Listen&You'llSee

“I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.”

I am tired of writing poems about people who hurt me. I’m tired of writing poems about being traumatised and angry. I’m tired of the way everything feels like a cage these days and I wish exhaustion with the world wasn’t the reason why people fall in love, but we are all tired of not being held, afraid of being alone, we all want someone to look at us like we are the sun, we all wish that when someone kissed us they do not see our tired souls but the moon in our eyes. I’m trying to want myself in a way that I feel like I do not need the love of others. Most days, I fail at this. Most days I lie there holding onto love’s tender hands and pretend it is healing to do that. I try to see myself the way I wish someone else would. Like I am beautiful. Like I am enough.

“You need people in your life that are further along than you, people that are more experienced, people that are out of your league. You need to be exposed to new levels so that you can go to new levels.”

8 de Marzo

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story.”

“Estamos aquí para ayudarnos, para salir adelante juntos, para apoyarnos y siempre darnos lo mejor como especie. Todos encontrarán el sentido de la vida dentro del amor desmedido que den a los demás.”

“Some women are kept quiet for so long they become experts in the silent theft of power.”

“Watch me plant seeds down my spine and bloom into a garden of poetry from every horrible thing that has ever happened to me.”

“And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, ‘Oh, there you are. I’ve been looking for you.”

“No sé quien te dijo eso, pero no tiene nada de malo llorar de vez en cuando.”

“Home is wherever I’m with you..”