“Reluctant love is the experience of loving someone with your entire soul, even when your logical mind tells you it would be much safer not to. It is a love that refuses to die, lingering deep in the fibers of your being.” It's the tugging on the spiritual umbilical cord that connects a mother and her baby forever, while the flesh still pushes away. Two souls trapped behind the walls of human caution. Shame initiates the push, grief maximizes the pull. It's reluctant love. Th

So this is a poet’s prayer. Hear me roar through the metaphors. For who I was is never again, and who I am is forever more.

Exposing the Silence Around Adoption

She took a step back, looked me up and down, and with a curled, aggressive sneer said, “You ain’t even my child!”

A truth, a voice for anyone who’s ever felt like the sheet, tucked into someone else’s version of love, but never quite covered.