Let me tell you a little something about laughter:

Sometimes it’s all you’ve got; it’s all you’ve got to open your mouth and let out a sound. You can’t hold it but you can have it and that’s all the reason it’s so beautiful. It is not any kind of weight to carry like the sadness and the fear your hold. Those weigh heavy....

To this end

This deep breath, this gasp this drawing in. This sin, this giving in this transgressing. This rage, this page this release, this peace almost. This wreck, this sinking, this drinking drowning sorrows till sleep. This weeping child, this hard heart, these eyes these tears, these years lost in fears like running wild through forest. These...

Swallows, giants and hope

Swallows scatter across the ocean’s ceiling at the golden time of almost-night tempting the dark to snatch them in its jaws. Down below I am walking the streets of this sunrise city where sons rise and I stop to listen for the roar of smuggled drugs to muffle the sound of hungry stomachs, but instead...

If you’re hopeless broken anxious, I speak of what I know

If you sit now having the strength to do nothing else but read this, these words are for you. I do not promise to have the answers, I do not promise to fix you. I promise only to speak of the hope I know, I promise only to write truths that have carried me here....

Sit up straight | Wide awake and sleep walking

This is what a wake-up call looks like: Deep breathing. Hyperventilating. Wide eyed. Terrified. All things possible. Trouble. Spinning. Light sleeping. Eyes leaking. Excitement. Frightened. Possibility. Be anybody. Travel. Unravel. Cave in. Win-win. Considering. Limitless options. Weigh carefully. Numb. Undone. Crazy. Taste of insanity. Go. Grow. Pale faced. Rat-race.  Earth is a stage. New chapter....

This is where I need you now | A tale of tar and tears

Where darkness meets the end of a day that never seemed to end, that's where I need You now. Where orange street light meets tired skin, that's where I need Your hope. Where lowered head meets hands and elbows meet raised knees and hunched body meets curb, that's where I most need Your strength. Where...

November PAD Challenge 18 & 19 | Break faith

I love that these prompts in the November PAD Challenge have such a range - some are dark, some are funny, some are ridiculous, some make you think, others make you laugh. It's freeing to be able to write from any angle in any form. Today's are a bit darker - heavier, rather - dusted...

For you today

I held your heart today. I cried - for you today. I hurt - for you today. I carried pain - for you today. I fell - for you today. I screamed - for you today. I gave up - for you today. I lost sight - for you today. I wanted to love -...