No one gives a damn about a poem until they need a poem — Omotara James. No one writes a poem because they want ...Read more

Get used to being carried everywhere. Sunlight and rain are both your companions. Sometimes you'll be forgotten. Sometimes you'll become the one every...Read more

I am not meant to be consumed in sips. Swallow me whole.

when my eyes blinked open, I saw the rain had given way to cotton candy clouds and golden sun spilled inside to decorate my floors. I walked to the ri...Read more

There are nights when I wonder why we continue living when the ending is always the same. We spend years trying to become someone, trying to leave a...Read more

one of these things is not like the others and i am afraid that it's me doing my work with borrowed hands wondering if my name is on the wrong list un...Read more

I stood at the edge of laughter, holding a heart full of hope, believing there would be one place where my name would be spoken with warmth. Instea...Read more

you ask me if I am the type of girl who cries on her birthday and all I can think is that I am 23 and I am 21 and stopped talking to my best friend a...Read more

I thought I knew every door. I had memorized every hallway of my own house. Yet it is too vast, too full of hidden rooms a labyrinth with endless path...Read more

Last August was a sauna. Hot, heavy, healing. Devotional. Love and guilt and grief and the way I would count your freckles while you slept. I always ...Read more

To breathe without paying a price. To touch grass soft as velvet. To stand upon a ground that never slips away. To see more clearly than any camera le...Read more

Too much rain falls In the hills Where dreams keep Chasing And you see Them drowning

Too much rain falls and My heart catches raindrops Into its unseen streams. There is no where to go When the sky weeps, Only grief to sit with And pr...Read more

Une promesse, un chemin Une caresse, un refrain Les rayons du soleil Et un éternel someil Une douce lumière qui s'étant sur le marais Elle le regarde...Read more

Je lace mon masque avant le premier pas, Je joue la scène, l’air léger, presque beau, Un sourire accroché pour cacher l’éclat, Qui trahit ce que...Read more

Cherry blossoms I don't know how You get so obsessed Over these little flowers Zoom onto them And watch the rain drop Slowly slide off Go for a walk...Read more

Maybe all i need is a warm palm on the back of mine, Whispering reassurance in my ear, Telling me it's ok to fear Telling me it's ok to make bad d...Read more

The canvas has frozen, and my brush has grown too stiff. Even white has become worn, and colors no longer bring joy. An art that turns blue into gray...Read more

I will carry you until it's gone. Gone like the rainbows I saw. Gone like the wind that blew through my clothes. Gone like the pain that you left me ...Read more

love if only you knew how reckless my love is. in the midst of a storm i will become wind and i will carry you in my arms until we reach the quiet. n...Read more