This is the second in a trilogy. My personal short-lil version of Dante's trilogy. The first being my inferno, this piece being the purgatorio, the hope for the unfinished and unrealized inspiration for the paradiso. The hope being, the work can lead to the last piece. To all who spend every day at war with themselves; who don't get to do "average" or "normal" naturally. know that though, I don't personally see your work: that i appreciate the work and how exhausting it is to fight your nature everyday. I recognize that through that work, it can feel like a titan task to just exist in the world; because you are pushing the weight of the self and expectations of the world. We do not control the unkindness of circumstance, we only control the unkindness in ourselves. So be kind to the person that it's hardest to be kind too: The you, you hate. 💗🫂🖤
why does falling in love really hurt?? like, i just love! why does it make me so hurt. and then, i realized...
love arrives like a storm
tearing down walls
i didn't know were there
exposing the raw
nerve endings
of my heart
it hurts
because feeling
is terrifying
but the ache
is also the proof
that i am alive
.....