Covers over my head,

Unaware of the world,

Content in the familiar,

The sunlight streaks in but I do not see,

An opportunity lay outside my window but I do not know,

They say ignorance is bliss,

I say truth is joy,

So I remove the veil,

Vulnerable but free,

My eyes adjust to the light,

Finally I see,

My ignorant bliss was cause of ignorant living,

This is what it means to be alive,

Keeping your do...

“But you’re not like _him_…” Layla spilled these jagged words to Ronan her friend of 5 years as they stood in the dim light of her front porch. The night air standing still and the crickets around them harmonizing their song. Ronan had come to profess his love for his close friend after seeing that her being with another man was destroying him.

My gaze is fixed on Layla as the words that fell out...

I want to feel, I want to know.

I want to love, I want to grow.

I want to see, I want to be.

If only this life were meant for me.

Racing ahead, falling behind.

When will time, be on my side.

This time I tried.

Came out still blind.

When will I feel, when will I know.

When will I love, when will I grow.

When will I see, when will I be.

Will waiting and hoping give me these?

I finally feel, I sti...

The same wooden frame, rustic shelves, soft music, lively plants. Every familiar comfort of my beloved bookstore except this distinguished feeling I couldn’t figure out.

Usually on tough days I find solace within the romance section. So that’s where I went firstly. A velvety red spine with fancy lettering caught my eye. “The chosen princess” is what it read. I’ve never been into fantasy but th...

I lift my head to look down at my lifeless body. There’s a blinding light blaring into my eyes as I rest my head back down laying on something cold. How long have I been here on this table? Days? Months? Years? Questions fade in and out as do my consciousness. I hear my heart beating in my ears and faint whispers around me. Who are they? “Please,” a voice barely I can hear, “help me.” I hear the p...

The summer breeze tossed Joshua’s hair as he glanced out at the ocean one last time, he kept continuing down the boardwalk. People buzzing past bliss written on their faces. Families, couples, friends. The only person that made him feel so happily unaware of the world was captured in a locket tossed into the ruthless waves… long gone by now....

Void of your presence in my life,

A sunflower without the sun,

Somber surrounding,

If this was all the sunflower had to appreciate,

Content,

But the sunflower learned the sun,

So the pedels wilt and the stem bows down in grief,

Down to the earth it cries,

Letting the tears fill its roots,

Drowing without rays of comfort,

Praying to see the sun in another lifetime...