A poem a day for 2013 - day 82 - Untitled because why

I will remember to love myself and be gentle and easy with my mind my body the goddamn thoughts and sinking elevators and clouds and ceilings and all the metaphors for feeling like shit will not swallow me tonight I am not the same woman who woke up this morning with her journaling and prayers for the day I am a woman who needs to remind herself to love herself and be easy with her mind and all the chatter it holds