"Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren’t ignoring it, your healing, the fresh air can get to it. It’s honest. You aren’t hiding who you are. You aren’t rotting. People can give you advice on how to heal without scarring badly. But on the other hand there are some people who’ll feel uncomfortable around you. Some will even point and laugh. But we all have wounds. "
...And there are those poets - few and far between - who make you and your writing feel so small because yours pales in comparison, but make your heart and your spirit swell and soothed, because she let unarticulated emotions inside of you be okay in her expression of how she has felt them too.
To Be Vulnerable And Fearless: An Interview with Writer Warsan Shire
This reading stopped me (below). Made me pull out my own guts and heart and made me want to re-comit to my teenage self that swore she would never, ever be dishonest with herself. It reminded me that I have some recovering to do.
For Women Who Are 'Difficult' To Love
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