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  • Dec 4, 2014

    It’s often that I find myself scrolling through a random person’s social media and realizing I know all about them, but they know nothing of me, let alone my existence.

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  • Dec 4, 2014

    The ocean’s typically blue but in places it’s green and brown and unattractive. The metaphor of an ocean is meant for sadness, but sometimes it’s about your unattractive behavior and how you handled certain situations.

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  • Dec 4, 2014

    You should definitely publish one of your books! I would love to read it!

    Ha! Thanks. When a traumatic event happens in my life I generally write a book based on the essence of the situation. My poetry is personal but for me it’s different. I can warp words, bend meanings and only I truly understand what they mean, yet my books are different.

    The only one I’d likely publish is the lunch with my ex series, which is titled Lunch. It’s a coffee table book with the complete conversation. A few people have read it and said it’s really heavy, but I should publish it. In my opinion, just really dramatic and probably completely unnecessary, but an interesting conversation piece. So, ha, maybe one day. 

  • Dec 4, 2014

    Your writing is beautiful! I love writing books, but I never seem to finish what I started because because I get bored with the idea and I get so many new ideas and just have to get them down. Any tips on how to finish something I started?

    Thanks! Honestly… I’m the worst with this. I have a few hundred drafts on here and a few thousand on my phone. I’ll write, write, write and just stop — when it stops flowing, I stop. I pick up later (there’s generally always a later) and continue.

    When you have an idea, just go for it. I’ve written a few books (not published) and a couple I’ve never finished. I write to understand situations, not necessarily to finish, so when I get what I wanted, that’s generally the end for me. In my opinion, it’s basically just the mindset and end purpose of what you wanted to gain from whatever you’re writing.

    Hope that helps somewhat! lol

  • Dec 3, 2014

    a mind of its own

    the moist droplets of a warm serenity
    how i was warned by the bask, the dark of all his cracks
    the eve in the night, the recluse of sunlight
    use of fire and division to create diversions

    an image in the rough and eyes with green of envy
    from side to side and lathered through the middle
    spread in a bed full of lies
    used blue skies to disguise fright from shine

    a constant need for beginning, to hide from the truth of his dusk
    the darkness swarms and warns from a distance
    coming and going and traveling at the speed of light
    causing and living in a world full of smite

    it dies and lives and comes again
    exists in the new and hides in his brain
    he can’t foresee, but his power of pain never leaves
    storms in the night and lives in his pores
    comes and goes and cries as he envisions

    a plead for love, someone to care for
    but he’s unconscious to affection and lives in seduction
    has a soul so opaque that leaves his heart out at sea
    always wandering, wading and waiting as his subconscious ruins his emotions and twirls his lust for love behind shaded trees

  • Dec 3, 2014

    Don’t fall in love with any street light at every intersection.

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  • Dec 2, 2014

    I never wanted you to love me, I just wanted you to understand how much I loved you.

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  • Dec 2, 2014

    I’m younger than you, but my soul has been there and it lived there, and I know how it feels to be where you are.

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  • Dec 1, 2014

    all to dust

    soaking with
    hands sewn to hips
    lips blacked from a deathly kiss
    a treasure in open water
    fears slowly follow

    i wander and wade at sea
    death soon to be
    cursed from the slaughter
    the water boils
    life becomes hotter

    the blizzard will soon arrive
    coldness too icy to get by
    sliding on fright, on past light
    the shade of night
    so cold and hollow

    the pale of white
    clouds shaped of eyes
    icicles of daggers
    and the snow of our toxic youth
    intertwined with a mud too soft to get through

    we walk with a limp
    unlike the first with steak and shrimp
    i pace with truth and trust
    but eventually all goes to dust

  • Dec 1, 2014

    You never broke my heart. You just took it away.

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