Natalie Díaz, From "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

keep waiting

wait

is this what growing up is? just leaving things behind, over and over?

academic self-regulation explained

Kaveh Akbar, from “Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)”, Calling a Wolf a Wolf 

trying to schedule around the holidays with my divorced parents. 27 dead 23 injured 1 with childhood trauma

the real enemies to lovers plot was my arc in discovering how to love myself. it may have taken several years, but holy shit i think it worked

hate it when I call myself a girl and then someone goes "you're not a girl you're nonbinary/agender" and it's like. I am whatever I say I am. freak. I am a girl I am a little guy I am the man of the owl. I am nothing. I am everything. do not presume to know me in anyway I do not know myself

just a friendly reminder that there are people out there who will accommodate for you. you are not a burden. you deserve to feel comfortable

In another universe I’m not afraid to be seen.

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.”

— Unknown