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Grief is daunting but healing and transformation are worth the struggle.

Sleepless Hollow

These painful feelings held in the palm of my hand,

in this dreary sleepless hollow, will keep me here until I learn

to let them go.

In Healing, author Olivia Cooney offers a collection of poems born out of her experiences of emotional abuse during a long-term relationship and the happiness she found during her healing.

Healing, she discovered, is a journey filled with grief and insecurities interspersed with moments of joy. Inspired by the process of healing, these poems dive into themes of abuse, grief, reinvention, and finding peace after trauma. Cooney includes thirteen heavy poems, eight transitional poems, and thirteen hopeful poems.

Healing offers insight into Cooney’s journey, putting into words both the pain and joy experienced during the healing process.

Sujets

Vie de famille

Relations familiales

Poetry

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Publié par	Archway Publishing
Date de parution	27 octobre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781665730662
Langue	English

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of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.

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ISBN: 978-1-6657-3065-5 (sc)

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Archway Publishing rev. date: 10/27/2022
Contents

The Darkest of Times

Innocence

Women’s Equity

Exposed

Witch Hunt

Unseen Marks

Demons

Numb

Rose Colored Glasses

Unraveled

Body and Soul

Wither

Sober

Self-destruction

Times of Transition

Perspective

Twisted House

Life Cycle

Death vs Life
Uncomfortable Growth

Backbone

When I Wake

Quilting

Sleepless Hollow

Renewal

Rebirth

Supernova

Tanzanite Dreams

Wisteria

Sunday Sunrise

Daisy

Lotus Flower

Auntie Kisses

Yin and Yang

Gray

Summer Sunset

Christmas Joy

Fine Like Wine

Afterword

About the Author
Thank you to my friends and family for their endless support.
And for “Little” Andy who left us too soon…
This book includes mature themes such as mental illness, abuse, sexuality, and politics.
The Darkest of Times
Innocence
A jack-in-the-box shares my mind.
But its erratic behavior leaves me on edge.
Like a kite battered by the wind, I am the whole of a torn piece.
They say it is my fault for standing too close,
for not closing my eyes as blinding light shot out from a single atom.
Purity, not light, makes one blind.
Virginity drags you to the depths of the abyss and leaves you there with the rotting flesh.
Until all the innocence rots away, you cannot see.
Only once the marrow has degraded, does color begin to reveal itself.
The dark black and blue shades reek of sadness and loneliness
And I wish to vanish from it like Houdini and his jail break.
But leaving this room means being plagued by strawberries and cotton candy.
Forevermore like a jack-in-the-box.
Women ’s Equity
Women’s Equity
You say I am too much, but you never stop talking,
even interrupting me.
But that’s ok for you to do with your five-o’clock shadow
and chauvinism.
Your expectations of me are “reasonable”.
Me: available at your beck and call.
Playing the multiple roles of baggage handler, therapist, and best friend.
My wishes, to be free in a world made for everyone,
troublesome, annoying, immodest.
It is unnecessary for me to want equity in your mind.
Vexatious, even.
If only I was red-blooded like you.
But then that’d make me domineering not assertive,
You take initiative while I can only take a negative tone.
Your mistakes are glossed over while mine are under a microscope
Where does the misogyny end and my rights begin?
Certainly not just in the domestic.
I deserve a say in my health care, in whom I marry, in where I work.
I deserve a choice in how many kids I have, in what books I read and where I get an education, what I eat, who I sleep with and when.
When did men decide they were the keepers of women?
Where do my rights begin?