It asks that we first take off our masks

Love holds your heart in gentle hands

It will never hold it captive

You must leave if it begins to make demands

Before your soft heart hardens from the pain impacted

Begin Again

Little by little, you will begin to understand a fresh start is not marked by a day but rather belongs to you at any and all moments. Little by little, you will discover that there is a whole world inside of you, and we’ll laugh together at how you once believed in that lie called limitation. Little by little, you will fall deeply in love with life until a sparkle of passion is permanently painted in your eyes. Little by little, you will feel the magic that exists in you. Little by little, you’ll stop placing expectations on the blank pages ahead when you realize your story will be the most beautiful surprise for its every twist, turn, and triumph. This is your now. This is your year. This is your life.

Femme

There’s something about the way her spirit seems to escape her body in all her wildness. As though there is far too much life in her to ever be contained to mere flesh. Even now as I try to piece together the words to describe her, I’ll never be able to weave together a sentence that matches the feelings she sparks. It is something like looking a jaguar square in the eyes—beautiful to admire from a distance, but up close your very nerves are on fire with the uncertainty of what she will do next. I don’t know that she could ever belong to anyone, except perhaps Mother Nature herself.

What I Know Is That I Do Not Know

Who you are

Is what you understand

And what you understand

Is in your understanding

Of how much you do not understand

Do you understand?

Freedom to Fail

I would rather fail doing what I love

Than hide behind the success of what feels safe

Trying to avoid judgment and failure

Is akin to shackling your wings

This life is not very long, you see

It may feel like a great risk to put your heart in the ring

With your dreams so vulnerably exposed on the line

The greatest risk of all would be to never even try

Don’t you see?

If you fail doing what you love,

It is not failure at all

Death Creates Life

When Death comes for me,

I will greet him with a smile

I hope he finds me dancing with laughter

Because each moment I lived was worthwhile

When Death comes for me,

I will greet him as a friend

Without him I would not have lived so wildly

You only see your journey as precious if there is an end

When Death comes for me,

I’ll keep my memories close to my heart