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I have seen lands of green, oceans of blue. Watched the sun rise and set on opposite coasts, and cast wishes on midnight stars. I've felt the give of grass under my feet, and bathed in the heat of the unrelenting sun. I've befriended the crushing cold, of a mid-December snow. These, this, is what I … Continue reading Follow

Thrown back to me

2:38 am and I'm at work, refusing to sleep because of rationality. So I think of the tap of the keys and the smooth plastic underneath scarred skin and I find comfort in the reality that I am not special. I saw my vows today, and found myself wanting, because rationality has broken over and … Continue reading Thrown back to me

Rationality

6 years.... You still strike fear into me so deeply that I want to run and keep running. The distance between us is not enough.... You are the reason I'm afraid to come home. The thief, the conqueror, the beguiling tormentor that you were towards un-innocence and I turn to the reality I have now … Continue reading Rationality

The Noticing of the Unnoticed

"That’s how you know you've really got a home: When you leave it, there’s that feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." I never truly felt this of New York. Sure I miss my family and friends, but I never missed New York. I've never longed for it. But when I think on … Continue reading The Noticing of the Unnoticed