• What you felt like

    You felt like a Sunday in the hammock, reading a book while the sun is shining and birds are chirping, falling asleep and feeling someone cover you with a warm blanket and somewhere between awake and asleep, you feel yourself smile. I was just a fast drive around the city to you.  JMS

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  • Still Here, Still Soft

    I have known a kind of pain that could have split me in two—something sharp, something relentless—but I am still here. I survived because I refused to surrender to the darkness, even when it whispered that it would be easier to fall. I carry scars. Some you could trace with your fingertips, others buried so…

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  • before it ever began….

    I know that once I tell you about my trauma and the girl I used to be, you’re going to leave and I’ll never speak to you again. I’ll never hear the sweetness of your voice or feel your hands on my body. We will go back to being strangers, two people in the world…

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  • I love everything about you except….

        The beginning of something new— a new connection, a new voice in your life can feel like the first warm day after a long winter. There’s an electricity to it. The way someone laughs for the first time and it surprises you. The way their face lights up when they’re happy, like a…

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  • This is why I’m against “religion”

    This is why I’m against the idea, the term, the concept of the word “religion.” What is religion? If 5 different people were to sit down at an interview, and the interviewer asked them – “what does religion mean to you?” – everyone’s answer would be different. The conservative Christian might explain it as a…

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  • I will love you

    As long as there is air in my lungs, As long as I can see, As long as I can dream, As long as I can think, As long as I can speak, I will love you. As long as I have a soul, As long as I have a heartbeat, I will love you.…

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