The Blank Sheet
THE BLANK SHEET Alone again, but not lonely. On my own, nobody to hold, this is not my moment. I wanted to know her. I wanted to go there. Anything to get away from nowhere. I gave it my all. My heart opened up to the stars. I found a new life. Away from a place that was always too small. Now I’m back where I promised I’d never go, laughing at repeats of the past. Falling into all that I climbed so far out of. Sinking into the boundaries I already escaped from. My passions le
The Messenger
THE MESSENGER She swooped in, landed on my shoulder. There was a heart on her feathers. The colors she wore changed me forever. December sun, overcast with gloom. I looked into her soul. Already knew her from a lifetime before. I saw sorrow. Face weathered. She had witnessed the worst. Too many atrocities on this bloodstained Earth. No place to go. Loggers decimated her home. She was not alone. I was taken from my own. She told me how the last rivers all dried up. How the wat
