I am surrounded by memories. The subway ticket from Chicago, mint tins, piles of books, my rock and beach glass collection, small wooden turtles from Mexico, and notes on the walls that remind me of events that have long passed and math equations I no longer need are all reminders of my past. They are [...]
I could write more poetry. Why not? It gets me more views. It gets me more likes. It's relatively fast to do compared to my other posts. In fact, I could write a poem a day if I wanted to. Surely, my stats would boom then. I know exactly how I need to change my [...]
Time is a powerful force that controls our existence. Every moment in which we are alive and conscious has been given a numerical label. The cycles of human behavior have been etched by the concept of time: when we sleep and wake, when we eat, when we celebrate birthdays and other anniversaries, how we define [...]
Complacency is the hardest disease to cure. It is a beast that lives within all of us. It keeps us blind, sedated with false promises, and much easier to control. It is so much easier to live a complacent life, so much easier not to ask the big questions, so much easier not to wonder [...]
Time seems to slow down When we’ve had too much of it Like an uninvited guest inside your head Useless comforts are the only pills we can take To rid ourselves of the reminder That the wonders of life Have been washed away with predictability Predictability is a poison It kills the surprise It grows [...]
Back then, The days of summer never ended A full year, it seemed, would pass Before the big yellow school bus Would round the corner again To take me away again Back then, Each day was a new adventure One long hour stretched into the next Leaving me time to think about my existence Look [...]
Her dark, sunken eyes Is all that she could see Illuminated in the foggy, ambiguous mirror As she steps out of the shower Her tired eyes Like those two back holes on a ghost Made as a crappy Halloween costume Those delicate, pale green eyes Tarnished by the surrounding darkness They are tired eyes [...]
What is reality? The Webster dictionary defines it as “the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.” But what does that even mean? "It's the truth even if it did not happen." -Ken Kesey, One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest The funny [...]
Kat's observations. 