also probably my favorite one of this year:

“I cannot give up my own dreams
when it is the only respite from
Reality
I can afford.
and while others gorge their hearts on shared jokes, I’ll wallow in my […]

Free is more than a statement of being
it is an all-encompasing standard of peace.
and it lets on more than the gust of a thousand winds
while dropping the weights that kept me shackled,

And love, beauty, […]