Category: life

• Regret

  “Do you regret marrying Dad”I ventureWondering if she knowsWhy I ask “No, I don’t regret it” There is a pregnant pauseA naked silence “Why not?”I ask, undeterred “I don’t believe in the word regret” she offers Meanwhile,My brain is busy decodingwhat she’s saying “It doesn’t matter what you believe, but the wordexists mom”I mutter in […]

  meowmeowproject

  January 14, 2022

  acceptance, communication, dementia, Family, Family dynamics, Grief, Healing, Home, Imagination, life, Love, Marriage, memories, mindfulness, mother and child relationship, self-knowledge

• Mangoes

  Ripe with aMalfeasanceThat threatensTo engulf meWhole Round, fulland yellowWith that lingeringScentAn inviting sweetnessTo biteInto juicy flesh You’d buy them for meAnd I’d reject them Only to takethem homeReluctantly,If only to stopYou from eatingThemand hurtingYourself Your colonCan’t take itThe two operationsThe growing cancerpushing intoYour peritoneum When you eat mangoesyour intestines get blockedAnd your pain escalates The […]

  meowmeowproject

  December 26, 2021

  acceptance, anger, cancer, communication, dementia, Family, Family dynamics, Healing, Home, life, memories, mindfulness, mother and child relationship, Psychology, Relationship, self-knowledge

• The Soul Would Have No Rainbow, Had The Eyes No Tears

  This Christmas, I am gifting myself the gift of grief. I wrote a song on this particular theme because I’m so sick and tired of all the positive messaging I’m constantly bombarded with. Everywhere… Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn … like… highlight reel allergy much. I’m not a cynic, but can I just get an honest (though […]

  meowmeowproject

  December 26, 2021

  abuse, anger, communication, domestic violence, Grief, Home, inconvenient truths, life, Love, Marriage, mindfulness, music, Relationship, self-knowledge, soul, speaking up