Resilient

poetry for your day

another prequel poem for you today - watch me read it here.

Giving voice to what haunts
Suffocates fear
Traps air in its lungs not mine
I breathe deeper as I let
My words free me

It’s always worked like this
I say what I feel and it sounds like
Over sharing but I’m sharing just enough
Sipping a little more air
To keep me from drowning

I tread water with my voice
Slipping under when I feel
Shame or embarrassment or worry of
Being too much
Wondering
“What will they think of me?”

So

I hold my breath
Fighting for silence and
Choking on rivers of
All the things I want to say
Coughing up water boarded words to
Describe what it feels like to be me

Someone who wants to be seen
Understood
Who craves expression but
Fears rejection
A woman who doesn’t know
When or how to quit and
Will never

- resilient, Abby O'Keefe

You can pre-order a Kindle copy of my book here. Kindle, paperback, and hardcover all releasing March 20.

big love,

-A