letters to the void.

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The Search for a Land of My Own | Vol 1: Grief
poems on Blackness, longing, and grief | 2024
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
Unholy Smothering • 6/24
CW: Being sick Like a prison coursing through my veins Attempting to overtake my being I feel the urge to purge it… Purge myself from this unholiness…
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Bleeding Out | The Work of Goddesses • 5/24
I’m never making the same mistake again - trusting those that don’t deserve it Home shouldn’t make one’s eyes bleed that much, should it? It’s easier to…
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
Learning How to Live • 4/9/24
I would rather die living as myself, as I truly am than living the death-bound life of carrying out the lie you constructed of me, forcing me to play it…
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
Memory Loss • 3/12/24
Something’s missing A memory lost within the threads A sinking feeling grows in my stomach An emptiness takes place of What once filled the void I long…
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
Blood Poisoning • 3/8/24
Please don’t take what little I have… What little I’ve built, away from me Please don’t take away my will for this life (for she is so new) What do you…
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
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Backstabbing | Mirage • 2/22/24
There’s nothing worse than when someone listens to you, Feigns care, Only to backstab you with all of the pieces Of your heart you gave them, Leaving…
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
Metamorphosis • 2/20/24
We hurt ourselves to become ourselves… Our pain becoming part of the process to freedom/enlightenment/rebirth Is pain necessary for metamorphosis? Does…
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
Outgrown • 2/7/24
You asked me if it was really me It was I’ve just grown And been through shit I grew right in front of your eyes and you didn’t even notice Maybe…
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
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Letters to my Mother • 1/5/24
You wait by my door hoping I’ll let you in. Your head rested on the cold surface, Slightly damp from your salty tears. I wish I could do more for you, I…
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
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Reflection • 1/1/24
you, with the eyes of a child whose soft light has been extinguished by the staleness of the world your gentle soul glistening in the starlight whose…
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
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Through Time & Space • 12/31/23
When I close my eyes I see other worlds. I exist in other spaces. Sometimes whenever I am within the grips of my own reality, My mind drifts off to some…
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
Christmas • 12/25/23
It’s Christmas Day And I’m crying If I said I was excited for this holiday I’d be lying Amid consumerism and capitalism All I want for Christmas is the…
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Raven Abíóyè Ash
Time Travel • 12/16/23
I have the ability to travel through time and space But not the way you’d think My peculiar ability to manipulate the cosmos Is not rooted in daft fairy…
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letters to the void.
letters to the void.
to myself and for all those in a similar place - to all of my trans siblings and especially my Black siblings <3 together we survive | all pieces are excerpts from a collective book tbr ~ letters to the void.
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