If I lose my religion,
will I lose my God?
They say it’s a relationship
but I’m scared there’s a truth I forgot…
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Two Face
If you aren’t honest with yourself, how can you expect to be honest with others? For years you’ve looked in the mirror while wearing glasses with a certain prescription called “selective sight.” And you looked at who you wanted to be, a “slightly” more ideal version of who you actually are, and that’s who you decided…
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Spring Cleaning
Spring cleaning. Cleaning out relationships Clutter Crap Cleaning out the parts of my heart that ought never turn back Cleaning out the crevices & corners of my brain Cleaning out the calories that make me go insane Cleaning out the habits that don’t serve me any longer Cleaning out the wasted time and instead getting…
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How Can I Miss Heaven?
How can I miss heaven even though I’ve never been? It’s so clear and close to me when I close my eyes and breath in. The water moves in gentle tsunamis While the trees literally dance. The rocks will tell you stories. There’s no need for a second or third chance. People there aren’t crying…
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Will We Love Me?
Will you still love me with my surgery scars? Knowing I’ve been torn open and pulled apart? Will you still love me when the roof caves in? Once you find out where I dream of going and, worse, where I’ve been? Will you still love me when I’m not nice? When I have bad…
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Humanity’s Trigger Words
I think I’ve found two phrases that trigger pain in everyone– “Too much,” and “Not enough.” I’m scared of being too much for you but also not enough. And scared that I find life too fascinating but what if I’m not fascinated by it enough? What if I love you too deeply? But what if…
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We Built a Shelter: My Story
The following is an introduction to a short story I wrote about processing the last few years of my life to help make sense of where I am now. If you’d like to skip straight to the story, start below the horizontal line. Enjoy! I tried my best to be as realistic as possible about…
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Since graduating college so far I’ve been able to learn so much about myself and it has been an incredible journey. I won’t even try to pretend it has been an easy journey because it was not in the slightest, but the things I’ve been learning about myself are so exciting that it makes the…
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Home Should Be Where the Heart Is
This is a poem I wrote in 6th grade that I found while rummaging through some old things. The colorful, (originally) three page, comic sans piece was one in a series I had written for school and it’s specifically meaningful to me because my teacher’s feedback would go on to keep me writing. She told me…
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