The Crumbs They Call Affection
I ask myself today what’s changed? Heart beating with the same ache, People I’ve loved so long can’t reciprocate, And I settled for crumbs they… Read More »The Crumbs They Call Affection
I ask myself today what’s changed? Heart beating with the same ache, People I’ve loved so long can’t reciprocate, And I settled for crumbs they… Read More »The Crumbs They Call Affection
Dedicated to the men who want to have them all and commit to none Too shallow to put a woman first, some men never grow… Read More »Some Men
The fear of being stuck in life… It’s like looking around and just knowing, you were born to do more; you can do more than… Read More »The Fear of Being Stuck
I don’t know how or when it started the first time I told myself these lies, grown so tall it’s hard to find the truth… Read More »One More Night: Lies I Told Myself
Of all the things I could’ve wished for, I wished for one thing only: sleep. Not because the bags under my eyes, with every passing… Read More »Sleep — An Ode
Nothing worse to a writer than meeting blank pages on the daily and not meeting the rhymes or the lines she dreamt of on the… Read More »Ups, Downs and The In-Betweens
When I think back to all I’ve had and how I blew it and the things they ruined, and how hard it can be to… Read More »Pride: A Poem
“You miss him?” I tell them not, can’t miss what you never had. Never had a father figure, but never mind, mom was stricter in… Read More »Stories that Remain Untold
Be it the time of flowers Days of snow, When too much sunshine Darkens my glow Rain on my shoulders A punch in the gut… Read More »Fetal is Home — a Poem
One morning, I blinked and reality wasn’t any longer. “Fourteen days,” I was told. An early Spring break…I couldn’t be mad about that. But just… Read More »And Just Like That March
“Honestly, have you ever seen her get mad?” In my head, I’ve been true to myself. In my head, I smiled only when I meant… Read More »A Clearer View
My closed eyes won’t let me see what’s right in front of me, but will navigate deep into the what-used-to-be. My attempt to drop the… Read More »One Lie at a Time