parks ♡

“dear empathy,
please stop telling me
that it’s okay when they hurt me
stop allowing me to accept
the knife you see in their side
is a reasonable excuse
for them to put two in mine
please stop introducing me to their demons
i don’t want to shake hands
with the reasons
they can’t seem to stay
please stop waving a white flag
and making me pity their anger
and make peace with their madness”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“i told you that you remind me of springtime
and i didn’t lie
i just forgot that seasons are temporary
you can’t tell spring to stay
the same way
you can’t ask the sun not to set
but sometimes
i can close my eyes
and remember the feeling of sunlight
the smell of a fresh start
and the sound of birds singing again
thank you for reminding me
that things will be good again
even if it was only for a season”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.”
― Lauren Eden, Lioness Awakens

“The first thing I fell in love with
Was the way you wrote,
So sweet,
So innocent,
Light on my mind
And had me high
All the time.”
― F.S. Yousaf, Sincerely,