Endure
When the person being cared for says what they need — and is not heard.
When the person being cared for says what they need — and is not heard.
Sometimes the most unexpected days become the ones that quietly reshape the stories we tell ourselves.
There are moments when another person’s pain reaches across the space between us and touches something familiar.
A poem about waiting, uncertainty, and the quiet courage of continuing without knowing what comes next.
A poem about what remains after certainty falls away – and the quiet decision to stay open, stay in relationship, and choose love anyway.
A poem written in my late teens about captivity, fear, and survival. Years later, it revealed a meaning I could never have imagined when I first wrote it.