Dangerous Thoughts

“Some thoughts arrive like strangers I should fear, yet I open the door and let them linger.” Thoughts like this can be dangerous; wildfires in the dry brush of the mind, sparking through the undergrowth, where sanity and madness intertwine. They flicker in the shadowed corners. Glimmers that seduce and betray, tempting with the forbidden […]

The Heart Keeps the Score

“Every mark upon the heart is a memory, not of breaking—but of surviving.” Hearts aren’t always red, not simply the color of roses, of wine, of the fervent beats within a lover’s chest. Sometimes they’re tinted with darker lines, black and blue, shadows of bruises left by unseen blows. Black, like the midnight realms of […]