it's in seasons of fleetingness that we have to remind ourselves to slow down, sometimes it physically hurts me to look at the sky and know that it will never look quite the same again. that this moment i'm existing in now is already beginning to slip away, and be replaced by another. autumn is … Continue reading Obligatory Poem About Autumn
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The Calm Collision
Will somebody explain to me why depression feels like sliding into a pair of sweatpants? A calm collision of comfort and despair, greeting me from the shadows. “It’s been a while” it seems to whisper, and I nod.It’s more a numbness than a sadness, the absence of emotion making a cave in my chest as … Continue reading The Calm Collision
Dissection of a Poem
It is a hard thing to write a poem. To take an emotion bigger than an ocean and make it fit inside a tiny little bundle of words. To define poetry, we have to look at the way it makes us feel, what it communicates. It does not state things point blank, it does not … Continue reading Dissection of a Poem
The Desert
The warmth whispers through my skin, flows into my blood, eyelids drift closed I have spiraled into a warm rest, like woolen blankets on my body, but there are no blankets only the sun and the weight of the world pressing against me. How long has it been since I felt the cool breeze on … Continue reading The Desert