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Do you know how many years it took me to realize that? Eight. Eight years to break the narratives I’d been raised to believe about my body, and about a man’s right to it in marriage. Nearly three thousand days of my life I spent listening to all the reasons why I should give him…
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And I will mourn Until wives are no longer raped in their marital bed Until women are no longer accosted on the streets and forced into dark alleys Until girls are no longer sexualized by the men they should trust Until no child is forced to witness the assault of their mother by their fathers…
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Firstborn
Ancient Archetypes, Betrayal and Consequence, Biblical Imagery, Christianity, Cosmic Justice, Creation and Fall, Dark Poetry, Defiance, Divine Feminine, Divine Punishment, Epic Poetry, Eternal Separation, Fallen Angel, Feminine Archetypes, Firstborn Daughter, Forbidden Love, Lilith, Lucifer, Mystical Poetry, Mythological Poetry, Mythological Retellings, Narrative Poetry, Poetry about Love and Loss, Poetry about Spirituality, Power and Rebirth, Redemption and Rise, Spirituality and Sin, The Morning StarShe came on a cloud, on her breath and his tongue. She came with the promise Perfectly imperfect, in their image she was born And in their love they didn’t leave her to roam her world alone Perfectly imperfect they walked together, made in their love Until the Morning Star rose, the question seeking And…
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This is a journey of remembering, of locating my fractured pieces, finding their empty spaces within, and erecting a monument. A time post marking the before and after.