darkness does not leave us

"darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope"

- margaret stohl

ghosts

"the muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited"

- stephen king

into the darkness

"into the darkness they go,

the wise and the lovely"

-edna st. vincent millay

cold that you left

"in a room all i feel

is the cold that you left..."

-from "song for a blue guitar" by red house painters

storm

"sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere"

-benjamin saenz

escape me

"take my hand and escape me from what i've become"

-rafy rohaan

oblivious

"i wasn't sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality"

-shannon a. thompson