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10 Aug 2019 Poetry dearmamarose, freedom, mamarose, memory, poet, poetry, release, time 0

Journals

Charlotte Rose

One day, my backpack will become too heavy and I’ll have to set my past down.

12 Jan 2019 Poetry dearmamarose, mamarose, poem, poet, poetry, time 0

Time

Charlotte Rose

I believe I can pray to time

and I believe that I have.

When I ask “Who am I?” I always get the same answer back…

“Time.”

24 Apr 2018 Poetry acceptance, be kind, dearmamarose, gratitude, lyrics, mamarose, manifestation, poet, poetry, refelction, self-love, singer, songwriter, spoken art, spoken word poet, time, wanting 0

You’ve got the house on the hill

Charlotte Rose

Questions fill my time but I’ve got space to fill,

I’ve heard they’re both the same, can’t tell my heart that

I wanted all the money so I’d be able to sleep

I wanted all the tears to dry so I could breathe.

Now that I’ve got money and lungs that know the breeze, I’ve got reason to believe

All the answers must be somewhere,

all the answers must be somewhere.

My heart

Call it open, call it empty, my heart

I’ve got all these open jars…

and you’ve got the house on the hill.

Maybe you can see, where the answers wait for me

maybe you can see from your house up there on the hill

I’ve got all these open jars full of space to fill and you’ve got the house on the hill.

10 Feb 2018 Poetry abuse, alive, blessed, choice, creation, dachau, dearmamarose, death, depression, europe, germany, healer, healing, health, holocaust, liberation, love, mamarose, medium, mediumship, poetry, space, spokenwordpoet, time, transition, travel, victim, victim mentality 0

In 2011 I visited Dachau Death Camp. I was backpacking through Europe with no phone, no internet, nearly no food or money, severely depressed and with a partner who was unable to offer emotional support. This experience brought me so much that I expect it will take me a lifetime to unpack it. Here is where it’s brought me today.

The Furnace.

I walked into the furnace and felt nothing.

Not the absence of anything, just the fullness of nothing.

I tried to stretch and absorb empathy from the walls – they’d been there, they’d seen it. They’d felt the heat and heard the screams. They knew what the mind went through at the moment of release.

…but there was nothing and no one to receive it.

They showed us photos of bodies piled to the ceiling in the room that we were standing in.

What separated me from them, what separated now from then?

The veils of time were thick.

I wanted to cry… so badly. I wanted to release by choice what they released by force.

I wanted to choose to feel again. I wanted to bring choice to that space.

I wanted to choose to honor them.

I wanted to sleep, I wanted to give up. I thought of them and how they never gave up.

I was starving and I wanted a fucking sandwich. I thought of them and how they never got a fucking sandwich.

I was dying and I felt as dead as them.

But I was not dead… there is an unmistakable feeling to life and it was in me – the awareness of nothing was enough.

I gathered my broken pieces and I took them home.

A home I wasn’t sure I’d reach again… a home they didn’t.

And now as I sit in comfort and the nothingness that I was has turned into everything that I ask for, I ask:

What message do you have for me, I am humbled by your discourse.

And I receive;

“We were black and white and Gypsy, Jewish, Muslim, Christian. We loved men and we loved women and we loved people and we loved our families and we loved each other and we were loved and we died for love. They say we died for hate but we died for love. We didn’t die for nothing we died for love. Live for love.”