Photo by Manouchehr Hejazi on Unsplash galaxies collapsed the day you asked me to leave. the head-splitting crash, the deafening crack of...

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Photo by Darius Bashar on Unsplash mirror mirror on the wall: will you catch me when I fall reflection deep into the abyss waiting for...

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Photo by Guillaume Didelet on Unsplash it doesn’t take an artist to see what we have is a masterpiece. a painfully crafted gallery fully...

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Photo by Ayana Wyse on Unsplash if you can live without me, maybe I can, too. live without you, that is. maybe I can find a home in the...

Photo by Wesley Balten on Unsplash I’d set fire to my skin to burn you out of it if I could. you are an infection, a sickness. and I’d...

Photo by USGS on Unsplash I am the culmination of all the people I used to be, the versions of myself that I s u r v i v e d. I am what...

Photo by Joseph Barrientos on Unsplash. they say, “the tide raises all ships,” but here I am, s i n k i n g into the abyss. on my toes in...

Photo by Darius Bashar on Unsplash an old man stopped me in the parking lot one day. we exchanged smiles, pleasantries, and, inevitably,...