You are the reason I have ink stains on my fingertips. art by yuschav arly

Empty spaces, dark places, death has many faces. Ars Moriendi "The Art of Dying"

when you have too many thorns, all you can do is paint them in red, because, maybe then, they will look like petals [sequel to shades of blue]

A collection of my favorite poems by famous poets and unknown poets. Some poets who writing is included is Robert Frost and Charles Bukowski. And every once in a while I may post a short story I have written. I hope you enjoy.

Split my head open and you shall see stars.

Lebensmüde is a German word that has no English equivalent. The word literally means being tired of life and was used to describe the dramatic and soul-crushing emotional agony of young Romantic poets. Nowadays, the word is simply used for when someone is going to do something stupid and reckless. ***This book is dedicated to my greatest of online friends, my beloved sister, Farah. (@_city_of_angels_) I love you Farah Bearah, more than you know.***

"drinking cough syrup when you didn't have a cough was ironic, because in reality, you were sicker than you thought." a book of poetry, phrases, paeans, and prose that seem to capture the essence of what life has shown me. [you b r o k e me, life. but now I am indestructible] [my words are all I have. please do not take them from me. ©]

"I think you should -" "Correction: I am in my own body, with my own mind; you do not and cannot tell me what to do."

ǁ Oh, but these are just words...

we are all just misfit human beings infatuated with the idea of perfection.