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Mothers Day

This was not the first Mothers Day she and I had spent alone But it was the first that you had not engaged with The first that you had...

Can we just be real for a second I say it in my own head A little wish for myself For you To hold my hand close to your heart And just be...

It flashed up today, This little reminder on facebook ‘It’s Gemma Garwood’s Birthday today.’ It technically isn’t, Actually it’s the...

Sometimes When the light shines in through the window In my bedroom It brings joy Happy to see you there in the morning glow Ready to see...

And again the forest yawns wide I lean in and inspect its teeth Under a darkening sky my skin prickles I may have been this way before...

Here Beneath the floorboards of this place There were stacks of newspapers Damp, black and white Print peeling onto the fingers Filled up...

I once allowed myself to be placed upon a pedestal, But it did me no good. I am aware that I am wonderful in many ways, But I am more...

Before the snow I had been wishing for 34 years For those flakes to fall on my birthday To tumble down and wipe the world clean To settle...

Tremble before me I said, Shake For there is something so powerful beating in my chest I hear it thump against the heavens Tremble before...

My knees buckled From the weight of everything I had been carrying for months and Other things that I didn’t realise until later I had...