Fear —
not running-from-bear
but running-from-life
Courage —
not getting-up-the-nerve
but getting-up-every-day
social anxiety
SOCial anxIETY
You can’t spell social anxiety without society.
Internal listening
If you can’t get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud.
Pierced flight
thorns and stings
and those such things
just make stronger
our angel wings
P.S. Thank you to everyone who has written letting me know that Katya Elise Henry got a tattoo of this poem. Honestly, I didn’t know who she was and had to look it up. But that’s pretty cool, and a nice tattoo.
Alone
For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.