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    February 11, 2018 / No Comments

    I’m merely exploring souls & cities
    From the vantage point
    Of my ivory tower built,
    Built with the assistance
    of Opium

    That’s enough, isnt it?

    Jack Kerouac
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    February 10, 2018 / No Comments

    And all the restless energy floating through me keeps connecting to him and coming back twice as strong, like we’re this closed circuit, and the longer we stay linked, the more powerful the pull between us becomes.

    Cora Carmack
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    February 7, 2018 / No Comments

    I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
    I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
    I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
    and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

    here is the deepest secret nobody knows
    (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
    higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
    and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

    I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

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    February 4, 2018 / No Comments

    Fighting your inner demons,
    Fighting that inner war.
    Not knowing what’s wrong or right.
    Asking yourself, “How much more?”

    How many more endless questions?
    How many more sleepless nights?
    How much more can I take,
    Of life and it’s enternal fight?

    Trying to heal your pain.
    Somehow you can break the broken.
    People come but never stay.
    No one listens to what you’ve spoken.

    Love. Trust. Safety. Hope.
    It’s gone and fled away.
    You have nothing left to your name,
    But the scars that always stay.

    Inferiorty. This is all you feel.
    No matter what you do,
    You’re never good enough.
    And no one has a clue.

    No one knows,
    How you tear yourself apart.
    They don’t know
    About your abused heart.

    They’ll never understand
    The hate for yourself.
    They’ll never see
    Your mental health.

    You want to believe.
    Believe you’re worth something.
    Believe you’re a good person.
    Believe you’re worth loving.

    But the louder voice denies this.
    It tells you no one cares.
    That you’re a terrible person.
    All you’re doing is wasting air.

    Inner demons, inner war.
    I’m in the middle of it all.
    Pulling myself together,
    Knowing all I’ll do is fall.

    Celine Alesha Chadee

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    February 4, 2018 / No Comments

    It’s like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing.”
    “So, exactly like a cotillion,” said Simon.

    Cassandra Clare
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    February 3, 2018 / No Comments

    I want to see you.

    Know your voice.

    Recognize you when you
    first come ‘round the corner.

    Sense your scent when I come
    into a room you’ve just left.

    Know the lift of your heel,
    the glide of your foot.

    Become familiar with the way
    you purse your lips
    then let them part,
    just the slightest bit,
    when I lean in to your space
    and kiss you.

    I want to know the joy
    of how you whisper
    “more

    Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi – مولوی

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    January 29, 2018 / No Comments

    I promise you
    I will try harder
    to be better.
    I
    have battled with things
    inside me
    for longer than you know;
    I do not know
    what they are
    or why they are there,
    I only know
    that they feel
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    January 28, 2018 / No Comments

    Love arrives
    and in its train come ecstasies
    old memories of pleasure
    ancient histories of pain.
    Yet if we are bold,
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    January 27, 2018 / No Comments

    The thing is, it’s really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs–if yours are really good ones and theirs aren’t. You think if they’re intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don’t give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do

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    January 23, 2018 / No Comments

    We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.

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