsewhere these days. Plans made and not expressed, have I just become an afterthought? 

When do we genuinely connect? 

When do our souls intertwine in heartfelt conversations and intimate moments? 

How I long for the way it used to be. When I was the centre of your world and you, mine. 

Like Snakes

I have been a hundred different versions of myself in this lifetime. Like a snake, I continue to shed. 

These sheds are necessary, for I am not who people want me to be nor am I the things they have said about me. 

I am the snake. I am forever changing, forever becoming. 

The girl you once knew is dead. The versions of me you wanted or even needed me to be is not an accurate picture of who I AM. 

And so I shed the illusions. I am the mirror reflecting back to you the things you love and hate about yourself and you do the same for me. It is an invitation to step up to the window and see the possibilities within our own healing. 

This body 

This body, as fragile as it may currently be, is strong beyond compare.

It has carried me through some of the darkest of places and times.

I haven’t always been kind to it, in fact there were times I abused it so I could attain some level of control amidst the chaos of life.

These days, I see her so differently.

A beautiful, scarred vessel to cherish and care for.

One to restore not to its former glory but to something better, more beautiful than before. 

The Abyss

What is the Abyss? I believe it’s a place that resides within each of us. A place of unspoken thoughts and feelings. The darkness we find ourselves sometimes swirling around in. 

The questions punching at our subconscious, begging to be given voice, to permeate the space. 

It is the shadows within that we are being beckoned to face and hold space for. 

To acknowledge the duality within. 

The light, the dark. The triggers, the activation. 

Still the question hangs in the silence. 

Will we face the shadows within or will they continue to gnaw at the back of our mind?

Be Like Jesus

"Be like Jesus", they told me.

And so I was.

While you were anything but.