Lisa Strader on The Liminality Journal

[Lisa Strader]

"You're allowed to feel

what you feel."

But what if

what I feel

is nothing?

What if

what I feel

is everything?

What if this tension

tears me into tectonic plates,

an earthquake in my body- mind?

What then? Am I allowed to feel

the things that don't make sense to me

or you or them or anyone?

Am I allowed to rip apart

and break, destroy, and tremble?

[Kaitlin Curtice]

So good, yes. Thank you for sharing!

[Sarah Hope Guppy]

Yes. And maybe (hopefully) you'll realise you are mighty, and you can handle it 💜

[Julie Schmidt]

Oh yes, especially the things that don't make sense!

[Rachel Browning]

Oof. I know this tension well. Thank you for sharing.

[A. Wilder Westgate]

I really felt this one, Lisa. It speaks to my own experience so well.

[Karri Temple Brackett]

Yes! Everything and nothing. I have had a lot of that lately.

[Larry Brickner-Wood]

I love this poem, Lisa! And your questions and your wonderings! These lines resonated so powerfully for me:

"What if this tension

tears me into tectonic plates,

an earthquake in my body- mind?

What then? Am I allowed to feel

the things that don't make sense to me

or you or them or anyone?

Am I allowed to rip apart

and break, destroy, and tremble?"

What a gift it is to read this splendid poem!

[Lisa Strader]

Thanks so much!