Perfectly Imperfect

You could send me a text message with only one or two words and I will still overthink what your sentence meant. You could smile at me from across a crowded room and I will overthink what the look meant. I wish I knew what other people were thinking because I spend so much of [...]

The woman who has been to hell and back is not easy to love. Many have tried. Most have failed. The weak need not attempt, for it will take more strength than you even know you possess; more patience, more resilience, more tenacity, more resolve. It requires a relentless love, one that is determined and [...]

When you have a toxic father, you learn from a young age that you should never rely on a man to bring you peace, stability, and happiness. You decide that you are going to take care of yourself. You are going to make your own money. You are going to buy your own clothes. You [...]

Exhausted isn’t just enough to describe the state I am going through right now. I am exhausted yes, this tiredness is beyond physiological tiredness. It’s psychological, it’s emotional. I am tired of being strong. I am tired of trying to put on that smile on my face every day of a strong woman and be [...]

Being alone is no scary, or bad, or a curse, or any other bullshit that people make it out to be. Being alone is also not lonely, unless you make it lonely. Being alone is better than settling for a bunch of shitty dates that make you feel horrible about yourself; or waking up next [...]

I really didn't see it coming, all of the pain I put you through. All those lonely nights when I wasn't there for you. I can feel the pent up anger, the hate that's consuming you. I lost my chance at heaven by the hell I put you through If we could start over again [...]

Slowly but surely, I will loosen my grip on the idea of us, of we. I will drop all the notions of a future, those shards of hope that you and I would ever become something real. I will watch those promises of a tomorrow flutter away in the breeze of yesterday, piece by piece, [...]

RIP. Friend. Son. Daughter. Classmate. You didn't deserve to die. Most of the time, I can deal with your death, I can hold back tears and accept that you're gone. I force myself to believe the cliche words that get thrown around, about how only the good die young, and how God takes his favorites [...]

The day we met, I knew you were the one for me. Youintroduced yourself as methamphetamine. At first I kept you a secret, I loved you to much to share.As our relationship progressed, you taught me not to care. I thought I was sospecial everything was great, the more I gave into you, the more [...]

How silly of me to try and plant gardens in your chest, and try to get you to love me, when I didn't even love myself.   I am truly sorry for giving you the burden of trying to fix a broken human being. However, at the end of the day some people are just shit. [...]