Cowards die many times before their deaths.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

35It seems to me most strange that men should fear,

Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.

Julius Caesar

 Magnetic Resonance Imagining

 

MASKING

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

35It seems to me most strange that men should fear,

Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.

                            Julius Caesar 

 

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Distancing

 

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Masking and Distancing



 

 Identity Theft Protection

  

You stole my identity

You stole my personality

You steal my intelligence

and my memory of how to draw flowers.

 

Crack the combination of my sexual history.

Dumpster-dive my defects and the numbers assigned them

But give me fair credit--

I’ve bought a cross-cutting shredder.

Steal the law

and steel me.

 

I must leave now.

 

I live in a toybox with my old old dolls and my play animals,

who bear no numbers and were paid for in cash.

Drug thieves have access to my former soul

but have no interest here.

 

The chalklines of your courage form the yard I live in.

The anger you protected me from lives in a basement room of our old house.

Your voice has never left.

I see your smile in the top right-hand corner of my new apartment,

Your arm around me on a table with a purpose,

Our anniversary portrait in the closet.

I hear your laughter at any moment,

But in the syrup of sadness, when I miss you most, you leave.

Be Thou My Vision

Prayer for the Day

Please give me reckless courage.

She Never Even Knew

Honestly, I just don't understand how that would make you sad. 
What does the counselor say?