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Showing posts with label Personal Reflection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personal Reflection. Show all posts

Radiant Bloom: Notes from the Rocky Wall & The Power of Perseverance


Radiant Bloom: Notes from the Rocky Wall



A smiling Black woman (image_2.png) with a natural braided updo, wearing a stylish forest green blazer and trousers with a cream blouse, working on a laptop while seated on a rustic stone bench outdoors. She is positioned against an ivy-covered stone wall surrounded by lush ferns, foliage, and wildflowers, embodying a successful writer's "radiant bloom" and perseverance.


There are moments in life when a project, a calling, or a quiet pull of the heart strikes you in a corner—with your back pressed firm against a rocky wall. You stand there without a map. You don’t know how, when, or if the seeds you are holding will ever unfold, or if they will ever mount up to anything at all.

You just start anyway.

How to Overcome Unrequited Love: A Poem for the Unavailable


The Ache of Unattainable Love

A silhouetted couple embraces on a beach at sunset, with warm orange and pink hues in the sky and calm water.
The battle within is the hardest fought. What am I meant to overcome?



Frozen Thoughts, A Stolen Gaze, and a Heart Divided

I'm head over heels for you.
My mind freezes whenever you move.

 I become speechless in your presence.

 I know I'm not the first face you see each morning, 
and that knowledge stabs at my heart.

 My heart can't comprehend that you belong to another. 

How to Release a Love That Can Never Be Mine


How am I to overcome these feelings for you, knowing you may never be mine?

A short piece exploring the painful emotions of unrequited love 
and the struggle to overcome feelings for someone who is unavailable.