Tag: despair

• Faith

  September 9, 2025

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  This poem explores the complex and often contradictory feelings of a person grappling with their sense of self-worth and their place in the world. It shifts between moments of profound despair and glimpses of hope, ultimately finding solace in a simple, intimate connection with another person. The language is fragmented,…

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  + despair, healing, hope, loss, romance, self-worth, solitude

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• On a Thursday Afternoon – after watching Louis Theroux

  May 1, 2025

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  A one I will leave without much comment: On a Thursday afternoon,I sat and watched some Louis Theroux.In lands of dust and windblown dunes,He filmed with smart and somber gloom. “There’s no such thing as settler violence,”I heard it said—with cold defiance.Both gods seemed to just consentTo humans steeped in…

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  + bloodshed, conflict, crying child, despair, dissonance, documentary, emotional response, empathy, gods, humanity, identity, injustice, little girl, Louis Theroux, media perspective, Middle East, moral complexity, neighbours, oppression, perspective, poetry, political awareness, reflections, resonance, settler violence, sorrow, suffering, Thursday afternoon, truth, war

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