It took a decade of frustration but all your indecisive ways were a blessing in disguise I’d try and I’d try to get you to love me the way that I loved you the most but I was asking something of you that you couldn’t give. Not even big things just flowers, “Thinking of you,”…
Tag: life
& Happy Mom’s Day
Love my mother so I wrote her a poem. Every year I write her a different one. This year’s just came with a slideshow. Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there. 🙂 She’s my first best friend. I didn’t pick her, she picked me. She’s changed my diapers, wiped my snotty nose and…
& Metaphorically Speaking II
Your love constantly pulled at my heart strings creating an array of knots that took me years to untangle. How did we get so intertwined… Your love was like constantly trying to swim upstream without a paddle with a block anchored to my foot exerting all the energy in the world yet getting nowhere Why did I…
& Direction
Dear High School Senior, You”re probably finished or scheduled your SATs and you’re excited and or nervous about finishing high school. Excited because after twelve years, you’ve finished high school and nervous because you know that you have no idea what’s ahead but you do know everything is going to change. College is cool but it’s…
& All Swiped Out
You shouldn’t be able to shop for a soulmate the same way you find your next pair of shoes. — Me (In a recent conversation with my best friend) Recently, I was thinking about online dating again and as tech savvy and innovative as I consider myself, I just can’t get down with it….
& 11:11
It’s 11:11 and instead of making wishes I’m up smiling thinking about the art that’s gonna be bomb when I’m done processing the hurt you put me through …again. I thought we were done with the back and forth the junior high games… Why can’t you make up your mind Why are you so freakin’…
& Bound to Be
I do not remember life before writing. It’s always been a constant in my life. Growing up I was always drowning in a sea of books. The Braddock Carnegie Library was our afterschool program and our summer camp. During the school year they helped us with our homework and in the summer they taught us…
& Chess
We’re like a game of chess and instead of protecting our Queens, we’re protecting our hearts…again. Because the scariest thing about loving someone is they not only have the power to make you smile from your soul but the have the power to break every being of your spirit. You move one way, I move…
& Happiness Hunting
First and foremost, Happy New Year! The first post of the year is always the hardest but I figured I’d tread on something lightly like New Year’s Resolutions. If you ask me the age old question, “Where do you wanna be in five years?” The answer has always been “happy.” Life is all about discovering…
& This Christmas
My Auntie Kitty always has at least two Christmas trees and more than two dozen people in her house. Christmas is her holiday. My mother’s is the fourth of July Thanksgiving is always a surprise here lately. “It’s too much food. Too much money.” 10 children and 28 adults That’s the count this year for…
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