Does it ever get easier?

"Well, let's try this. Why don't you tell me what's on your mind. Then it can be on our minds. And our minds can worry about what's on your mind... together."

- Dan Humphrey, Gossip Girl

"Does it ever get easier?" - Friend's text message, April 26, 20008, 4am

I quickly replied, "Yes it does." But it was too late when I realized that it wasn't the right answer, it wasn't my answer. The truth is, it doesn't get easier. We just become stronger and more equipped. Our tolerance for pain, it just gets higher until we reach a certain kind of numbness. I call it selective numbness. We are able to choose which will affect us and which won't. We are able to take control.

Snow

samedi, décembre 24, 2005

I dreamt of snow last night.
I was jumping and laughing --
i fell. Still i conitinued laughing.
I looked up and realized
I was dreaming. Not

because it can't be

snowing but because
I saw you laughing with me.
You are snow. You exist,
but not when I'm dreamin'.

....................................

jeudi, mars 31, 2005

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