Losing My Religion

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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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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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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Proud

It’s crazy how certain things can be so easy for one person and simultaneously so difficult for another. In that we often neglect to recognize the personal battles being faced by the people around us. Though this isn’t always negative, it is important to realize that the battles and victories you confront in the peanut…

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A Letter Writing Challenge

In high school I would get these terrible headaches and stomach pains that seemed to have no trigger. It turned out that they were a result of having pent up emotion that was taking a toll on my body. As a result, I learned that I needed to physically process emotions (particularly negative emotions) in…

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Pain

Pain pain go away, Come again some other day A day when I have strength to fight. A day when it won’t take all my might. Pain Pain, don’t come at all. If I had my way, I would never fall. Not today, not tomorrow, not any day soon. and I would be able to…

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I am afraid of you

I am afraid of you because you don’t have to do much to have power over me. A power that is strong A power like no other I didn’t have to know you long Your opinion mattered more than my own mother.   I am afraid of you for many different reasons. Will you leave…

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Another One Bites the Dust

As many of you know, after an arduous application process and multiple interviews, I’ve been waiting for the past few months to find out if I would be accepted into the Disney College Program– an internship that would greatly help me with many of my academic and career goals while simultaenously allowing me to live…

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The Life, Man.

To anyone who’s a little messy sometimes– Life man. It’s fricking crazy. From getting up in the morning to natural disaters, tests and work, and then you think about getting your masters… There are people dying left and right, and, still, the world, it spins. And here I am, trying to love and love and…

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The End is Not Near

I love you, I do Your life has value. Whether you believe it or you don’t, Whether you will see it or you won’t, The truth is clear to me that I love you.   And I know that this world hurts. The pain– it sears and burns. And you don’t see any light, Especially…

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