• I LOVE YOU.

    I LOVE YOU.

    Just in case nobody else has said it today, I wanted you to know how much I love and adore you. Always.

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  • LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL?

    LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL?

    Students stand in a classroom, place their hands over their hearts, face the flag, and loudly proclaim, “One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” This well-known statement wraps up the United States pledge of allegiance and serves as a proud declaration of the American spirit. It is a bold claim considering

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  • P O E M

    P O E M

    I’m blesseduntil you turn your back again. I disappear in the blink of an eyethat’s been blind for a long time. Secrets hidden in the spilled bloodof a not-so-random stranger. Whose grace I no longerfind myselfencumbered with. Summer of 2019

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  • 19,794 DAYS

    19,794 DAYS

    Saturday, February 24th, 2024. My 19,794th day on this planet. What do I intend to do with it? The only things in my life today that are causing me pain and sadness are things that I choose to hold onto. The things I think about, grow. The people who want to be in my life,

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  • WHEN DARKNESS COMES

    WHEN DARKNESS COMES

    So I fell down onceand I took you all the way downwith me. You told me you wanted me to be thereand I dared you to be there so you told me to be thereand for once, I was. What a long trip downand filled with many facesand so many placesand bottles and forgotten cornersof

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  • E X C E R P T

    E X C E R P T

    I wish I had a few grand love stories to tell you all.   Part of me wishes that more than anything. I imagine I have one, possibly two, stories about the ones who “got away.”  To be honest, I’m not sure that I believe in that type of thing anyway. To consider that “he” got “left” “back

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