I woke up and could not feel my legs. Then I looked down and see a brown-haired woman in a blue blouse and jeans, asleep in a cold, blue hospital chair across from my hospital bed.

I looked at my surroundings and saw I was hooked up to all kinds of machines. Beep. Beep. Beeping is all I heard. I tried to get up but my legs wouldn’t move. I tried again. Nothing.

At this point, the lady with the br...

October 15, 2021. It was a sunny autumn day. The colours of the of the world had turned from a brilliant green to marvellous hues of red, orange and yellow. Jenny inhaled the crisp cool air. “I missed this”, she thought to herself. She sat down on the cold bench and reflected back to the time she was last here.

November 10, 2001. It had been a few months after the terrorist bombing of the World T...

With tears in your eyes

You wear a disguise

Please, Let me inside

Pain will subside

I feel my heartbeat

All the way to my feet

Sit down by my seat

You make me complete...

“Mommy, what is cancer?” Isabella whispers to her mother. With tears in her eyes, Jane looks at Isabella’s heart-shaped face , so full of confusion. She does not know how to answer her sweet little 4 year old. The father of her child, her husband, had passed at away that morning at the tender age of 37.

Their story reminds me of the day I received the same news about my own father. My father, w...

Laughter echoed about the room

But silence would deafen

Before the flowers bloom

The snow will fall

But I won’t be here

Not even at all

My mother’s hugs bring peace

But it won’t last long

Because of my race

They call me a dirty savage

But Ingawii says I am not

Maybe I am because of my brown face

My father’s face is hard

Trying not to show emotion

It cuts my heart like a shard

I will return one d...

A life on my own would be bizarre

A lonely person underneath a scar

A life on my own would be quiet

A stir crazy person without a riot

A life on my own would be depressive

A once happy person so amusive

A life on my own would not be my own

My happy place would no longer be known...