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Where I Found Him and Myself
I had never fully grasped the importance or the necessity of community until I packed my bags and flew to China. I spent years living in the country yearning for something I hadn’t fully understood but needed or had taken for granted because it was such a norm in my previous life. Even if that’s the case, the community I have now is completely different. Firstly, these are people from different cultures and countries from me, so it’s actually phenomenal to feel this deep connection to them. It’s one thing to sing the same tribal songs, speak the same language eat the same food and feel love, compassion, respect and…
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The Things I Hate About You
I hate how I’ve written you more poems than anyone I’ve ever met in my human existence. I hate how, I hate that, I hate you when we both know that I couldn’t hate you. I hate that we both know that hate isn’t the main ingredient in this recipe but it feels so much more safer to scream I hate you than to say I love you. And yes I do and you do too, Hate in the way our eyes meet when we are about to make bad decisions with our bodies. Hate in the way we throw back-and-forth speech with harsh tones and unfiltered truths about each…