Monthly Archives: April 2016

Let’s break free today. The entirety of the world craves for us to cover up our deepest afflictions with a beaming smile that ranges from one ear to the other. Each day, we are reminded that concealing means beauty. That faking joy is essential because showing suffering is undignified. They tell us not to showContinue reading “Fearful”

I am longing to get lost somewhere far, far away. Away from the routine hum of constantly pushing the snooze button. Away from the stress of misunderstanding and complication, the hunger of chaos and disorganization. I desire to grasp the entire world with my own eyes rather than with a microscope that can only beContinue reading “Flimsy”

I am having trouble writing. It is as if there is a wall of bulletproof glass separating me from the words that are dying to escape the metal cage they are kept in. I am the only one with a key sitting comfortably in the pockets of my jeans, but no matter how hard IContinue reading “Hostage”

So often we hear stories about love. It is a word that slips easily off the tongue as if it is made of only the finest silk. It has become a mumbled concept that we poke fun at, the joke someone tiredly decided to crack at a birthday party because everyone has already memorized theContinue reading “The Art of Adoration”

When the air around us becomes still, I begin the hunt for guarantees. Perhaps they are hiding, terrified, within the glimmer of promise that always seems to catch me moments before the fall. Maybe they are written somewhere inconspicuously, in the spaces between the fingers that hold me together better than gravity ever did. SavorContinue reading “Foreshadow”

We exist within— the hollow spaces between dissonant piano keys, love notes hidden under dusty bookshelves, the underside of the mattress that has never been dreamed upon. I gaze, not at you—but through you, translucent skin beckoning to encompass the opacity of my own being. I can no longer pass minutes without blurred illusions ofContinue reading “Background Noise”