What stands out to me here isn’t just the movement toward solitude, but what it’s built on.
There’s this underlying sense that the self was shaped in conditions that were never stable to begin with—“a foundation built on flowing ground.” So choosing something steady later doesn’t feel natural; it feels like learning from scratch.
And that makes the line “I choose” land differently. Not as a clean declaration, but as something earned through fracture. Almost like choice becomes the only place left to stand when everything else has been unreliable.
I’ve said this to you before in a different way, but the way your images sit inside the writing continues to deepen that feeling rather than illustrate it. They don’t explain anything—they hold the same ambiguity the words are moving through.
There’s a quiet honesty in not fully resolving it.
Thank you so much for sharing this! This is absolutely beautiful. It shook me. I feel the weight of it in my stomach anchoring me to the floor. So much of this mirrors my own experiences. Thank you. Absolutely beautiful!💙
This is so brilliant. I love how it is structured, one like makes you feel, another breaks you (in a good way), the third one comforts you, because you may be in the minority, but you're not alone.
Beautiful, bellissimo!!!
Thank you so so much!! 🤍
Freedom.
Yes!! 🙌🏻
This one is special 💜
Thank you so much, Kasu. It comes from a dark place. 🖤
I can tell, and feel it too 💜
❤️
you continue to excite and amaze. thank you so much for this one in particular.
family is not always thus. this i have learned.
Thank you so much, Christopher!! This means a lot to me. 🤍
I believe so. The family I choose and try to be is different from what i experienced.
I really appreciate you reading and feeling this one. 🙏🏻🖤
What stands out to me here isn’t just the movement toward solitude, but what it’s built on.
There’s this underlying sense that the self was shaped in conditions that were never stable to begin with—“a foundation built on flowing ground.” So choosing something steady later doesn’t feel natural; it feels like learning from scratch.
And that makes the line “I choose” land differently. Not as a clean declaration, but as something earned through fracture. Almost like choice becomes the only place left to stand when everything else has been unreliable.
I’ve said this to you before in a different way, but the way your images sit inside the writing continues to deepen that feeling rather than illustrate it. They don’t explain anything—they hold the same ambiguity the words are moving through.
There’s a quiet honesty in not fully resolving it.
Your comments are always so profound and deep, I appreciate this and you so much, Brandy. ❤️ Thank you for being here, reading and fully embracing!!
this is so beautifully written i love your writing style
Thank you so much!! 🤍 This is very kind of you.
Beautifully written ❤️
Thank you so much, A. G.!! 🙏🏻🤍🫶🏻
So beautiful ❤️❤️❤️ washed-out colors
numbed
by the need
to belong
lethargic
beyond
indifference
Thank you so much, Gala!! ❤️ This means a lot!
Thank you so much for sharing this! This is absolutely beautiful. It shook me. I feel the weight of it in my stomach anchoring me to the floor. So much of this mirrors my own experiences. Thank you. Absolutely beautiful!💙
Thank you so much for feeling this so deeply, Rebecca!! 🖤 I really appreciate your sensitive comment.
I loved this piece!
Thank you so much, Stephanie!! I’m so glad my words resonated. 🤍
Pleaseee let me know if publish your poems in print. Beautiful and deeply felt as always🩶
Thank you so much, Alex!! 🤍 This means a lot coming from you.
I‘ve been thinking about this for some time. I’m still stuck in the „how am I gonna do this?“. 🙈😊
Lethargic beyond indifference…darn, what a line wildflower!
Thank you so much, Jo-Ann!! 🤍
You’re welcome 💖
That's what I tell myself, too.
This is so brilliant. I love how it is structured, one like makes you feel, another breaks you (in a good way), the third one comforts you, because you may be in the minority, but you're not alone.
Thank you so much for really feeling and understanding my words, Debdutta!! 🤍
This has force. The ending is what stayed with me. 🖤
Thank you so much, Samu. 🤍 I wrote it out of intense emotions.
Their expectations are insignificant in the grand scheme of things. You are perfect the way you are, Wildflower! <3 <3
Thank you so much, Rea!! So are you! 🫶🏻❤️🙏🏻
who we are and what other people expect are rarely compatible. Sometimes the journey to self-discovery is all we truly have
Yes!! There’s only one person whose expectations you should really meet, yourself.
Thank you so much for reading so deeply, William! 🤍