12/03/99
listening to you is
relief.
pain flows freely from me,
i feel i hurt i bleed
i sink into myself,
into things and people who have hurt me,
i need i hope i love
i die a little
and then i am reborn.
(this,
after listening to a live broadcast of tori amos
playing in a small venue, just her and that piano--
she once again moved me to tears
and this was all i could come up with to express it--
my overflowing emotions, my release,
my me, surfacing again
and strong.)