A rose trapped inside a fist.

How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold...

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having...

Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

Love heals scars love left

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

I have found a way to beat myselfI win by losing, something like thatI’m told that I’m stupidSo ok, I’ll be stupidIf I can’t register the painThen it’s not thereI’m not so stupid after allI’ll...

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt...

I was at this guy’s house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had brown eyes and dark hair. She was soft-spoken and real nice. I know that...

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

When life hands you a lemon, say, ‘Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

She is the gin. Cold, intoxicating. Gives you a rush, makes you warm inside, makes you lose your head. Take too much, it makes you sick and shuts you down. He is the coffee, hot,...

I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

She lit my soul and inhaled deeplyFlicking my ashes occasionally.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

It’s funny how people think that they have “a right to life”. Now isn’t that the biggest load you ever heard? You don’t have a right to shit your pants on Sunday. Let’s take it...

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage

Life will not break your heart. It’ll crush it.

Hurry up, man. What’s your problem? Get out of my way.” That sentiment comes easy to me. Going to these countries, you realize none of that is necessary, none of it’s cool, it’s nothing Abraham...

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it’s the only thing good that...

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking...

I am ready for whatever’s coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.

Do you ever get the feeling that when you show someone your affection for them, you are assaulting them? Like you should probably leave them alone? Your affection, no matter how sincere, does not necessarily...

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

I used to love youI still doSo SelfishI love the old youThe you that didnt shoot drugs…The you that didnt get beat on by menYou laugh in my face and call me a foolBut its...

They left like you knew they would. They went away and you fell like a stone. All the way to the bottom of your room. I see you, yes I see you. Sitting in your...

I’ll be here tomorrowIf I can make it through today.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

At some point they show their true colorsAfter the break upAfter the trial After the contract is signed and brokenTheir true colors stinkThese daysI find it hard to get along with themI want to push...

My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without inspiration. I go day to day and do the work...