Family & Belonging
Poetry about the people we come from, the people we choose, and the complicated ways family can mean love, distance, loyalty, hurt, and belonging all at once.
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An estranged daughter writes to the father who taught her that love could sound like shouting and home could become something to escape.
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At five years old, foster care becomes the day the world changes shape and a little girl learns adults do not always know where children belong.
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A poem about being accused of playing games when the relationship had always been painfully real.
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She becomes the messenger carrying frightening news to someone she loves, wishing every call could have stayed ordinary.
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A sisterly apology from the place where fear, protection, and broken trust collided hard enough to make two people lose each other in the middle.
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A Christmas full of fear and divided loyalties becomes a memory of two people trying to protect different parts of the same family.
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An apology to Sierra that stops polishing the truth and admits plainly where trust was broken.
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An ordinary coffee with a friend becomes evidence of how easily someone else can mistake independence for abandonment.
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The anger aimed at her was never really hers; it was pain from somewhere else repeatedly placed in her hands.
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Apologies can sound beautiful, but actions are the language that finally tells the truth.
