About Notes App Poetry

For most of my life, authentic expression was not safe.
Tucked away in a folder, hidden several screens back in my phone, my Notes app was filled with me.  

Between notes full of paragraphs I never texted, thoughts I was never able to express if I wanted to survive, and quiet declarations that my will to keep living was diminishing daily...
there were poems. 

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