I feel hollow

I feel so much but nothing at the same time.

After months maybe years of anxiety everything has come crashing down

Yet I mostly just feel hollow.

I don’t even have further words....

In a heart shaped box a mother keeps her children’s teeth. As she looks at them now she can’t believe how these tiny teeth used to be in their tiny mouthes. How their tiny hands used to hold hers walking down the street. How their tiny little heads would bob as they used to sit impatiently as she’d brush their hair. How their tiny little feet would jump and run whenever she got home yelling “mommy...

I give the impression that I’m a really nice person, and truly I am, or I try to be. But when I look in the mirror I know it’s not enough. If it’s easy, I’m a good person. If it’s convenient, I’m a good person. If I’m being watched, I am a good person. But in my heart of hearts, when it comes to only things I know, I am scared. When I look in the mirror I see fear. There are obvious steps that I n...

Everything is poetry

I see it in the trees, and the stars

I see is in my family and friends

I see it in the birds and butterflies

Everything is poetry

I hear it in music and song

I hear it in the wind and waves

I hear it in the voices of the people I pass

Everything is poetry

I smell it in the breeze and in fire

I smell it in fresh baked cookies

I smell it in the candles I light each e...

Do you ever feel like you can’t keep your balance no matter how hard you try.

Everyone around you seems to have it together but deep down you know it’s just a lie.

Nobody knows what they’re doing, we’re all just getting by.

But some people manage to pirouette, while you just manage to move along the wall.

For fear if you let got for a second, all you’ll do is fall.

Your perception of their g...