Trying to Fly

"I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship." - Michelle Williams

[oresti-s]

Road Music, Richard Siken.

[pleaseletmebeimsorry-blog]

not to self diagnose or anything but something's wrong

[thematicparallel]

—RICHARD SIKEN

[stephengogolev]

richard siken

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s all the blood in my mouth screams devastatingly desperate, miserable girl.

[text id: the skin of the girl i could have been rests under my nails. / she hurts me. / i hurt her back.]

[podcastwizard]

something interesting is that you can have a good day but feel weird the whole time so actually it was a weird day

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, from “USAvCUBA”, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much

[geryone]

Stigmata, Hélène Cixous

[unorcadox]

Have you had any more lives since we last met?  I’ve had countless.

[wovi]

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joy sullivan

[owlservice]

God grant me the strength to do the things I enjoy

[boymiffy]

letting go is so easy until you’re folding your laundry or cooking or walking home at dusk or lying in bed trying to sleep or stuck at a party you didn’t really want to go to or or or

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in "Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends,"

[insane---world]

[goldenxbullet-deactivated201903]

and then you stop wanting what you’ve always wanted

[lakevida]

man with excellent self restraint dismayed to realize that not wanting anything is more likely a depression symptom than a carefully honed skill that atones for other aspects of his character

[nomorechoirs]

“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.” ― Anaïs Nin

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from "The Ninth Elegy," featured in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke