im in so much pain that i cant even be poetic about it. i am hurt so bad that i feel myself shutting down emotionally, simply for preservation purposes. my body is telling my mind not to feel anymore for right now....but i feel so much its impossible to kill it all off. i just...i just know i did everything i could...more than i ever knew i could ( Read more... )

**If someone sang this to you one night, and then a few nights later told you they didn't love you anymore, what would you think? **BRIGHT EYES LYRICS
"First Day Of My Life"
This is the first day of my life
I swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach

Yours is the first ( Read more... )

Maybe its fitting that im sitting on what might be the 
death of the womb inside me,
waiting to be inhabitated 
like poor kids waiting for santa claus,
holding the applause for the happy ending.
My heart is bendng but I refuse to let it snap.
Is this the trap you've been baiting me for?
Let our insides do the talking.
While my cervix is stalking a chalk ( Read more... )

So I googled myself ( shut up, you know you've done it too). It wasn't the first time but it was the first time in a while. And do you know what's interesting? Every single entry about me on google has to do with the newspaper that I dedicated so much of my life to for three years. What does that say about my identity?

Once I decided that being a ( Read more... )

I was listening to AM 940 WINZ in my car today, the progressive Air America affiliate in South Florida, and I heard this news brief about a trial in the case of a Haitian girl who was smuggled into the country at age 14 by a Miami family and forced into servitude. Here is a link to the full story: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story ( Read more... )

I agree with Michelle Obama; for the first time in my adult life, I really am proud to be an American. For the first time in my life, I feel that choosing a president to vote for will not mean choosing for the lesser of two evils. I have actual admiration for both of the Democratic candidates after watching them debate tonight in Texas. Although I ( Read more... )

the moon changes ( Read more... )

Yes, it's my birhday. I'm 23, and for the first time that sounds old to me. It's funny because I'm a person who thinks age is more than just a number. However, maybe getting older isn't such a bad thing ( Read more... )

I want to hold the parts of you invisible to touch ( Read more... )

 Please pray, think positive thoughts, or whatever it is you do, for a very special, amazing woman who I have had the privelege of knowing and who now needs the peace to leave this world comfortably.

Thank you.