Like the sand slipping through my fingers, there you go.. walking out of my life.

You promised to fill me up, yet you left me emptier than I was before.

My chest if hollow.

My heart has never been whole, yet it feels more shattered than it was before.

Where are you?

Where is the person I fell for?

You knew I craved to be loved, to be cherished.

I believed your empty words.

I let them consu...

Living with suicidal thoughts without wanting to die.

I don’t want to die.

I don’t have a plan.

I couldn’t do that to my family.

But the thoughts are there.

They’ve always been there.

Sometimes they’re so loud it’s like static in my veins.

Sometimes they take a back seat and let me breathe for a day or two.

But they never go away.

I wake up every morning and my first thought is, “fuck, here we ...

Pain in inevitable.

No matter who

no matter where

no matter when

we all experience pain.

Some choose softness.

Some choose revenge.

Transmuting the pain into light or dark.

Channeling the inner warrior to seek justice either within oneself or from the ones who wronged us.

Some feel they have a choice, and want to take the high road.

Some feel they don’t have a choice, and want to take...