If God loves me then why do I feel like this?

If Jesus died feeling all of our pain then why do I still have to go through it

alone?

You’ll answer with “trials are tests of strength and faith”

You’ll answer with “you have to act in faith to receive blessings”

You’ll answer with “all you have to do is ask for help”

I know

I have

I do

Every night as I can’t sleep I pray that tomorrow will be bet...

It was a small town, the type of place where everyone knew everyone, so it was no surprise when Tom was murdered.

He had always been the worst ever since grade school. He would pick on kids at the playground and was openly defiant to teachers. As he got older he leaned towards the views of his deadbeat father becoming misogynistic, racist, and homophobic. No one was sad to see him go. All his fa...

He made me feel like a balloon in the air

the helium stretching beyond

He made me feel like a kid with a pear

a favorite fruit to be palmed

He made me feel like nothing could compare

to be the one of which he is fond...

“I’m telling you it was an Earthquake!” Mai said to me as we looked up at the blue house about to fall off the cliff. My cousin was trying to distract me from my encounter earlier with Jeni.

“That’s a boring reason! I want something interesting!”

“Mik! What do you want from me?” They replied.

“Tell me a story. Like how the house was infested with so many flies it started to fly to the edge o...

Jeni was standing at the edge of the bridge looking into the shadows where I stood below. She was going to jump, I knew it. I could either stay here and try to catch her, try to talk her out if it, or just leave and pretend I didn’t see anything. If I tried to catch her we would both be hurt, but I can’t do nothing. I guess option three is out.

I would just call up to her, but I’m sure from wher...

The beads of cold sweat were clinging to my skin even though I felt like I had just climbed from a pool of lava. Which, according to my nightmare, I had. I stumbled sleepily into the bathroom that connected my bedroom with my sister’s and turned on the light.

I ran the cool water and took a few calming breaths. I splashed the water on my face and looked into the mirror. I almost screamed when I ...

We had always enjoyed the last day of school, Jeni and I. We would stay until the end, but never be in class and once that final bell rang we would run across the street to the ice cream shop. We would fish out the little we saved over the past few weeks and hand it over asking for one Sunday with everything and two spoons. I didn’t know it then but the last day of freshman year would be the last ...

Sweetness and Softness were old friends seldom heard from

One sickly

One old

Neither appreciated until it’s gone

They are begged to come and hold the hands of

The sickly

The old

Neither appreciated until it’s gone

Sweetness and Softness the greatest of friends

Sadly

So are Wrath and Cruelty and they are much more common....

If your hand could reach inside my heart,

What would you do with it?

Would you hold it tenderly

Or wrench far too hard

Would you feel the things I feel

Or pretend to see who I am

Would you put a bit of you in

Or take a piece of me

If your hand could reach inside my heart....

Arachnophobia-the intense and irrational fear of spiders and other arachnids like scorpions

I have arachnophobia and the worst part is, is that it is so bad I can’t even kill the little devils

I always see them, if there is one nearby I see it but I can’t kill it because of my irrational fear

And I wish I could say that it’s rational but when I am walking in circles around my kitchen table cry...