2024: Seas of Self

Swimming, with an attempt to reflect. A short poem to go with each moment. An Ocean of Emotion and a Sea of Self.

Franken girl made up of muppet parts and heart rought together to fool no one but herself

January

letting my sun rise, letting my moon change, and lining better the blues

February

do you shed your skin because you must or because the moon told you to

March

and the light won’t fade and i won’t cry and the planets won’t know and the world will turn and i will change and the sky will dance with it

April

May

and knowing it’s all stars and ashes and how to be a body condemned to life

and then what am i to be without letting myself dream?

June

and apologies are empty without the chime of i forgive, and i don’t

July

and words and places and bodies and songs and apologies and pictures and luck and paper and dreams and eyes

August

אֱמֶת - and the truth cannot pretend and neither can i

September

promises, kept.

October

stuck, and no worse off than i was before

November

and here i am

December

2020-2022

2023

nostalgia in real time

2024

seas of self

2025

its not easy being green

2026

in progess

Rae Vehred