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I am here to improve my writing and receive feedback from others.

My passion is ...

being a mother.

I know too much about ...

... I could never know enough.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a writer.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Six Thousand Years of Bread It's Holy and Unholy History

My first job ...

was at the library.

My best moment ...

was when my daughter was born.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Regret

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Why did I listen when I should have turned away why didn't I speak up when I had so much to say It was ugly The way I let myself doubt the way I let myself believe that I deserved to go without I know it sounds absurd but that voice was all I heard for so very long all I could hear was that hateful whisper in my ear I was a disaster a complete and utter mess no wonder everyone steered clear of me in my distress There was no way to reach me I was lost even to myself You couldn't try to save me My soul was on the shelf.

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