About Notes App Poetry

Eight years spent in a relationship with a man from whom I needed to hide my words.
My journals weren't safe from his eyes and my thoughts weren't safe outside of me.  Tucked away in a folder, hidden several screens back in my phone, my Notes app was filled with me.  

Between notes tracking times and conversations and happenings to validate my reality, notes full of paragraphs I never texted, and quiet declarations that my will to keep living was diminishing daily...
there were poems. 

The moments I stood in line at the grocery store, pumped my gas, waited at the DMV, or sat for jury duty, or just sat in a parking lot wondering if I would make it through this, I put my words in this little, unassuming app. 

Now, I am freeing them.
Giving them away, giving them a home, giving them a life. 
I am doing the same for myself. 

C. Gaia