Pie in the sky?

By: Malky Grunwald I’ve been hurt. In a deep way. Biting, ugly words were rubbed into tender, bleeding skin. By someone who should have been there to protect me, to think the world of me, to always bring the very best out in me. Instead, I’ve often been her punching bag, a convenient dartboard, target […]

Coming home

By: Shira Lavon Hi, inner childAre you there?Or have I lost my mind? Wait, I see someone smallAt the bottom of a dark, dreary holeCurled up into a fetal ball Hi, I slowly say again Fearful eyes return my gazeSilent, but I sense your pain I’m sorry it’s taken me a whileBut I’m here for you […]

Still afloat

By: Esther Kohl I’m a weather-beaten boat bobbing along in the storm. There’s no shore, no island, no dry land as far as the eye can see. Just a turbulent sea of gray and an angry sky staring down with vengeance. Why am I still trying to patch the holes? Why have I not yet thrust the […]

Midnight

In the silence of the nighta lifetime ofRated-R memories creep up emerging from the depths of my mindto haunt me.  Unwelcome guests.  Old memoriessometimes faint often in vivid detail Booming echoes of the past. Disturbing.  And unsettlinglike ghosts they linger—  Whispering in reverberating decibels You Worthless Wretched soul  I wear the pastas the present its cloakchilling meto the core.  Unsettled.  Rated-R memoriesthey remain A midnight […]

Then and now

By: Emunah Harrel The backstory: This brave site member has tried a number of meds years back, before finally finding something that worked. After several years, she was ready to bid them adieu! (G-d willing, by me one day…) Now a bunch of time later, Life has pushed her in the way of some little […]