Is love real? If so what is it, how does a person know when they’ve fallen into it, and how is it possible to fall out? These are all commonly asked questions that relate to love, but their answers are rather complicated. It’s almost impossible to decode these answers from the messy aspects of l...
When I was younger, I wanted so badly to grow up and be just like the people around me. I looked up at these mature, sophisticated, well put together people and thought that that was how the world worked, that one day you just turn into that person, and the world helps you do it. In actuality though...
When he is beside me I feel loved, protected, and cherished.
Like a goddess in the sunlight is how I feel when he is beside me
When he is beside me my body relaxes and my heart softens.
I feel as though I could melt when he is beside me.
When he is beside me I can do anything!
I could climb ...
Living, breathing, alive
Clanking, and clowning
Do you hear it?
Five thousand pounds
The realization blasted into his mind
They cowered to their knees
Bellowed, crippled, hobbled, and sickened
Like wet tissue paper
An automobile collision in his head
I am the Emperor
It awed all
...
Buds begin to burst
Grass breaks through the snow
Plants stretch their arms
And wake from a long nap
The sun warms the air
Kids go out to play
Gardens blossom full of life
Spring it’s here...
Clear, hard, and cool
soundless to us
much activity on
the other side
Light flows through
rushing to get inside
full of action on the
other side, but
immensely quiet to us
On the other side
there is rustling,
waving, and swaying
millions of crisp
crunchy, and brittle
shapes
weightl...
I guess I should have been excited, but truth I left the hospital shaking still. All week I had been dreading today tossing and turning at night, and daydreaming during the day. I was terrified that the surgery would go wrong, the thyroid would have cancer, my big sister would have cancer. Friday, ...
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