Kiera

Time to escape.

[thekventures]

This One Hit Me Hard

I’ve lost a lot of people in my life, but this one hit me hard.

You still had more life to live. You were supposed to see that life got better. You were supposed to find the job you loved. You were supposed to be a constant staple in our lives. You were an extra addition to the family. You were my sister’s age, and that’s way too young. You were supposed to have more phone conversations.

We were supposed to have more vacations. There were more memories to look forward to. It’s weird there are no more new memories to look forward to.

I’m sorry you’re gone. You were way too young.

We’ll miss you

[PS- we have your cat. Rouge is safe.]

[thekventures]

I am afraid I’ve bottled up my ability to fully express myself and it feels like I’ve lost a part of me

[thekventures]

I want to fall in love with writing again

[eroscestlavie]

Claude Monet’s home in Giverny 

[thekventures]

A little lost and a little disappointed

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I am finally at a place where I am happy. My demons don’t haunt me as much anymore. What a relief

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The Epiphany

They were all curious.

I ignored the stares, the whispers, the condemnation. They wanted me to feel small. They thought I should be ashamed, but I wasn’t. I was liberated. I pitied them; they would never feel my liberation. They cared too much about the superficial I woke up one morning and realized I had my own ideals. I didn’t need to follow their rules. I was not one of them. Not anymore.

Not ever.

[thekventures]

No Flowers

I watched as you were planted in the ground

Dirt was laid over you

The clouds watered you with their tears

But no flowers budded for me

I hoped

I waited

I prayed

For a miracle

And still, no flowers budded for me

[thekventures]

I couldn't breathe But they went to work Not able to see that their neck ties Were choking them

The one who didn't conform

[thekventures]

The betrayal hurts more when we love them

Lesson #22

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Woman

Ah yes, a woman. She has been kicking, and scratching, and punching her way through the the 60 year grave the world has put her in. She has been silenced and ridiculed for *gasp* her ambitions and goals. She, the courageous woman, is bold and fiery, but they want to make her dull and douse her flames. She is a creator of life and yet they treat her as if she is the death of it. She is every woman, but nevertheless we persisted.

[thekventures]

Dear Future Me,

Twenty years from now I hope you’re talking to your kids, telling them about these terrible times. I imagine we’ll refer to them as the dark days. I’m hoping twenty years from now love won. Hope won. Equality won. I hope this chaos has ceased to exist. Tell them that you stood up to stop the injustice. Tell them that 65,316,724 Americans did not support injustice. We fought like hell for everyone.

[thekventures]

I AM WILD. Nothing can confine me.

Out of the cage

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You were stubborn But I was a bulldozer I decimated all the rotten & broken places Helped build a new foundation Helped prove how strong you could be

[thekventures]

I am wild. I am being confined.

From a cage

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The Truth

I am scared. I am pretending to be brave.

[thekventures]

It doesn’t make the situation any less sad or unbelievably tragic, but I found comfort in you being there. Both of us asking questions we’ll never know the answers to.

(via segues)