stay alive

you cannot kill me in a way that matters

[nsstym]

[uredrunk]

they should invent a place where i belong

[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

[two-bees-poetry]

[kosmogrl]

[glowcowboy]

i don’t know. i’m barely a person. i just want to be kind and hold someone’s hand. eat an ice cream cone. stare at the lake. feel the sun on my skin. lay in the grass. run through a sprinkler. it’s so easy to forget life is supposed to feel like a deep breath and not a gasp

[heavensghost]

You don’t have to belong everywhere!

[xanaxfarts]

Illuminated gravestones at a cemetery in Hafnarfjörour, Iceland

[metamorphesque]

musings on november

Donald Miller, Holly Warburton, L. M. Montgomery, E. M. Forster, Anne Sexton, Kaye Donachie, Anne Sexton, Emilio Hernandez Martin, Maggie Stiefvater, Nina MacLaughlin (The Paris Review)

[flowrrs4u]

I am good. I am loved.

[mournfulroses]

Gabriela Mistral, from The Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral; "Eternal Grief,"

[balkanrose]

by Alice White

[nightwashh]

the years by alex dimitrov

[littlewhispersmokesigns]

[weltenwellen]

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

[weltenwellen]

ugh why must I be always so repulsed by my own vulnerability but I find it very moving and impressive if other people are vulnerable with me????

[weltenwellen]

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

[weltenwellen]

the overwhelming feeling of sadness sometimes when someone treats me with kindness

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous