Me AF

“Tonight, just put your arms on me and hold me like I am yours. Leave pieces of yourself behind on my skin, and love me like it is the first and the last time for us. Fill my lungs with your breath and make me forget my name. Tonight, I am yours and I will be yours, until dawn breaks.”

— Lukas W. // Until dawn breaks

I'm talking to you kid, there's a life to lead.

Short note for my mid 20 somethings. I feel like I’m stagnating and that’s hard. I feel like I hit my peak 5 years ago. I feel aimless and hopeless and lost. I feel constantly drained. I am measuring my self worth based on how much money I can earn a year and what I say to people when they ask me what I’m doing. At the moment, nothing. I’m doing nothing. I’m unemployed and exhausted by it. I’m tired and tired and tired. I’m trying to remind myself that I’m more than this moment right now. I’m trying to remind myself that there is light and someday I’ll be bathed in it.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo, from Questions for Ada; “Pain”

One of my biggest, and most vivid fears is finding out that all the healing happened only in my head. That reality broke me, and I've just been in a mercy dream.

I'm intensely sad and I think it's because of a boy.

"Give me your hand. Make room for me to lead and follow you beyond this rage of poetry. Let others have the privacy of touching words and the love of loss of love. For me. Give me your hand."

Maya Angelou, Poetic Justice, 1993

...the definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation...

John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

Ijeoma Umebinyuo, from Questions for Ada

It takes a minute. Everything takes a minute. It doesn't register for a while, but God I hope you have time. I hope you have time.