I made your bed, just like I have for the last half-dozen days. The matress, a little extra air. The comforter first. Then the flannel sheet and the pillow. I didn't realize how warm the sheet really was, since I always just cuddled against you, leaving it between us. I laid down ( Read more... )

"I'm sorry," he says, and though I do not want him to hurt, what can I do for myself? The needles of cold shoot through my heart from the barbs, down through my arms and into my hands every time I brush my hand against him. And I cannot seem to stop myself. I want to touch him, to feel him. I want to heal him, to help him. I want to love him the ( Read more... )

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apologies for so blatantly taking Ms. McLachlan's words, but there are none that I may force past these fingertips that are more accurate

Stupid, from Afterglow, Sarah McLachlan ( Read more... )

"But the worst of it is that it is just this contentment that I cannot endure. After a short time it fills me with irrepressible hatred and nausea. In desperation, I have to escape and throw myself on the road to pleasure, or if that cannot be, on the road to pain. When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the ( Read more... )

"The difference between flying and falling is all in how you land."TL ( Read more... )

At nights I lie awake and question the folly that is my life. The darkness holds no answers for me any more than the light does. My words are spent. I'm empty, hollow. So let me smile, and show me how beautiful the world can be, if only for a few moments of the day. I remember laughter. I only wish it lived longer.

~G. S.~

Dear Journal ( Read more... )

My Dear Dragon ( Read more... )

"Every girl fears of stepping into a dragon's den and being eaten." Part of a conversation of a different vein, but this set off all manner of threads of thought.I don't fear it in a traditional sense? That surface fear you get from an unknown around the corner. The fear of prey to predator. Not the surface way that you understand it initially ( Read more... )