sometimesihatemycat

Since when
Did I let men
Become
The voices in
My brain
Again
I am shamed
I have betrayed
Myself
Blocked my own
Way
Within
So it is time
Once more to see
Beneath
This skull
And meaty memory
What remains
Only revealed
If I can
Brave
A new lobotomy

-me?

Photography: Blood by laura-makabresku on deviantart.com

~ by April on April 11, 2019.

Posted in Death, Family, God, Humanity, Identity, Loss, Love, Marriage, Poetry, Women's Issues, Women's Rights
Tags: Anatta, Anicca, Betrayal, Big Other, Blood, Brain, confidence, Dukkha, Identity, Lobotomy, meditation, Poetry, Self, shame, Speak, The Big Other, Voice, voices