My Name • 3/5/23

When you say my name…
It’s like worlds colliding
Everything I’ve ever known & everything I’ve come to know meeting together
(Like two waves converging into one before they hit the shore)
Like a distortion, a tear within reality that reaches into and wakes my soul
Abrupt, unexpected and yet reliable and expected
I wait to be disappointed…To be let down…To have my hopes shut down yet again
Only to be met with love, acceptance, understanding
It confuses me. It is not what I know. It is not what I’ve known.
It is not what I’m used to.
Maybe it’s time I grow used to kindness, to compassion.

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