“Your 20s are your screw up years. No one has it together yet…” –everyone It took 25 years for me to not care what people think of me. I wish I would’ve know it was so peaceful. I love who I’ve become and I know it took a while to get here. It took a…
Category: iWrite
& Metaphorically Speaking
He loved me like someone repeatably stabbing me in the heart and then kissing me like everything would be okay. I’d cry sometimes, and like a junkie I’d come back screaming, “I can fix this.” As an optimist, I sure don’t know when to give up. Love is the strongest narcotic and the only rehab…
Six Words
“He likes me, broken and all.”
Six Word Story
I used to genuinely smile more.
Yesterday’s Poem
It’s been two years, three months and five days since our last breakup. We were for real this time. This time there wasn’t any “I’m sorry” or “We’ll do better next go around.” We just gave up. We gave up on the daily texts and the hourly how was your day recaps. What we had…
& Unwritten
I thought about calling but I knew your wouldn’t answer. I keep you in prayers before I fall asleep. I still think about you dream about you as if we still speak. It weird because even when I don’t like you I love you. I’ll never be able to give my everything to someone the…
& Seven Years
It’s been two years and three days since the last time we were on. We were a disaster but When it was good we were bomb Oh how we’d stay up and talk All night long Our love was like drugs We were hooked and It had us strong. Seven years, three months two days…
& Texts From Last Night
Texts from Last Night I love you. I miss you but I don’t want you back. Not being friends is hard. Maybe we could work if we tried again. Maybe we unraveled again because we had too many loose threads. Too many secrets, too many people, not enough of “I’ll try.” “I’ll trust you. We’ll…
& Generational Stairway
Here’s a piece of non fiction, I wrote senior year in college. This is still one of my favorites. I don’t write a lot of non fiction but when I do it makes me feel so transparent. I wouldn’t have started writing non fiction if it wasn’t for my professor who pushed and pushed. I…
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