(Claire contemplates her experience of the ferocity of falling in love)
When you get sucked in
You fall too fast...
Not knowing, just grasping at life and tripping into love
Happy and oblivious to the depth
The depth of your feelings, your love
Dependency
Love.
A rush, a lightness, a gleeful intoxication
It crawls under your skin, into your heart
Steadfast
Rock solid grasp
Defiance
Love.
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Turbulence
PoetryA series of poems from the POV of Claire, whose last year has seen her survive both a sexual assault in parallel to a deep, intoxicating first love shrouded in secrecy and loss. During this turbulence and trauma she writes to gain distance and under...
