Tag Archives: on Becoming
Humble: a Lesson I’d Learned, Moving from the City
Finding what she’d lost, in this, small, mining town, realizing what she’d lost, what she was, searching for, finding it slowly, again, on the growth of a woman, slowly, becoming, who she is, supposed, to become in her life, translated… … Continue reading
Finding Ways to Resolve a Heartache
Finally, shaking LOOSE, of the terrors you had to face, on that, fateful night of, your life! Translated… On that night, oh, how I’d, HATED that the adults would rather take the words of the bad guy, and NOT believed … Continue reading
On Life
What wisdom, the writer found, from the teas that she’s, drinking, translated… Maybe it’s, the magnetic fields at work, there are, those who are, living on dreams all around me, they were, often trapped, in the solitude, that no one … Continue reading
The Runt of the Pack
He was, the runt of the pack, the one that was, last picked (or rather, he wasn’t!), the one that, after all of his, brothers and sisters, were adopted out, that’s, left behind in the pound. And the pound owner, … Continue reading
A Brown Childhood
Things she’d, finally understood, about her own childhood, through looking back in time, translated… Born toward the end of winter, growing up, my favorite color was brown. The reason for it was from the beginning, my mother loved wearing brown … Continue reading
Her Daddy’s Princess
She was, since the day her mommy found out she was pregnant, to her daddy… Her daddy’s princess, she’d never imagined, to be anything else, her daddy loved her, cherished her so, gave her any and EVERYTHING she asked him … Continue reading
Breaking Free
From a Chinese website of a man who was sexually molested and abused when he was a young child, translated by me… This is the dream of a woman. The woman arrived before a doorway. She’d knocked, and an elderly … Continue reading
The Adult You Want to Be…
Did you ever, get the chance, to be, the adult you want to be? I mean, I’m more than certain, that back when we’re all young children, we must’ve, had some beliefs, about the kinds of adults we’re going to, … Continue reading
A Child, without a Last Name, on How a Life is, Destined, to Become, Extraordinary
Born, in the most unusual of circumstances, and destined, to become something extraordinary, translated… Auntie Chou was only twenty-three, but, her skin already became, too dried up, she’s, thin as a beanpole. At sunset, she’d stopped weaving, gone into the … Continue reading
Endgame — The Renegade Press
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson I used to be really afraid of death. For as long as I can remember I have been petrified by the knowledge that life is finite, … Continue reading