Maybe I was never supposed to find love. Maybe love wasn’t in the cards for me. Maybe I was supposed to find it in movies and books, where the boy meets the girl, and they fall in love, and live happily ever after. Maybe I’m supposed to find love in the eyes of others. Maybe I’m never supposed to f...Read more

I grew up as the girl who felt it all— from sadness to nostalgia, the one who cried at the end of a movie, or because she saw someone begging on the side of the road. They told me the world would eat me alive if I kept carrying these foolish feelings, that there was more pain waiting than I could i...Read more

saw her in the midst of it all. i saw how breakable she was, how full of life she was— and i wanted to break her. i wanted her to feel how i felt. so i dressed in angel’s clothes, wore the brightest smile, and she didn’t even bat an eye. part of me almost felt bad. she expected the devil to have h...Read more

I hope karma skips you. And if you ever have a daughter, I pray she never meets a man who mirrors her father. I hope that when the cake cuts pink, her fate isn’t sealed like mine was. I hope she never has to feel the weight I carried— the betrayal I endured. I hope she meets a man who is kind, gen...Read more

I realized something today— We’re all someone to somebody. I wouldn’t have made it without Those someones in my life Who showed up randomly. I almost killed myself. Clearly, I didn’t—I'm still breathing. But if you asked me the same question Two years ago, I’d say I didn’t deserve love— I deserved...Read more

The story of us We were two naive kids With too much trauma needing an escape From life I was the dumb girl who overshared You were the one who couldn't communicate Then she came into the picture she had you mesmerized while I died Even with her in the picture we both fell in love one of us fallin...Read more

I met my younger self for coffee today. She was twenty minutes early. I was ten minutes late. She ordered a Dr Pepper. I got a double espresso latte. I smiled and asked how she was, knowing deep in my heart she was doubting if she even wanted to live. She plastered on a smile. Said, “I’m okay.” A...Read more