"Boiling Point"

By Lani Hankins

We wreck other people
when we ourselves
have been wrecked
believing others
need to feel
what we have felt
But in our attempt
to make them understand
we drive them away
and in our loneliness
we only simmer.

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Lani Hankins is a former Army female engagement team member and a veteran of Afghanistan. Follow her here. Listen to the Savage Wonder episode with her here.

She blogs and podcasts at Kruse Corner.

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Bottled Away: Confessions of a Struggling Veteran by Lani Hankins

The Gaslit Heart: A Story of Service and Survival by Lani Hankins

Eased Pain: Poems About Surviving Domestic Violence by Lani Hankins

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