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Lingering thoughts

On discovering internal validation.

By S. RaePublished 3 years ago 1 min read

Interesting that life comes in phase

Like dressing for the male gaze

Or dining on lines of toxic rhetoric

Instead of recognizing one’s meteoric

To growing beyond the need for your praise

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S. Rae

Using pen as lantern, with curious gaze do I observe and witness. Humor blended with love, paramount for survival of this heart. Writings to share and release, to birth and make peace. Through vulnerability to the explicit, do I dare.

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