Review:
The Lovely Wild in Me has three parts it speaks to: Anguish, Yearn and Mend (Heal). And within each section are poems that inspire you to see your own life from a different perspective. You are left remembering those very things that hurt you, or broke you, but in the end did not define you. They didn’t define you because you are still here. You healed from it and you let it go. Each section read, I gathered favorites and wrote them down, but in the Mend (Heal) section is where my favorites tripled. Healing from bad things isn’t the easiest thing to do and everyone will tell you or suggest to you how to do it. Ultimately though, you have to find a way to heal yourself your own way and in your own time. Sometimes, if not all the times, we forget to heal ourselves from past events, or maybe we feel we don’t deserve to or simply, we just don’t want to. The ability to heal from something requires you to delve deeper into the realm of the past, going through it and then releasing it. The hardest part for anyone, myself included, is the ability to walk through that fire once again and relive those moments. But how do you truly heal if you don’t walk through that path again? It will only constantly relive itself in you if you don’t pull them out like weeds. You will scar, yes, and it’s okay. Those scars, I’ve come to find, only remind us of what we’ve been through and what we’ve got out of. You are still unique. You are still beautiful. And not anything less.
From Anguish:
“Roses slice
you open
when you
grip them
too tightly;
people are
like roses,
I’ve cut my
hands for
those
who only
bloom for
a season.”
From Yearn:
“He is the
moon,
highlighting
each scar
of mine
& he whispers
that I’m
still beautiful.”
From Mend (Heal):
“I picked up
pieces of
myself,
scattered about
like a
jigsaw puzzle
& then
I tenderly kissed
each and every part,
-an apology to myself”
