#poetry love
I didn’t know how much longer
I could put on a “strong” face
covering up my pain
then you held me
and I fell apart
in the safety
of your arms
-Samantha Camargo
You gave me a space
where I could break
and I could ache
without looking at me
like I was broken
-Samantha Camargo
Book: Night Drives on amazon
From my book Night Drives on amazon
We’re taught to care more about appearances than how we feel and so we focus more on an illusion than what is real. We stay on the surface instead of going deep to heal.
-Samantha Camargo
“…I never
asked her what she gave up to drive me,
or how her day was before this chore. Today,
at her age, I was driving myself home from yet
another spine appointment, singing along
to some maudlin but solid song on the radio,
and I saw a mom take her raincoat off
and give it to her young daughter when
a storm took over the afternoon. My god,
I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her
raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel
that I never got wet”
—from “The Raincoat” by Ada Limón
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