Chaos with Cait

Wonder came back softly, not loud like lightning, but like light through leaves. I looked up and for once I didn’t brace for the fall. I...

There is a silence that comes after losing, not the soft kind, but the kind that presses your chest into the floorboards, the kind that...

I stand at the edge of everything I've ever wanted, and hesitate.

I unlearned survival just enough to let love linger without needing a reason.

I thought I had to chase it, but love found me when I stood still long enough to feel my own pulse.

I have only ever been into intentional men, never once, not ever, have I been into the emotional lads.

I used to flinch at my own reflection, now I toast to her bravery.

You were always so polite; So careful, you measured every word before you spoke as if your worth hung in the balance. You smiled when you...

Grief taught me how sacred it is to simply keep breathing.

They said womanhood lived in my womb as if it were a locked room that I lost the key to when cancer came calling. They measured me in...

They said you’re lucky , Said you’re young, resilient, strong. Said you should be grateful to survive. But no one said how survival can...

There are pieces of me only love can find, and only light can keep.

Time did not rush me. Time waited, like cupped hands, for me to come back to myself.