Category: Journey of Self

The Heart Chamber

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I want to keep my inner temple door open
I want to access its halls
Its richness and warmth
Its flickering torches
Its cool wellspring whispering soft and constant reminders
That I am connected to the lifeblood of all things
This is where my alchemical magic lives
Where all versions of myself dance to the rhythm of starlight and moonsong
In this sacred place I AM
In this safest place I CAN BE
I want for nothing
I lack nothing
I am the entanglement of sunshine and shadow
I am perfect harmony
I am radiant beauty as I exalt my truest self in this place where only divinity touches
The breath guides me here, and will return me again
When I have need to touch love

-gws
@wordswishesandwisdom

The Heart Chamber read by GWS #poetry #poetrytok #wordswishesandwisdom #poem #witchtok #writer #poet

♬ original sound – GWS

The Next Right Choice

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All we can do is make the next right choice

Sometimes, that choice is easy

Sometimes it is the hardest thing you can do

What do you do when you get to the end of the map

Where do you go when you can’t go back

And forward is so uncertain

You know there is something beyond

But you don’t know what it looks like

How hard it’s going to be

Because there’s no way it can be easy

The unknown is rarely easy

-gws

@wordswishesandwisdom

The Next Right Choice written and read by GWS #wordswishesandwisdom #poetry #poetrytok #poem #poet #poetsoftiktok #poetryreading #writer #recovery

♬ original sound – GWS

Rage

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Rage is dark rust red like clotted blood

Balled fists and hot tears

White hot like molten iron

Sharp and vicious as a cooled blade

Shrill keening and worn out sobs

Forged into quiet, constantly simmering fury

Long, silent, anguished screams into pillows

And inside lonely vehicles at 60 miles per hour

With the music turned up loud to drown out the ragged

Sound shaking free of its mooring

Now a million dancing embers

Just waiting for the right bluster to ignite again

-gws

@wordswishesandwisdom

Rage read by GWS. #poetry #poetrytok #wordswishesandwisdom #writer #poet #poem #poetryreading

♬ original sound – GWS

Space Between

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Do I exist in the space between your thoughts

Am I squeezed in as an annotation to your chaos

Do I fit in the emptiness between your heartbeats

Or the space between your breaths

Am I shoved into the shadowed alcoves of your mind

All I know is it’s dark and apocalyptic here

Where ever here is

-gws

@wordswishesandwisdom

The Space Between written and read by GWS #wordswishesandwisdom #poetry #poetrytok #poem #poet #poetsoftiktok #poetryreading #writer

♬ Authority (Epic Background Music) – Fearless Motivation Instrumentals

Silenced

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Words stolen from my throat before my mouth gives them shape and purpose

Volumptous thoughts sucked dry of all of their sweet volume like withered grapes on the vine

Black storm clouds ripple my calm waters, sending me reeling with frustration

Being asked to be less

Say less

Need less

Take less space

I am twisted, muted, and bound inside myself

Trying to survive loving you

With your barbed wire, landmines, arrows, blades, and poisons

Maybe one day you’ll stop listening to your own voice long enough to hear mine

Or all you will hear is the silence that signifies my absence

-gws

@wordswishesandwisdom

Silenced written and read by GWS #wordswishesandwisdom #poetry #poetrytok #poem #poet #poetsoftiktok #poetryreading #writer

♬ Melancholy – Alexey Kosenko & KoSSen

Wildness

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Run unabashed though the tall grass

The wind tossing your wild hair in all directions

And brambles tearing at your hems

Laugh from deep in your belly

With your mouth wide open

And your head thrown back

Let starlight be the catchlights of your eyes

While the moon kisses your skin with dew

And soft, turned soil the carpet under your feet

Rage like a bolt of lightening from a black sky

And let your fury be quenched in the soft, summer rain of your tears

Love so deeply and completely that fingerprints are left on your soul

Dance to the drumbeat of your heart

Sing the song you have been carrying within you your whole life

And don’t give a single damn who hears you

Write your story with its angsty-teen-superhero, rom-com, horror film moments,

Coming of ages and chapter endings

Paint your canvas in all the vivid colors of your joy

And all of the pastels of your sorrows

Close your eyes and hum your gratitude for being who you are

And exactly who you are supposed to be

-gws

@wordswishesandwisdom

Wildness – Be unapologetically who you are.#poetry #poetrytok #wordswishesandwisdom #writer #poet

♬ original sound – GWS

I Statements

An “I-statement” focuses on your own feelings and experiences. It does not focus on your perspective of what the other person has done or failed to do.

Office of the Boston University Ombuds

I am human

  • a woman
  • a daughter
  • a wife
  • a mother
  • a lover
  • a caregiver
  • a nurturer
  • a provider

I am exhausted

  • hurt
  • angry
  • uncomfortable
  • scared
  • doing my best

I have a right to say no

  • to dislike something
  • to ask for what I want or need
  • to not be diminished or dismissed
  • to not be belittled
  • to rest when I need to
  • to prioritize myself
  • to have and respectfully express my own feelings out loud
  • to no be held accountable for offenses committed by others

I am not harming others when I am being my authentic self

  • not diminishing others when I speak my truth
  • not taking from others when I give to myself
  • not dishonoring others when I honor myself

I am an ally not an enemy

  • a partner not a villain
  • a friend not a foe
  • a person not an emotional punching bag

I do not want to be a vessel for holding pain that is not my own

  • a stand-in or effigy
  • punished for past wrongs
  • held responsible for things I didn’t actually do

I need to be treated respectfully

  • spoken to respectfully
  • listened to respectfully
  • touched respectfully
  • seen as I am, and not as I’m imagined to be

-gws

@wordswishesandwisdom

I Statements read by -gws #poetry #poetrytok #wordswishesandwisdom #IStatements #personaltruth #writer #poet

♬ original sound – GWS

When I Feel Small

When I feel small and vulnerable, I turn to that which is wondrous and vast, and remember I am Her daughter and in Her care.

-gws

@wordswishesandwisdom

When I Feel Small written and read by GWS #wordswishesandwisdom #poetry #poetrytok #poem #poet #poetsoftiktok #poetryreading #writer

♬ In The Forest (Acoustic Indie No Copyright) – Instrumental – Lesfm & Olexy