About Me

Queer, Latina, bi cultural, Female, writer, poet, wise- -and these are just the things about me I cannot control.

Thursday, August 27, 2020

when I am strong enough

One day,  when I am strong enough I will watch the show about the girl who is raped.

One day when I am strong enough I will watch the show about the girl who kills herself slowly with one addiction or another.

One day when I am strong enough I will read the book about the girl who didn't speak for a year because she didn't know if she could stop the words that wanted to come out.

Today i choose not to fall back in time. I choose to not have nightmares. I choose to remember I have a voice. These works of art were created for people like me,  and still they are to painful to walk through. There's too much history here. I'll go back to writing diaries. It'll feel just like old times. 

Saturday, August 1, 2020

I started taking medication. It's been a couple weeks. It feels lighter. Everything is lighter. I'm putting a puzzle together. that's not a metaphor, it's 1500 pieces and I've had it for years and I'm finally putting it together. I can barely hear her. I don't know what will happen moving forward. I don't know how long this will last. Medication is supposed to take a few weeks to kick in, so this is probably placebo.

There are still things here, they just all feel so much lighter.