What Love Is
I told myself love was, love was.. self-destruction. It always had to be messy for me. Either messy or impossible. Impossible or forbidden. Forbidden or distant… I hid myself. From love. It’s different...
View ArticlePanic.
Sometimes I panic. Over the smallest thing; an unreturned text message, a missing earring. I panic and in that moment I see nothing but everything is wrong. I panic about all the moments I missed, all...
View ArticleHolding out Hope
Despite myself I was hopeful. Another love story that ended where is started, that never started really. Just sort of sputtered like a dead engine, sparked and sizzled then smoke. Just smoke. At least...
View ArticleNever Enough
Never quite enough for those I want to be enough for. Never quite enough for you. That “almost but not quite” could kill me. It leaves me breathless, and empty, and all levels of hurt. I try to be...
View ArticleRelief
I feel… relief Relief that I have grown enough to take the high road I feel relief that I have been strong But, the hurt too brings me relief. Relief in knowing I can hurt as well, and be stronger for...
View ArticleAffirmation.
You know I never really could describe what I loved about dancing. I thought it was the feeling, that I was just diving in; letting go of the reservations that I had created for myself, I thought it...
View ArticleCrash
and just like that, in blacked-out seconds I was forced into loneliness. I am lucky. I am breathing. I am happy. I am full of dreams and strength and memories. But forced into stillness, I realize how...
View ArticleHow To Deal
I like to think I’m defined not by the trials or successes of my life but by the way I deal with both. Sometimes I bounce back with genuine positivity. Sometimes I have to fake it till I make it, but I...
View ArticleThe Music Box Ballerina
When I was in high school I created a character. The music box ballerina. The music box ballerina was beautiful, perfect. However, she longed for more the perfection. So one night she escaped her box...
View ArticleKiss Me
Today I realized, I’ve never really kissed anybody. I’m not talking about a “never been kissed” Drew Barymore special. I’ve been kissed. A fair bit actually, by a surprising number of people. But I’ve...
View ArticleWhat Love Is
I told myself love was, love was.. self-destruction. It always had to be messy for me. Either messy or impossible. Impossible or forbidden. Forbidden or distant… I hid myself. From love. It’s different...
View ArticlePanic.
Sometimes I panic. Over the smallest thing; an unreturned text message, a missing earring. I panic and in that moment I see nothing but everything is wrong. I panic about all the moments I missed, all...
View ArticleHolding out Hope
Despite myself I was hopeful. Another love story that ended where is started, that never started really. Just sort of sputtered like a dead engine, sparked and sizzled then smoke. Just smoke. At least...
View ArticleNever Enough
Never quite enough for those I want to be enough for. Never quite enough for you. That “almost but not quite” could kill me. It leaves me breathless, and empty, and all levels of hurt. I try to be...
View ArticleRelief
I feel… relief Relief that I have grown enough to take the high road I feel relief that I have been strong But, the hurt too brings me relief. Relief in knowing I can hurt as well, and be stronger for...
View ArticleAffirmation.
You know I never really could describe what I loved about dancing. I thought it was the feeling, that I was just diving in; letting go of the reservations that I had created for myself, I thought it...
View ArticleCrash
and just like that, in blacked-out seconds I was forced into loneliness. I am lucky. I am breathing. I am happy. I am full of dreams and strength and memories. But forced into stillness, I realize how...
View ArticleHow To Deal
I like to think I’m defined not by the trials or successes of my life but by the way I deal with both. Sometimes I bounce back with genuine positivity. Sometimes I have to fake it till I make it, but I...
View ArticleThe Music Box Ballerina
When I was in high school I created a character. The music box ballerina. The music box ballerina was beautiful, perfect. However, she longed for more the perfection. So one night she escaped her box...
View ArticleKiss Me
Today I realized, I’ve never really kissed anybody. I’m not talking about a “never been kissed” Drew Barymore special. I’ve been kissed. A fair bit actually, by a surprising number of people. But I’ve...
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