Why is it that no matter how many positive things happen I take them with a grain of salt? I can never let myself be truly happy because either I feel like I don’t deserve it, or I feel like there’s a boogeyman waiting on the other side to do his best to snatch it … Continue reading I’m Okay… For Now
Sometimes I let fear of the unknown control me. It’s like there’s a boggart in the closet and I’m afraid to go in there because I know he will assume the form of my biggest anxiety, because I know I will wilt in front of him, and I can’t admit to being that weak. Weakness … Continue reading The Irrationality of Fear
I grew up with women, a whole gaggle of them if you asked me back then because it felt that way. From the moment I emerged from the womb I was surrounded by enough estrogen to choke a horse (imagine that), so I’m no stranger to emotion, to such honest emotion that I’ve been comfortable … Continue reading A Sort of Baptism
Black ice Dark as night Thick like tar Consume my soul Rend me apart Fill me whole Then disappear Leaving scars Red and angry Blazing hot Like salty tears Rolling silently Into oblivion This obsidian Flowing like waves Leading away From innocence My ravaged spirit Left to decay Then trapped in ice So I can’t … Continue reading Black Ice
The serial killer’s neighbors always say, “he seemed like such a quiet guy.” Yeah, he was quiet because he didn’t want anyone noticing that he was taking bodies back to his house in the dead of night and burying them in the backyard. The neighbors never say he was a disturbance, that he ever made … Continue reading The Quiet Ones
Dear Journal, You know how it is when you haven’t thought about something for a while, and then someone shows up from that same time period and you’re thrust back into it? And it usually happens with negative things instead of positive things, like some kind of twisted irony machine tuned to a certain frequency … Continue reading Dear Journal: Streaks On My Heart
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