Four months ago, I wrote about a boy I met. On the 30th of December, we will have been together for three months. He’s across the sea, back in Spain; while I remain in the cold of New England. It is snowing right now. Snowfalls were admired from a cold window pane, separating me and […]
Category Archives: Poems
Woman. I’m a woman. An 18 year old woman–sounds like an oxymoron. How can I be a woman? There is so much I have yet to see, feel, hear, taste. I’m still lost. I carry my background and past like a bullet vest. How can I desire to live the adventure I want when I’m […]
The solid white and blue brick, Three bold words guard the entrance of the stretching road fingertips split into dashes of the pedestrian walk way. From the entrance if one could walk straight through all the metal lockers, cubes of air classrooms, growing flames of personalities They would stumble into the road that wraps around […]
I woke with a start and my vision fell apart. A new day had already begun although the world before me was still dark and the sun was still out of sight. Exhausted and worn, because even in sleep I was awake. From reality I couldn’t escape. It twisted into a worse fate with darker […]
I sat in the wooden chair silent and careful not to stare. Chatter dully rang around us but all I could truly hear was one voice my own, loud and clear. The brightly lit cafe stood out in the cool, dark night as I took a chance and a blind leap. For fear fled some […]