When I can't sleep and my mind is racing 1000 miles a minute my dog stands up and does three spins and plops back down and for a second, I laugh. And for exactly 3 minutes and 21 seconds, I am dancing in my kitchen and singing, and nothing has ever hurt me. At night when I'm having trouble breathing, and the tears won't stop, sometimes it starts raining, and the smell of rain drifts into my room and I am calm. And for some reason, the smell makes me feel okay again. And for one Friday night, I am hanging out with my girls. I'm laughing and drinking wine and I forgot all about that one boy. And for one hour I sit at the lake and I think of all the endless possibilities. I think about how truly beautiful the world is if you just take a second and sit with it. The waves crash in and I might not be better, but there are moments.
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The live's I've lived
PoetryThis is a collection of poems and pieces of writing. That I have written over the last 2 years of my life. I've never been one to actually live. To take the risk. A lot of the things I have written are about things that have happened in my head. Or...
