Learn this Japanese word with us. •Mono no aware (物の哀れ): A deep, bittersweet appreciation of impermanence How many of you are aware of your imperman...Read more

"Allahu Akbar!"—I screamed, As I pulled the trigger, Sending bullets wrapped in terror, Shattering hopes, ending dreams, Executing Allah’s will— Or ...Read more

This is the last time I write about you. The last time I arrange all the words that keep pulling me back to you. You were everything I wanted, everyth...Read more

I struck up a conversation in a park, A stranger sharing the seat, The sun is setting and just about to get dark, They sounded timid and meek, We spok...Read more

I feel like my wisdom is fading by the waste side I have admired the illusion I have listened to it I have felt it But one part of me does not believe...Read more

An aged traveller, Moving through a vast expanse, Empty and chaotic afar, The traveller casts a wide glance Emptiness speckled with shimmer, Following...Read more

*Never knew my love for you was this strong Until I found myself loving you more Even when you're gone. Never knew my love for you was this real Unt...Read more

What eyes have cast a bad spell On me. I do not know. I stand in front Of the mirror often and smile. What shadows have colored My beliefs. I do no...Read more

I gazed upon it's somber hue, Old hate and purple spewed, The wind raged and billowed, With glass eyes askew. No one saw the crying widow, Accept I, p...Read more

Your sweet voice. Reminds me of the love that I've never felt. Since we met, I've been fool for you. Every single part of you. Curly brown hair, be...Read more

Give me a heart that can Bear longing and mind that Can handle parting. Give me legs that can endure This tread and shoulder That can carry intenti...Read more

I often think about how tightly we cling to things. To people, to expectations, to the fear of making mistakes. We hold on so tightly that sometimes w...Read more

Cold brown eyes Buried in snow Making life Harder Than it should go Little tiny touches Buried in lust Letting me live The forbidden love Sha...Read more

Years passed, yet tears were not paused. Hoping in a hopeless life Coping in an unfinished conversation Raging with a sugar talk Settling for the lit...Read more

The edge of a leaf, tip of a nose, head of a pen, the weight of grief…. bring it closer and closer until it dissolves into haze. “Ignorance is blis...Read more

With a faith so cruel to be endured, Cries so silent in the hurdles to be heard, The screams enchanting God's mercy, A minor struggling to survive wit...Read more

There's no dignity in lies but to you, I'll say anything you'd hear There's no pleasure in pain but for you, I'll take a blade to my ear There's no co...Read more

you're the gleaming sunshine in my heart of shadows, a ray of light in the 'dark' redirecting my power towards what i want, you're an ecstasy of joy,...Read more

My heart beats fast when I'm with you but I bury my feelings, it's all I can do, for you are my best friend, my closest ally and I fear confessing wou...Read more

The storm in my head ruins the garden that my soul holds "Why you left me?" This question always gives me warmth in the shivering colds I don't kno...Read more