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Hey there, and welcome back to Spoken Word. This poem is titled Sheep . I was inspired to write this poem by recent events in my life surrounding my deconstruction from Christianity. Something I was told often by my parents and religious leaders was not to be a “sheep”, not to follow the herd of nonbelievers down the “wide path of destruction”.  I always found that odd, because I am no stranger to scripture and I know that passages such as Psalm 23 endearingly refer to God as

Hey there and welcome to Spoken Word, where I share my poetry with you lovely folks. Today’s poem is titled Rupture . This poem is particularly emotional for me (as you can quite literally hear my voice quaking towards the end…) because I wrote it detailing my own experiences from the perspective of a woman in an image I saw when I was at my sickest suffering from bulimia nervosa. The woman had died naked, kneeling on the ground and slumped over the toilet. She died of gastri