You Are Here

Some nights will be colder
but you will survive,
you always did
as long as you tried.

I only need and will keep

what is enough and never more.

and I can’t blame them for that

I don’t even know how to love me

I hate and hate and hate

even when I fight.

To all the places I’ve visited while I was working on You Are Here, thank you for letting me discover and rediscover you.

My family, friends, and kind strangers, who have offered me support and showered me with goodness and love.

My dog, who has been the most loyal companion and the best cheerleader.

The Auckland Central City Library, for giving me the space, literally and figuratively, to work on this.

Let yourself go through all of this,
without guilt and shame.