Lauren Greenslet
Staying
You arrived at the perfectly wrong time
When all the tears were just beginning to dry up
When the people who needed to leave left
You arrived but stayed
And of course
You cared.
Grounded
When you’re feet are firmly planted, she began
You will feel it in your toes
It’ll be anchoring and attached
That feeling will make its way up your leg, to your hip, all the way to your rib cage
Your rib cage will rattle a thousand times to remind you that nothing will come to you still
Soon enough, it will all drift to your shoulders
That weighted feeling is supposed to be there, darling
It has you hold all the voices, thoughts, and bodies that have come before you
Don’t fret, it will lift
You will be light again
The light in me died
It was blown out
It was strangled
It was carefully picked apart
It was drowned
It was shot down
It was yelled at
It was critiqued
It was molded
It was
- Gone But Not Forgotten
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