Thursday, November 19, 2015

Sadness deep & oceanic
Ebb & flow for weeks
Dark waters & cold
But calm within the deep
Not churned by surface
Nor depth charges
Yet.
~ Daphne Yvonne Bradshaw© 2015, Daphne Yvonne Bradshaw. All rights reserved.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Reflecting on so many disasters & grievous evils:
My heart aches for all the pain, the struggle, the toil, the agony strain
That the living earth must sustain
Not by own choice
Except love for life
Which will go on

I lift my heart & declare my stance
I am not choosing this by chance
Life, Love, Shining my little light as brightly as I can -
I will choose to love & be me,
Doing the best I can where I am,
Embracing the pains
To absorb, ground, & heal them
As a woman, alive,
Not more nor less.
Let the evil, the hatred, the fears, distress
Stand down.
I will not.
I will love!
~ Daphne Yvonne Bradshaw © 2015, Daphne Yvonne Bradshaw. All rights reserved.

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Even the fantasy section of the bookstores or media - those "self help" fairytales - thrive on shame. There is a difference between learning/trying to do what is right and "improving" oneself. Even the admonition to look on the light side of life, while good in its place, is used as a cudgel to bludgeon us into submission. All false ... toxic shame. So, we learn to accept ourselves as who we are now. It is not easy, but it is vital. I am who I am - not more nor less.. just who I am - a woman trying my best as often as possible with who I am, with where I come from, with what I have... just me... all of who I am. That is not the false pride & arrogance of the narcissist. It just simply is reality. ~ Daphne Yvonne Bradshaw