Thank you, this has given me some important things to think about. I have been labeled traumatizing, unrepentant, etc… and broken felt better than those projections. But you are helping me realize that broken is not for humans. Coffee mugs, door handles, and washing machine can Be broken. I am not a machine. I don’t break. I change.
Exactly babe. You change, you expand, you grieve, you struggle, you mourn, you explode (with laughter, with joy?) but you aren’t broken and you don’t need fixing. Healing, maybe. Hugs and compassionate eye contact, definitely. You are doing better than you think. ❤️
I agree with this wholeheartedly and have always bristled at the word “broken” to describe people. There are much better metaphorical terms we can use to describe something similar: bruised, wounded, or as you said traumatized. Even simply ‘hurt.’ But mostly I just want to say: THIS POEM. Thank you for writing and sharing. 💛
Thank you for your response and for the share, Adriel. 🙏🏼 I agree; language creates culture, and so I feel jt matters very much the way we speak of people who perhaps aren’t doing the things we want them to do.
“Never hard enough to break” is a miraculous, beautiful thing.
🙏🏼 indeed. We are soft miracles.
LESLIE. THIS POEM.
It may not read that way, but underneath, the ending sort of seethes for me.
It’s reads as the best kind of anger to me. Indignant, flaunting the beauty that nothing could break.
Thank you, this has given me some important things to think about. I have been labeled traumatizing, unrepentant, etc… and broken felt better than those projections. But you are helping me realize that broken is not for humans. Coffee mugs, door handles, and washing machine can Be broken. I am not a machine. I don’t break. I change.
Exactly babe. You change, you expand, you grieve, you struggle, you mourn, you explode (with laughter, with joy?) but you aren’t broken and you don’t need fixing. Healing, maybe. Hugs and compassionate eye contact, definitely. You are doing better than you think. ❤️
Wow. Every bit... Thank you for writing it this way. Reminds of me of Nouwen's thinking in "The Wounded Healer."
If there’s one author where I always think, “Why haven’t I read more of them!” it’s Nouwen.
SAY ALL THAT AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!
Yes ma’am I will. ❤️
Beautiful!
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Thank you for this. So much meat on this bone, I’ll be chewing for awhile.
Great to know it resonated with you. ❤️
A thousand YES!
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I agree with this wholeheartedly and have always bristled at the word “broken” to describe people. There are much better metaphorical terms we can use to describe something similar: bruised, wounded, or as you said traumatized. Even simply ‘hurt.’ But mostly I just want to say: THIS POEM. Thank you for writing and sharing. 💛
Thank you for your response and for the share, Adriel. 🙏🏼 I agree; language creates culture, and so I feel jt matters very much the way we speak of people who perhaps aren’t doing the things we want them to do.
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I’m glad you came along too :). Thanks for your input!