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THE GLASS CHILD
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

Author. Songwriter. Dreamer. Wanderer.

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6 Short Books To Read In Your 20s: On Solitude, Feeling Lost, and Finding Your Way

Feeling lost or behind in your 20s? Here are 5 honest, literary collections—from Mary Oliver and Rilke to Cheryl Strayed—on solitude, wandering, and quiet healing.

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Top 12 Mary Oliver Quotes And Poems

Possibly the most beloved poet in recent times... Mary Oliver. Astonished by life, simple moments, and quiet mornings. I've kept A...

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My Favorite Andrea Gibson Quotes & Poems

Andrea Gibson quotes to comfort aching hearts or lonely days. “I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.”

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My favorite Charles Bukowski poems

My favorite quotes and poems by Charles Bukowski: one of my favorite writers.

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Selected Writings ....

5am
again,
drunk on someone else’s love,
or couch,
and I’ve never felt more at home.

I fled myself,
from the life I’ve built
because I’ve been inhabiting routines I don’t want to stand for.

Inhabiting skin I’d rather shed
but still took on
like a soldier serving his country,
for that’s what they told me to do.
But I was not
strong
or wise,
but young and foolish,
for what is this thing? Trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance,

and I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organised drawers.
I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
at night when no one else is alive,
or awake,
however you choose to see it,
and I live in my own flames.
Sometimes burning too bright and too wild
to make things last
or handle
myself or anyone else
and so I run.
Run run run,
far and wide
until my bones ache and lungs split
and it feels good.
Hear that, people? It feels good,
because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
and I wish to do with it exactly as I please,
and living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times,

because I never volunteered to take this on.

The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,
the forever on going task of explaining this and that,
and why I don’t want to look like this and
be like that
but still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.
If this is the place I’ve been given, I’m sure as hell gonna make this work.

So I fled the me that was never really me and I’m on my way. To newer lands and uncleaned streets
for I’ve had enough of childish safety in comfort.
Enough of all telling me to look and do, like this and that,

and I never meant to please anyone but myself
and you can call me selfish,
throw words like knives in the dark but I will not listen,
for not listening to sharp words brought me to where I am today
and I believe in the path I’ve been given. If my only task in this life is to walk it,
I surely will walk it
prouder than anyone else.

If this is the path I’ve been given, I will walk it
prouder than anyone else,
for no one else can.

// from my book You’re Doing Just Fine ☾

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Travel Essays on Leavings and Arrivings

To thank you for letting me write and tell stories ... I'm giving you the digital version (pdf + epub) of my 2nd book Another Vagabond Lost To Love as a free gift, from me to you. If you like it, please consider picking up one of my other books as a physical copy in my store, or just simply share the ebook with a friend ♡

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