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This week's poem

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Marcela Onyango
Feb 11, 2024
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to make yourself vulnerable is to let another soul see your spirit deflate, soar, rest, and persist despite the fear of being seen naked I want to be vulnerable

I write poems whenever words come to me. Sometimes they just spill out and I’m not sure where they are coming from. This is a poem that I wrote and forgot about. I’m not sure what inspired it but I think it might be seeing someone living freely. Onto the poem…

How do you do that?

How do you do that? 
Take up so much space
Show up with such conviction that your body belongs in that space?

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