The Un-silent Woman

If you were an element of Earth I’d deem you to be water It's in the way your love runs deep Crashing ashore Breaking down levees of trauma   And watering where it hurts The way your love seeps into the narrow pathways like rivers Finding its way upstream   Defying the odds and gravity Just to be able to say you tried You find reason to love even when you’ve been polluted Nourishing the secretive roots of beings that nobody else sees You feed...   Darling, you satisfy their thirst You are more than enough   Lovers go into dehydration on the withdrawal of your supply of love You’re the type of love one only experiences once in a lifetime And I love how you transform yourself How you’ve learned to expand yourself and your love to be as wide as the ocean But also how to withhold from overflowing when one is undeserving Still leaving behind some love to nourish them in your absence Of all the colors you could be You are Blue.   the.color.i.am~ Brittany K.W., 10/20/2020 In his book The

You were told you had everything you needed within Power Ability Resilience Light Purpose But somehow you keep falling short when it comes to love You couldn’t stitch them back together Put all the broken pieces in their place Rearrange things to make space... For you Ego. Ego will have you thinking you’re God Have you thinking you can fix humans Because you can’t fathom meeting them where they stand Your role is to love them. As they are. Support them as they heal their own scars. But you don’t like this deck of cards.   You always say “that’s not in the job description” So why are you trying to play a role beyond your position? aint.no.fixing. ~Brittany K.W., 10/13/2020 Recently I was conversing with one of my sister friends about our experiences with love in adulthood, and if I could sum it up, it's highly ghetto. Her and I have always had a soul connection, but the similarities in the complexity of our experiences with love is scary. If you asked us two weeks ago, we'd tell