Choosing Myself
He said, “I don’t get the way you tick; I don’t get how you click; with all the different people around, even they look up at you profound.” I laughed. “It isn’t hard to understand—all my life I wished I’d been a man. I’m not saying you didn’t have it hard, but not the same […]
I Live
I used to think that when my skin wrinkled and my hair turned thin and grey, I would find peace within. “I’ll be older then,” I said. “I’ll know the way of the world, and I’ll be at peace.” That was when I was young. I’m still young now—not even a quarter through life. But […]
I don’t want it anymore
I don’t pray anymore.I used to believe in the Father—my father that passed in the past—and then I believed in heaven,a hopeful cloud that didn’t last.I played a faithless symphony coldpraying to the god of death,now I don’t believe in anything at all,only one being, being myself. I was born as a parent;I don’t want […]
Survivors
They call us the survivors, the lucky ones with our inability to die, despite facing death in the mirror daily. And so we continue to survive, even when our hearts cry out in agony and desperately get so close to pulling the trigger and taking in one last breath. We live because we don’t know […]