by Tara Joyce | Feb 23, 2017
I can’t take ownership of these feelings, these thoughts. These issues are not mine to hold. I am without scars; flawless. Undesirable qualities, I have not. It is You that is angry. Jealous. Insecure. It is You that is to blame. It is You that has these faulty...
by Tara Joyce | Aug 5, 2016
Not wanting to feel it. Apathy towards the whole thing. Why bother? Isn’t it curious how we can love something. Someone. So much. And feel so completely rejected and disappointed by them. Two sides of a coin. Love and pain. How can I care so much, and yet desire...
by Tara Joyce | Jun 24, 2016
Regret is a painful thing. We see it through the lens of things undone, unsaid, unbeen. We feel it for those moments where our head overran our heart. We embrace it when we act from fear rather than love. All these moments we regret. It is never the moments from love,...
by Tara Joyce | Jun 1, 2016
So good at the act that you forget what’s true. So good at pretending that the unreal becomes real. What you feel is under your control. You can simply act it away. A mask of neutrality. Leads you to believe you might actually feel it. You can ignore your...
by Tara Joyce | May 19, 2016
Emotional littering is when I attempt to alleviate my own overwhelming emotions by disposing of them elsewhere, when I inherently know they’re mine to be responsible to. In those moments, I don’t want to own what I’m feeling and how I’m...