The Shadows Between Us

by Tricia Levenseller

The poets can say whatever they damned like. A woman’s worth is not decided by what’s between her legs but by what is in her mind.

“I think that when you care enough for someone, you reach a point where it’s far more painful not to have him at all than to have him and risk losing him. You realize the risk is worth it. Because happiness, however short-lived, is always worth it.”

A woman is not defined by what she does or doesn’t do in the bedroom.

I realized that words can be so hard to find when spoken aloud in the moment. But writing? It gives me the time to articulate just what I feel.