Image Source: Pexels- Natã Romualdo In so many ways I’ve been smitten, I’ve been felled by beauty In beauty I’m reborn I’m amazed yet crippled Like venom, it spreads A venom like this, I can’t escape In my heart, I’m paralyzed. In my head Many reasons swim by, They talk about love They spoke of…

Image Source: Pexels- Arina Krasnikova It’s an Asian thing, I say To my baffled friends As I place my mock Mojito Among their crystal-rimmed cocktails. Their laugh hides Their disbelief and Honestly? I don’t blame them. Twenty-one is fun, they said. You can go to bars! Let’s go to bars! … Can you go to…

Image Source: Unsplash- Ahmad Pishnamazi Sometimes, I just want to run away, And be by myself somewhere. Somewhere far, far out of the real. Yes, somewhere beyond the physical, I just want to disappear. Sometimes, when I see the tears of orphans, When I see the tears of widows, I yearn to disappear far away.…

Image Source: Freepik We were once little girls— talking about our dreams, fears, and hopes, imagining what it would be like to grow up. Then it happened. We began to grow, experiencing life hand in hand— at last, becoming the women we once dreamt of being. For that, I will forever be grateful. This was…

Image Source: Pexels- Godisable Jacob Whenever you’re near My soul craves more, In your absence I seek to find you Without you, I’m lost Lost to the world. In your voice, I draw breath A breath I seem to love, In these veins you flow You’ve become my blood An elixir I seem to lack…

Image Source: Unsplash- Gabriel Tovar Before God, before men; In times of the good and the bad, For better or for worse, Darling, I want to have you by my side. I want to be the sun in your sky. I want to be the moon in your night. For this, your affection is making…

Image Source- Pexels- Juan Pablo Serrano Roger and Marie Walked together every day so happily. Then came the day to drift apart. Marie was left alone with a broken heart. Roger was on a certain path But that never changed the memories they had. Marie sort of lost her way. She could no longer find…

Image Source: Pexels- Pepe Caspers At the evening, sitting under this veranda, When the sun from the east, beyond the lands, Of the native women, beyond Mount Putu, Diverges, and the sky turned from glinting gold to twilight… When the fowls were coming home to roost, Knowing that the day was over, And the crickets…

Image Source- Pexels- ROMAN ODINTSOV O thou, whose soul is lit with sacred flame, Whose heart aspires to seek eternal name, The fates conspire to weave thy golden thread, Where wisdom walketh, and the muses tread. Not idly shalt thou pass through fleeting years, But crown thy hours with triumph, not with tears; The scrolls…

Image Source: Unsplash- simon sun Comparison is the thief. The thief of joy. The thief of love. The thief of accomplishment. The thief of life. To compare is to waste our most precious gift: time. Wasting time counting what’s missing, instead of enjoying the things we have. The things that, one day, will live only…