Words

How I escape through words

I am all of them,
they are all of me
I am me, they are thee
and I have no children
to float in the space between.
— Etheridge Knight

Photo by Gustavo Lampert on Unsplash

I let my words reek of sadness
because for now this is what my life is.
I am mourning for the loss which never happened
or maybe each loss belongs to me.
I am in…