what i call home
I’ve lived around the world.
In fact I moved when I was 18,
I left my home and found another,
But was that home?
Layered bricks and walls with posters,
soft warm bed and candles lit by it
to make it
home-y,
But was that home?
‘a house is not a home’
yet I still feel like I really miss
my house, where my mom and my cat
are waiting patien...
Thursday 9th December 2021 1:07 pm
apologies
and i'm sorry, darling,
that you had to love me
at that wrong time.
a time when i loved you,
but i needed to love myself more.
Sunday 6th October 2019 7:32 pm
lies
why is it that
everyone says how
things will get better?
And at first you won't believe them.
but then as soon as
you get your hopes up
it all goes down.
And you cry, because you believed them.
again here comes the hole
that eats you whole
And then you say you won't believe anymore.
you are me.
and i am you.
we are both
...
Thursday 30th May 2019 9:28 pm
Alien
‘At least your skin isn’t black’ as if that changes anything or makes it better.
I am still as foreign with my white skin. With my ‘funny sounding’ language,
in a country where people don’t understand the concept of knowing
different languages, where they know no other, except for their own.
One. And only.
Where I can’t spe...
Friday 10th May 2019 1:05 pm
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