A truth you did not want to know can rot & grow mold in the pit of your stomach, can sour every taste you’ve ever had, can cast a stench so bad you forget you’ve ever known a sweet thing.
Ximena Ahuactzin Floreshat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
When your body takes up more room than your voice you are always the target of well-aimed rumors
Ximena Ahuactzin Floreshat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
But I don’t know how to tell Mami that this year,
it’s not about feeling unready,
it’s about knowing that this doubt has already been confirmed.
Ximena Ahuactzin Floreshat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
Sometimes it feels
all I’m worth is under my skirt
and not between my ears.
Ximena Ahuactzin Floreshat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
Sometimes I feel
my life would be easier
if I didn’t feel like such a debt
to a God
that don’t really seem
to be out here checking for me.
Ximena Ahuactzin Floreshat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
I feel too small for all that’s inside me. I want to break myself open like an egg smacked hard against an edge.
Ximena Ahuactzin Floreshat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
reputations last longer than the time it takes to make them.
Ximena Ahuactzin Floreshat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
Every now and then, I dress my thoughts in the clothing of a poem. Try to figure out if my world changes once I set down these words.
Ximena Ahuactzin Floreshat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
This was the first time someone gave me a place to collect my thoughts. In some ways, it seemed like he was saying that my thoughts were important. From that day forward I’ve written every single day. Sometimes it seems like writing is the only way I keep from hurting.
Ximena Ahuactzin Floreshat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
what’s the point of God giving me life
if I can’t live it as my own?
Why does listening to his commandments
mean I need to shut down my own voice?
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