Dakota Warren (@dakotawarren)
Music has that ability to unleash the trappings inside me that I can't set free on my own.
Inspire and release me while triggering and twisting me into knots while you force me to see myself clearly.
You. Yes you.
The wound won't close if I keep picking at it
But I'm in love with my pain it would seem.
The one I mistake for your face and voice
It
... See morethink of my neighbour’s rosary, worn smooth from years of use, and wonder what it felt like for her to inhabit a world where every gesture meant something more. I mimic those gestures sometimes. Not because I believe, but because I want to . It’s a form of envy for a coherence I’ve never known. Her God is a presence; mine is a question. Maybe the... See more
Substack • We Ate the Gods
I remember hopelessly trying to make myself feel even the glimmer of anything good, turning to everything – the music, the friends – that had brought me so much joy before, only to find that I could no longer feel any of it but rather just, from somewhere afar, see and long for it while watching as the ever-darkening blackness in me instead... See more