You cannot be rescued Will not be rescued Blame me For the fire consuming you Hold me in contempt For having cultivated the ability To get you out of the burning building Focus your energies Not on allowing me But on condemning me Effectively pulling me into the fire With you Using what is left [...]
You exile me From your life The way this country Exiles you From its borders Eroding my love Until it turns in on itself And becomes hatred Traumatized Not by your being forced to leave But by your choosing to do so Well before Your date of departure Abandoning me On the jagged rocks As [...]
You rely entirely on caller ID Can’t be bothered To leave a message for me Telling me what’s on your mind or asking what’s on mine You don’t contact me for 10 days Then send a text That you hope I’m OK When only the day before I was in the hospital For severe chest [...]
It’s not what I want But it is what it is And I’m learning to let go To know That I’m worth more effort And that you’re not Able or willing to extend yourself No matter what the convoluted reasons It’s not my job to explain to you The wealth of alternate possibilities Or to [...]
You see the effect And attribute a cause Without knowing the context Or back story Unwittingly contributing to the damage That I keep at bay Through the conscious behaviors Which you perceive as Thoughtless reactions Feeding into the victim perpetrator storyline That threatened to destroy me Throughout my life You have but pieces of information [...]
Your actions Create situations That you respond to As a victim ©2019 by Loolwa Khazzoom. All rights reserved. No portion of this article may be copied without author’s permission.
The Sun Keeps getting into relationship with The Moon Basking dancing in Its mystical magical Light Which keeps turning out to be a reflection of The Sun The moon An empty shadow Without that Light Feeding it I have been told too often That I am too much And I keep ending up with Those [...]
This river Is leaving your boulders And heading to the vastness Of the ocean ©2018 by Loolwa Khazzoom. All rights reserved. No portion of this article may be copied without author’s permission.
I have been the River Clinging to the Boulder Trying to shape shift it Losing my own form and function In the process Stalling my flow Impeding my direction I release the boulder now Trust Life Surrender to my place In the scheme of things And allow myself to be The magnificent raging water That [...]
I had a nervous breakdown yesterday Howled with anguish so intense That I collapsed on the floor Not that you care You’ve made that perfectly clear But I wanted you to know That I’m not OK Because I’m sure You’re telling yourself That I am And agreeing with yourself As you do But I’m not [...]
