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The sound of agony

6/29/2023

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Picture Lake Waco at sunset.
Lake Waco
Heartbreaking is not even in the same universe as what I am feeling. 
I die every moment of every day. 
My body convulses
​and forms a cavity around itself. 

The howling of a thousand wounded animals
echoing out through the night
is a whisper
compared to the wounded animal
within me.

Written ​
August 27, 2022
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At the park with a stranger

6/27/2023

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Picture of the Cameron Park river trail in Waco, Texas.
Cameron Park River Trail Waco, Texas
I wonder what he saw that invited such kindness towards me. 
Was it the exposed wound I wore on my face as masked smile?
Was it the way I sat down under the weight of a broken reality?
Maybe it was my blood shot eyes unable to produce another tear?
Only he knows why. 
All I know is in my drowning a hand plunged into the waters of my grief and held me up to breathe.
A grace.
A gift.
A pure gift.

Written August 11, 2022
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