Category: vulnerable

• When She Goes

  When she goesIn her blue dressAnd pearls What will I do? When they send herInto the fireThe last I will see Of her How will I move? She’s all I can seeIn the ocean of my mindHer greyed hairHer drooping eyesHer tiredness Yet stronger stillIs her presence in meThe woman I knew30 years ago The…

  meowmeowproject

  March 20, 2023

  acceptance, Approval, art therapy, communication, crafts, emotional processing, Family, Family dynamics, finding your own voice, Grief, Healing, life, Love, Relationship, self-knowledge, vulnerable

  art therapy, authenticity, Death, emotional processing, Family of Origin, Letting go, loneliness, Love, Relationship, relationships, sadness, vulnerability

• My Favorite Hymn

  A reflection on my favourite hymn

  meowmeowproject

  May 28, 2022

  christianity, Healing, life, religion, self-knowledge, soul, vulnerable

• Time Underwater

  I wish we had more time together Things would look so different underwaterWhen you consider all the waysThis tale could unfurl Can you imagine a different world? One structured byThe raw materialsOf hope, love and truthWhere people can see Beyond their fears Where things unsaid aren’tMade to degradeWhere words and their shadesDon’t obscure but create…

  meowmeowproject

  February 14, 2022

  acceptance, Gender roles, life, Love, Quiet, Relationship, self-knowledge, vulnerable

  allegory, identity, Intimacy, Love, perception, Psychology, Relationship

• Who Are You?

  This poem is about my father who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2015. He died within 6 weeks of his diagnosis. After announcing his condition through email, he refused to see anyone for two whole weeks. He was a very independent and proud man who wanted to take care of business before letting people…

  meowmeowproject

  February 6, 2022

  abuse, acceptance, anger, Approval, childhood, Childhood trauma, communication, Family dynamics, Gender roles, Grief, Healing, inconvenient truths, Love, Marriage, memories, Morality, Relationship, self-knowledge, soul, speaking up, story-telling, Time, vulnerable

  Broken homes, covert abuse, deception, delusion, divorce, emotional abuse, Family, Family of Origin, gaslighting, Grief, identity, Intimacy, Introjection, lies, loneliness, memories, music, narcissism, perception, Psychology, Relationship, sadness, trauma, victim blaming

• City of Angels

  These streets are marked with sadnessThe alleyways and boulevards,This city of Angels and DevilsWhere opulence and poverty rub shouldersAnd sex is plied on the streetsBy numbered girls in short pleated skirts Thick eyeliner accentuatesTheir dulled eyesAnd bright pink lipstickBelies their hardened smilesIn a city that promised muchBut instead, took everything A few blocks away,Stand houses…

  meowmeowproject

  December 21, 2021

  inconvenient truths, marginalized, poverty, prostitution, self-knowledge, vulnerable

• Praxis

  What does retraumatization and gaslighting in church look like? This is my own account of what I went through as a victim and survivor of domestic violence. I have since left this church.

  meowmeowproject

  December 19, 2021

  abuse, finding your own voice, inconvenient truths, Morality, religion, self-knowledge, speaking up, trauma, vulnerable

  christianity, emotional abuse, Relationship