Loneliness is a drought of reassurance, and adjusting isn’t an absence of misery.

Time is an ethereal element as it is not seen. Time’s physical representations are a watch, or a clock but these objects don’t represent the actual humanity of a person’s passage of time, only a concrete representation of time’s movement ahead.

I admire my work. And I think, about the cookie-cutter conversations, the Hallmark birthday cards with nothing more than a signature, the way I was always told you can do better but never it’ll get better

I am someone who will always doubt my feelings first, thanks to the years of ignoring the rage I felt toward my own blood. I am someone who has the capacity to hate, almost as intensely as the capacity to love.

The chain that used to hold the pearls of my Nana’s neck has been ripped from her memory, where Pearl connects my middle name to her first name.