Many are under the belief that if you don't acknowledge it then it won't exist. They're terribly mistaken.

In light of what I know I'm capable of, I welcome and fear what the future may bring.

The best and worst thing life has given me is the ability to think.

I never asked to be born, now I must make the best of it.

Only when I die will true peace be achieved.

The best day of my life was they day I stopped caring for those petty feelings inside that are tearing me apart.

The best thing, and worst, life has given me is the ability to think.

I am haunted by the lying dreams, caged within the social “norms,” burdened by the sadness and depression, pressured by those who demand, and held captive within the trenches of emotion. I tell myself, “It would be so easy to turn my back, walk away into the Santa Cruz Mountains and disappear forever into a house that is suffocated by the towering redwood trees, and only accessed by a lonely dirt road that is the path into my world.” Misanthropy resonates within the bowels of my mind as my a...

The glow of daylight deteriorates giving rise to the full blue moon that casts the shadows of illusion and doubt across the mountains that pierce the fog and meet the sky. I stare into the perpetual sea of darkness searching for the auburn glow of your eyes, but only find the diffused burning of street lights that poison my mind and drive me further away. The distance that separates plagues me with the uncertainty of the unanswered questions I pose and the dialogue that I choose to keep silen...

It stares at me everyday, when I wake. Its face with three rotating hands makes a fool of me. I can hear it laughing, mocking me. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. It controls my life. That’s why I’m here. It’s universal, look around they are everywhere. That makes it possible for schedules, structure, work cycles, school, commute hours. It all revolves around it. Without it there is no concept of time. Why do I go with it? To be proficient. Day after day I work the routine. I awake, eat, get...