Ok, so through out my life I've always been different. Some have called me weird since I don't fall with in the norm of society, some have called me unique, and some just call that me. What ever you would call it, I'm that. Theres not another person alive that is at all similar to me, but I like it, this feeling of being unlike others. Read More »
Failure

Atheism... pure weakness
I'm so sick of all the people who casually rattle off "Oh I don't have a religion, I don't believe in God, I'm an atheist." As if to have any faith in a higher power is nothing but pure foolishness and ignorance. Read More »

I was wrong.
I was wrong. I don't know about everyone else, but it's definitely the hardest sentence for me to say. I have no problem saying that I'm sorry. I probably even say it too much. The probably comes with those, "I'm sorry, but....[insert lame excuse here]." I have a bad habit of becoming defensive when someone (my husband usually) calls me out on something I've said or done wrong. Read More »

Changes come (full version)
Changes come as leaves fall from the trees
Another way to "get through" to them
Said with a chuckle
Amongst coy responses
Told to say what we might take
In stride to look like cake
Like a bad plot in a movie
This talk cant be real
Are people really listening intently?
Look at their faces as these words
Jumble out of lips built for lies Read More »

Lobbyists in America
Policies are put into place by the government in order to help provide stability and safety for the mass public. In order to make sure that the people, corporations’, and organizations’ special interests are given to the governmental officials, people are hired to provide the officials with information. These people are known as lobbyists. Read More »

Unable to Find Safety: How the Foster Care System Fails its Children
Imagine that you are seven years old. You’ve just been removed from your home because your father beat you to the point of hospitalization. You’re all alone, with no one to turn to. A strange woman tells you that you are going to stay with another family for the time being. Read More »

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defiance
weed
red and gold
grandma
the written word
a breath obscure
(I need my fragments
I need to feel a steady base
I need to feel my shatter and ruin)
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attempt to revivify childhood:
laughter in tumbling torrents Read More »

Can you hear me?
To my mother
It just occurred to me that I’m trapped. I know what you’re thinking: What are you talking about? Well, let me tell you exactly what I mean. Read More »



