If you’re reading this, you’ve attempted suicide at least once

I know this is a bold and brazen statement to make when I know nothing of your life. Even if you haven't actually tried to kill yourself, I am certain the thought has crossed your mind because light can't always be seen from the darkness. This is not a judgement; this is for me as...

Beating, breathing

I can feel your heart beating beneath my fingernails, not in the way I'm breathing but in the way I'm beating sense into my brain. I have to believe. You are here. Creeping under my skin even if I haven't fully allowed you to claw your way in. Draw me into you. I stand between...

I am alive

Listen up! When you woke this morning, did you for one second think: I’m alive? Your lungs just kept breathing as you woke from sleeping, dreaming, now awake, alive. Say: I am alive. Say it like you mean it! I love that I can tell how long someone has been at a coffee shop by...

Crawling back to you | 500 Words on Grace

“I don't deserve this... Who would possibly want to love someone like me?” Those were the thoughts in my head then. I still remember it well and thinking back into that moment is as clear as looking into a mirror. It was 2009 and I was at a Summer Camp in South Africa. It was...

Here, now

Spoken word I performed last night to the song "Be Here Now" by Ray LaMontagne. ●●● She lay with her face pressed to the floor, crimson cries spilling from split lips. It was like she was hoping that if she pressed herself hard enough against it, the ground would make the pain stop, that his...

Angry, self-righteous baggage-carrier

You're taking medication for a condition no one knows about but you. You're angry at your best friend so you're not talking to them. You hate your job but slap on a smile and blame your boss for your unhappiness. You drink yourself to sleep every night so you don't have to cry. You're jealous...

Cut it out

I am a creative. You can never cut that out of me, no matter the pattern your scissors make.