Loving Someone Suicidal

The truth about loving a suicidal person is tender. The truth is painful and exhausting and there is nothing beautiful about it. You can make suicide into a gracious harmony and still it will empty your heart of hope. Loving a suicidal person is staying up writing pieces like this, in order to empty a […]

Love, If I Could Talk To You

Oh love, if I could talk to you… When the word love is mentioned, we automatically feel the burning sensation of a hole in our heart. Either filling up with giggles and butterflies, or else decomposing one temporary stitch at a time. But oh love, if I could talk to you. If I could talk […]

Never To Have Loved At All

Lately the quote ” ‘Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” Has been brought up too many times to be a coincidence. Whilst I’ve sat with a particularly keen mind in my tired English class every morning, I look around at the Tim Hortons coffee cups filling an […]

When You Were You

When you were you, I could catch a teardrop in my hand before it even reached the surface of your eye. I could make you laugh without having to twist your wrists and pull your fingers until they cracked. I could draw out the softer parts of you locked up in a dusty chamber, without […]

And So He Left

For nearly a year, my best friend was in love. Not like me, who is genuinely just in love with the entire idea surrounding love. The entire world it creates and the flood of emotions it carries in tidal waves. Which I suppose is easy for someone who’s never actually been in love, or fallen […]

DAD…

I should love you. You should be my hero, just the way you were when I was 10, believing your foot swings could save a life. You should be exactly what I want to find in a man, but you’re not, and im really not sure why anymore. Time seems to have escaped for you […]

When Depression Hits Close To Home: The Aftermath

A while ago I found the courage to take something that meant everything to me, something I had yet to share with anyone, and decided to share it with the world. I developed enough trust within this blog, and all who read it, to talk about my own personal experience with depression and mental illness. […]

Learning To Love Again

I want to love you enough. Enough for the both of us. I want to love me enough. Enough for the both of us. You don’t know how to be alone and maybe that’s why you pulled my inner heart strings. The idea of not having warmth of a small body tangled up with yours, […]

A Lonesome Star

A lonesome star was out tonight The bright glow consuming, in an uneven parking lot Candle in hand, light essence of hope with cold air, drawing my nose to run I thought of you. Your warmth and your touch, the last time you summoned your strength Becoming succumbed to the battle, just to softly pronounce […]

A Breath Of Fresh Air

Have you ever met the equivalent of a breath of crisp, wonderfully fresh air in human form? The break of rain when you drive under the bridge, or the light at the end of the longest of tunnels? Have you ever felt it with a person? Not necessarily in a romantic way, more so possibility, […]