Charity Luster
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just a woman who writes for clarity and healing
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You Think Divorce Means Something to Me?
I am on my right-side, ear to the concrete, nose to nose with the man that I love, crying enough tears to make the pacific swell up with jealousy. He loves me in the way that most men know how, carelessly with little thoughts of what it means and what loving me calls for. I’ve laid here in the smoldering Texas heat for hours contemplating a question that means nothing to either of us: Should we divorce? Its more trivial of a question than you may think because what difference does stripping the title of our love make? I think we should focus our energy elsewhere and he’s exasperated because he thinks this matters. He thinks that disassociating our titles of husband and wife will relieve him of his burden. He thinks that the dissolution of our marriage will be what stops his bleeding and what strips him of his awkward responsibility to know love and approach it relentlessly through all his aversions and apprehensions.
By Charity Luster4 years ago in Humans
Lips
Mauve is the color of my lips The lips that I line with revolutionary lines and color in with bold uncomfortable truths, The lips I paint with honest statements to embolden myself to speak the truth and not worry about it being too pretty, or too disruptive, or too much of anything.
By Charity Luster5 years ago in Poets
