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Ripping Off The Words
What's a good picture for you? mine is the one in which I’m the happiest. it’s fascinating how the parts of us that we don’t appreciate enough are the parts most worthy of appreciation. and I don't just mean appearances.
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Resilience
To the one who has arrived Bringing lucidity to an interrupted- And wandering life That was once tribulated, But is now contented
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Sane
SANE: A word I have never quite been acquainted with. I was brought up by someone who physically used my head to punish the walls of the house she found no peace in. How could “sane” possibly live here? Blindfolded by my desire to run from that hellhole, I thought the only road leading to happiness is marriage.
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Pocrescophobia
A number is just a number, Which is a popular belief. Simple as that- Yet when you saw a different number on the scale- it changes everything.
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Trust Your Gut
I was accepted into the doctoral program and was offered a full scholarship. Most people would have immediately accepted. But I didn’t.
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Paper Dreams
Turning from the busy conundrum of a dream full of lies, A bittersweet goodbye; Passion so strong Somehow feels so wrong, A meaningless feat, Undeniable defeat;
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Why You Shouldn’t Bury Your Past
One of the biggest lies we are told is that it is possible to live fully in the moment, but the truth is we never can.
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On Autism With My Son, Waiting for the Train
Together, down a level he’s overly tense- Among the “normal people” with their loud staring silence...
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In The Car on the Way to the Hospital
When he circles the roundabout, I am pressed against the car door, And it starts to hurt again.
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Coping With Lost Time
When I first started college, I always believed I would make something of myself. I would get a degree, see the world, and become a successful journalist. I had it all planned out, and after the toll my harrowing years of high school took on me, I felt adulthood had something better to offer mentally. I soon had reality hit me like a freight train. People always ask: “What would your younger self think of your current self?” It’s a question I can never answer easily. You might as well be asking me to find the circumference of the moon. Even then, I feel like I’d have an easier time…
