Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
There are different sides to loneliness. Like a lover, with two faces. Sometimes it creeps up while you driving in a silent car. Other times you feel it when you walk through a park, Noises everywhere around you, but none of them belong to you. A lot of times loneliness Read more
I haven’t felt comfortable in my skin since I was a teenager. And this is odd to me, because when I was a teenager, I was disgusted by my reflection. Horrified and sickened, I would gag at the sight of myself in the mirror. I’m far from being a kid Read more
Beneath the murky water, she stares up at me. Her deceptive comfort lures me in. It’s all become so difficult, I scream. Tears forcing from the corners of my eyes. I know, she whispers, Let it out. Everything I’ve bottled up; held it deep down inside it burns in my Read more
I think about renouncing my gender of woman often, even knowing it won’t change what’s happened to me already because of my womanhood.
Call me the black sheep, the could be the wanted to be but never was. Name me the backdrop, the shadow, the breakthrough that never did. I was the nightlight that burned out, looking like a spotlight that failed. I tried to be the center but I got sidelined, where Read more
A few weeks after the Paris massacre of Friday, November the 13, 2015, I got my first tattoo. It’s the Eiffel tower centered inside the peace sign and wrapped at the top are the words, Joie de vivre ! (joy of life!), a French phrase that speaks of our healthy Read more
