facade:

facade:

Facade: Do you really want to know why I hate talking to people? it is because people are content to accept my facade and never truly dig deeper. They see a happy girl but never question the scars on my arms, the pain in my eyes, the ache beating in my chest. When there are [...]

Horoscopes:

Horoscopes:

Horoscopes: Whenever we would sit around and read horoscopes, we would gasp and cheer at what the stars foretell. Such faraway beings that burn brighter and brighter, when you would tell the story of mine, I wished I could suddenly combust into bright, unwieldy lights. I was destined to be a scorpio: a passionate being [...]

dust

dust

I once trusted you to shield me from the storm: the unrelenting chaos that is my psyche. You failed. You retracted your talons and took off. A lone wolf, a kamikaze solider in the Congo fog of night, you surrendered my trust and left me to wither and die. I called out to you; my [...]

aloe

aloe

When I find myself bored, unsatisfied, It is consequence that I also find myself helplessly in love. An allusion of the fateful fall, I idly daydream, dangerously imagine myself in the arms Of someone who is undeserving. The wispy dreams are hazy at first, The golden-touched skin And the puckered lips Of sophomoric ideology, I [...]