It’s been three days since I took a shower. I spent all of them in the same pajamas. Yesterday I didn’t even brush my teeth. Today, I showered. I couldn’t get the water hot enough. I needed to boil off the residue left behind from this most recent time sitting on the ‘pitty pot.’ It …
Dear Reader, I’m thrilled you are here. It is more than a little strange knowing my first book has been published. The Amirah Diamond is literally in people’s hands and could be being read right at this very moment. I’m a little freaked out. But, I could ‘t be more excited and happy to have …
“The worst thing that could happen is you could die. And, you didn’t die, so you’re fine.” Famous words of my mother. Her badges of honor were not colors on a metal bar. Her victories in battle were not lined up and displayed on her chest. Rather, they were displayed in the subtle way the …
Teetering on the edge of losing my grip feels like holding my breath. I continue to move forward even so. I am ripe with agitation since most days end with so little complete. So little under my control. Not enough of me nor time for what I love on top of what I must do. …
Compassionate-rains water Her drought.Her landscape meant to fertile lives inside out. Ignite, wills She commanding forest-fires run free.Her message is clear but ignored by many. What would She do? Alas, you shall see.She’s already begun. Trying, She seeks a desperate remedy. Mountains of ocean rock and sway.Her core boils furious with each passing day. She …
To know the empty, the nothing, the starving ache, Is to breathe, to love, to reach and break.To know the hunger, the barren, the freezing chill, Is to eat the last, the stale, no waist, and love it still.To have so little, is the agony of more, to feel the thirst, Is to have it …
Wise Woman Rings grown crusted like layers of skinSaturated with blood from wars none winIf you listen to her now let her words dig inEarth’s story, renowned I fear no way to begin. Her mother’s nature is to beat and embraceWe have lost our commitment now lack of faceGreed and hatred occupy its placeWho sings …
You cannot gaze upon Her eyes nor feel Her embrace. Her form so large, voiceless, and without a face. If you listen and feel there She will be. If you listen and feel then you will see. A blaze, a fiery scream so vast and far away. Yet meant for us all to listen and …
My younger self’s assumption of adulthood was that I would reach a higher level of happy existence having completed an evolution past trivial hangups such as figuring out who I am, trying to stay skinny, pretty, and confident. Oh dear younger self, that was only the tip of the iceberg. I have finally figured only …
