it’s okay to think, I promise

stopping to think is simultaneously the best and worst thing I can do.
at night, or in the early morning, if I think about all there is to do the next day my heart will race, my eyes won’t close and I can’t breathe properly. I have to call on my practiced techniques to calm my [...]

countdown to landing

day one:
minor signs of alienation are already apparent. don’t let it get to you. they have a shared history, time together before you. don’t let it get to you. it’s not about you. it’s not meant to hurt you. you cannot control the lives and actions of others. you cannot expect them to be like [...]

scrawling

the pages the pages they fill
letters and symbols
tumbling like fever out of the life
they exist half in the brain
                     half in the pen
entombed on the sheet
alive for a moment
a parchment meterorite