Dissociation of a Writer 2

August 19, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

I can’t experience life. My grandma passed away a year ago and although I cried, in the back of my head I couldn’t stop thinking about how these emotions I was experiencing would make a good poem one day. My boyfriend was having a very serious conversation and I wasn’t paying attention because I liked […]

Dissociation of a Writer

August 18, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Often times when I find myself crying after a horrible break up or a reminder of something sad, there is a little voice in the back of my head telling me to be observant, live it out, experience the emotions, no matter how much I don’t want to because somewhere, somehow, I might be able […]

A Masterpiece

August 11, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

She was art. He was rain. They are nothing.

sometimes i wonder

August 9, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

why i write. why i sing. why i try

Our History

July 29, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

We are born from water, made of stars.

Paper Hearts

July 26, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

A stranger once gave me a paper heart on my way to class.

Dear Reader

July 18, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

I hope one day your see yourself as beautiful.

Questions

July 16, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Is your daughter depressed? My mom’s friend asked her

What Can I Do?

July 8, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

sitting, on my phone, reading instead of out in the world, speaking up.

Privilege

November 29, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Written: 9/19/17 Published: 11/29/18 I used to be jealous of the girls that got ‘knocked-up’ in their teens. I used to want to be the one who struggled through life yet barely got above their parent’s income. I used to wish That I was homeless, poor, black, or uneducated. I used to yearn for […]

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