If home is where the heart is, I’m wondering if my heart is ever going to be wholly home again.

#smallMoments #beautifulTruth #brutalTruth

When the elevator drops too quickly in a high rise building
Or the plunge on a roller coaster leaves my stomach flipped
Like some kind of circuit or my clumsy feet tripped
Maybe that’s why I’m a little scared and I know this feeling
Maybe that’s why it feels like I’m falling.

#smallPoems #smallMoments #beautifulTruth #lovePoems

I have the kinds of loves
Who love seeing me
Upside down
Inside out
Light up
With love
Falling in
Head first
Gooey insides out
Heart on my sleeve
Check-in with needs
Listen to the chaos
Love hearing me feel
Heard and understood
Excited, oh so very
Enticed
Asking why?
Why?
Why am I so lucky?
How, when I’m
A chaos magnet?
And my house is a mess?
The answer is
Unanimous
Because you’re
You
Somehow they
Love me
And love me
And love me

— LLL, V
#smallPoems #SmallMoments
#beautifulTruth #ThisIsLove

Love bites mark my skin
Body graffiti spelling
My lover was here

Too soon cleared away
Need to reconnect, refresh
My canvas is yours

— the moments before dawn are the hardest

#SmallPoems #SmallMoments
#BeautifulTruth #575

You don’t even know
you are a live-wire
circuit-breaker
flicking switches
scratching itches
clearing debris
making me
make space
for me
(so selfishly)
so I can be
with you
sometimes

Some time
becomes
some thing
and something
Something
maybe more

Even if this
turns out to be
a not-thing
it is not nothing

There’s reshaping
It’s exciting
And I like it

You are a fire-cracker
heart jump-start
unexpected
perspective
and you don’t even know it
(Yet)

#SmallPoems #SmallMoments #BeautifulTruth

I have the kinds of loves
who love me when my other loves
are hurting
and I am collateral damage

When I rang them
in tears
voice breaking
in fear

I asked if they had spoons
to let me vent -
could they help
pick up my pieces?

And they told me
Yes!
Be there in 10 minutes

And when they arrived
they held me
while I cried
outside the crowded restaurant.

—sometimes this is what love looks like

#SmallMoments #SmallPoems #BeautifulTruth

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I have the
kinds of loves
in my life
who hold

space

for me
to be
in tears;
who hold
my hand
through fears;
who hold
my heart;
and make me
laugh until I cry
and laugh
and laugh
and fill my heart
with the music
of loving laughs.

I am loving well, and well loved.

— Having and holding, in sickness and in health.

#SmallMoments #SmallPoems
#BeautifulTruth

He whispered “I want your lips fluttering against mine as you sing that unstoppable song”

And my heart was once again beating faster, lovingly wrapped in the warmth of his Words.

#smallMoments #beautifulTruth
#smallPoems #ThisOneIsYours

Safety in my skin
Unrequested but welcome
Spontaneous stripping back

#MastoPrompt spontaneous 25 June 2023
#smallPoems #beautifulTruth
#smallMoments (but actually quite profound)

Love is letting you be
Because I know I can interrupt your sleep/day/evening/night
If ever I can’t navigate my way
From my heady hellscape at 3am

Your love means I’ve got this
So I write to leech poison
But it’s the love that pours out
And outside, the howling wind, driving rain
Are a metaphor for a storm kept at bay.

.

(And now I can sleep)
#ThisIsLove #SmallMoments #smallPoems #BeautifulTruth