Category: Childhood trauma

• Daenerys

  I know now whyshe burned cities downI feel the fireof her dragons breathing downon me The righteous angerthat was never seenheard or feltthat was dismissedby a thousandmenand the lies ofmyths and traditions She grazed it downto the groundand burned everythingsymbolizing thosechains Born in the fireCleansed by her angerShe finds new life in the ashes

  November 13, 2021

  abuse, anger, Approval, Childhood trauma, Game of Thrones, Gender roles, Home, self-knowledge, soul, Time

• Drive My Car

  I went to The Projector on Tuesday this week for the 7:30pm screening of “Drive My Car” which won “Best Screenplay” in the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. It is a movie adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story of the same title. (SPOILER ALERT: important plot points will be revealed, so please do not continue reading […]

  September 24, 2021

  Childhood trauma, mindfulness, Psychology, Quiet, Relationship, self-knowledge, soul, Time

• Scorpio Revisits The Mirror

  Boxed in a living, brooding blackHot, crackling fury enraged in the vacuumI crave, I thirst,I am on my knees but Your words break melikeshattered glassand the screaming hammeragainst the door A child, blithelyBouncing, up and downUp and downon the mattress.Even as the worldCrumbles and implodes in the universe ofHer heart and The door is markedWith […]

  August 4, 2021

  abuse, Childhood trauma, domestic violence, Healing, Imagination, Morality, Psychology