#birthinginadequacy

Without faith in yourself how can you proclaim faith in the unknown Children bow to elders seeking wisdom of the ages Systemized and trained brainwashed to think they know It is the elders who pass the poison in knockoff kool-aid cups. Text book programming vibration through brand name sponsors as the parasite seeks out host latching on, the sucking begins dumbing down, dumbing down, dumbing down Occasionally...a rift appears when kool-aid seeps through unseen cracks to meet with a mind immune from teachers to preachers stymied The lab coat army marches to the rescue Prescription pads and medicare We'll pay to ensure you meet current criteria and should treatment prove ineffective We'll pay to make sure all know the failure you are destined to be No purpose for society medicated, hated your free thinking mind sacrilege against pre programmed limitations. From #BirthingInadequacy Natasha Head Parlour Press 2014

It's time to end this now. 20 years we've been scrambling over each other's walls. Digging through the trenches. Still...we know so little. We are dying. Each day a little more. Our bodies show it. Our minds tire more easily now. Sleep, stealing our afternoons. Fear, driving us to our quiet corners where we can deny the inevitable. We joke about who will go first, who will last longer. What we really mean, is who will be left alone. Who do we become without the other? The fight has been good. The fight has been bloody. We have purged the demons, and purged again. We have earned our place. Proven our worth. The time is upon us where no more walls are needed. Having seen the best, the worst, the enemy no longer requires we hide in the trenches to survive. We have defeated them time and again, left now to struggle the memories, teasing like poltergeists, a bump in the night. Natasha Head Tashtoo.com #poetry #prose #poetrycommunity #prosewriters #igpoets #poetsofig #poetssociety #bumpinthenight #tashtoo #NatashaHead #BirthingInadequacy #books #literature

We absorb six word wisdom like a sponge Dumbing down Zoning out Netflix numb The most fame we'll ever know Our names written On coffee cups Fostering the promise Of becoming recycled Fortune cookie prophecy Steals our poetry We learn from the greats Dissected Facebook posts Tumblr quotes Fearful of going beyond the one liner Turned down And rejected Natasha Head Tashtoo.com #poemaday #napowrimo #poetrymonth #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #igpoets #igwriters #poetsofig #WritersOfIG #poetssociety #publishedpoets #BirthingInadequacy #NationalPoetryMonth #NatashaHead #tashtoo

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It would serve me well to pay attention to the lessons my mother taught me. "The more you pick the scab, the worse the scar will be." Still, I am driven to be my own undoing. I can't pretend it's not there, that I don't care. That the hurt never happened. Skin may heal, pink and new But the scabs of the heart seldom do. They grow and fester Become wounds to the mind So while we may go days thinking everything's fine We're doomed to bleed again. Natasha Head Tashtoo.com #poetry #PoetryMonth #poetrycommunity #igpoets #poetsofig #poetssociety #bleeders #WritersOfIG #igwriters #prose #BirthingInadequacy #books #mothers #poets #tashtoo #NatashaHead #napowrimo #poemaday #padchallenge #Ijustwannawrite

You are here You exist In the face of a trillion odds A brilliant & beautiful mistake What more proof of miracle Do you need? Natasha Head #poet #poetry #poetsontumblr #spilledink #twc #NatashaHead #Tashtoo #BirthingInadequacy #literature

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Don't tell me that we can't do this Don't you dare give up on me now. Look how far we've come, Spitting truth Living proof This Is who we were born to be. Let those that don't matter pretend not to see Riding waves of resentment and jealousy This is our journey When they go out of their way not to notice It's a validation Vindication The words matter They know we're talking about them You see the guilt on their faces. Often, the ones we love, don't love us back like they should. Would prefer we live up to their expectations...not our own. So don't tell me we can't do this. I've burnt too many bridges Seen friends and family for what they really are. I will write And I will write And we will write Not because they read us Just because we have to. Natasha Head #Poetry #poetrycommunity #writers #writerscommunity #prose #literature #books #BirthingInadequacy