of a mad girl's love song
My own welcome into darkness happens twice a day. Once in the morning, I pop a little white disc into my mouth and let it dissolve under the tongue. Once in the evening, I pop a little white disc into my mouth and let it dissolve under the tongue. I am welcomed…
To those of you who don’t know me, I am a very… very organized and meticulous person. Whenever I sit down at a parent-teacher conference, they usually sound something like this: ME: I swear to GOD, if this teacher tells my dad I got ONE wrong on my bio test I will flip this table….
To the girl with the endless daydream, I want you to know that love is the highest power on this earth, no matter what others tell you, you must have faith in love. I want you to know that within love lies the ability to feel and it is through love that we find ourselves….
Nine hundred thousand people are reported missing and never found. My sister was nine hundred thousand and one. I remember searching all night – our father’s flashlight slicing through the trees, our mother’s cries engraved in my soul – never wanting to be heard again, yet every night muffled by her goose-down pillow. My sister…
I know that at seventeen-years-old, you feel alone and hated by the world, but the worst thing about hating yourself is that the person that you used to be hurts the person that you will be someday. It’s such a vicious and natural cycle that needs to happen for you to change. So keep…
When we two met shy and stern she and he were two lovers – unknown to them but known to all was the way she stared and the way he cared. When we two met quiet and quieter she and he a pair of friends destined to be. When we two met beauty and pain…
Love is a diamond love is a diamond beautiful and forever like my love for you love is Death Your smile hits my heart like a bullet to the brain i’m crazy for you a sliver Love or death shadows of lovers turn to ash towards love’s embrace silence falls away embracing Time dust…
To My Dead Lover, I’m not even sure if I should be writing this, we never did get a chance to truly love each other. But surely I get to love you, pieces of you, more and more through the stories Eleanor and Alicia tell, and even then, I feel farther away from you than…
You may knock me down with words bitter, cold lies You may shatter my world like glass But still, like a bird, I’ll rise Does my brevity surprise you? Why are your eyes cast down? Is it because I captivate the thousands With the light off a British pound? Just like the wind and the…
Throughout high school the appeal to read is lost between the rigidness of academia, the commitment to extracurricular classes or sports, and combined with the stresses of being a teen, books just don’t seem to fit in. The following list of books – which I recommend you read before graduation – may seem boring but,…