These reflections are inspired by my poem;
Remove the Mask, Unveil the Man.
We all carry stories about who we need to be in order to stay safe, be loved, and belong. Many of those stories were written long before we were old enough to question them.
As the poem says:
The mask was what the boy once placed,
Who learned to live without a space.
A story stitched from should and shame,
A truth he buried without a name.
These are conversations with the boy I left behind.
They are simply an honest account of what happened when I stopped running from myself and started turning towards what I was didn’t know I was carrying.
Below are Recent Conversations
Shared as life unfolds.
Conversations with My Boy - Personal Writings
I Want To Die
For most of my life, I believed the thought "I want to die" meant exactly what it said. I now understand it differently. This is the story of what happened when I stopped running from that thought and chose instead to sit beside it with curiosity.