I held your hand as you floated away from the earth, leaving me alone. I slid my pain into my pocket and placed that old mask on my face. Nobody will see that again. The air is thick with loss and my guilt is like swallowing grit as I climb out of the hole I dug myself into. The world will never be the same again, the trees slump down, decaying slowly, just like all living organisms. We decay, our...

The great gasping ravine echoed my every breath and the huffing of the steed that heroically carried me. Both hunger and night were settling in swiftly and the rainbow of the sunset revealed its secrets to me in a way no one else could admire. My bones ached, furiously dragging me further and further after each step my strong Helios took towards the destination. I hollered for him to stop and to t...

I am not an overly suspicious person, not at all. Not like my brother was. He always believed that the worst was yet to come, that there was some sourly fated event just around the corner of every street and down every dark alleyway. Our mother always said that he would never leave the nest, fly away and make his own one day. He was 25 and still seeking consolation in the wafting incense of our mo...

Here we are again,

Growing.

We thought we couldn’t,

Wouldn’t,

Shouldn’t,

But we did.

It’s magical, really. Even

Though we struggle through the

Harsh storms,

And oftentimes burn

During the fiery summers,

We still return and grow.

Wounds heal, and what’s left

Are scars that remind us of

Our troubles.

We can choose to hover

Aimless over those scars,

Picking at them,

Reopening the wounds of the pas...

Day by day we ruin our home,

Our place of living;

The place that took us in;

The place that lets us breathe;

The place that understands us most.

Day by day we continue

To fill the world up with gas and pollution,

We continue to make our home

Our possession.

We do not own this world,

We have no right to say we do.

We are merely inhabitants,

Renters,

Adopted by the world

And allowed to live.

But we...