Sights like these are the ones that leave my eyes wide, unable to look beyond the things in our world that make me ungrateful to be a part of it. I do not care to understand the hate or ignorance that portrays an ugly truth these days, so I choose sadness remedied by sleep.

The pendulum swings in American politics, and if you’re not careful to listen to policy over party, you might eventually end up on the wrong side.

I can echo my peers and write a piece for an audience who shares my opinions. I can continue to live in a bubble inhabited by like-minded people. So now I’ll ask a question to myself: what good does that do for the society I live in?

When the lights are off
you see her soul
and how abuse took its toll.

everything you believed back then
would only circle back 
and make you my friend

The light of the star that our world orbits couldn’t shine the sky the way she brightens up a room.
My goddess, my muse.

I do take solace in the fact that God is always ready to forgive me as long as I come clean to him, but I wish I was as welcoming to myself as God is with me.

In the pursuit of healing and growth, I’ve always found myself questioning the societal and cultural norms that are impressed upon us from the moment we’re born.