these are the unmakings of me
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed | By Dahlia Baasher | 70x70 Oil painting on canvas using palette knives, 2021 these are the unmakings of me i pile my dead aside & start anew- grief is a chest swelling a pain in the lower abdomen a gathering storm a hollow feeling in the first hour of morning. -lord knows i've been mourning for far too long there is so much pain i cannot name- there is love with no abode, makidada and memories with no hope of return. i have grieved a nation more times in a lifetime than i can recount i cannot name a time when i was not