30 September 2023

The lies [Content Warning - sexual assault]

The perversions of
a little knowing
by even less knowing
minds ...

- the claims - lies
known then and now
as such -

of two young men
that waking a sleepwalker
would kill them
even if
they were raping me …

- the lie that
women cannot rape men
that only women can test
the worth of their partner
(‘tis all or none,
in a fair world)


These lies and more
harm and scar
souls and hearts
of young and old
male, female and
those in-between
and all
our world.

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2023 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :)

23 September 2023

On conflict

A friend said
I don't like conflict ...
Nor do I
And that is why
I must from social media
fly. 

Each try starts well
but then declines
and I struggle
and am lost
in complexities of who and what
and how and why
and where I stand
- not to mention
where others say
I should. 

Time to reclaim
that part of day
that measure of spoons
that last clasp
of sanity.

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2023 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :)