Delaney E

“These foggy futures
We have left unplanned
Is this how it ends
What we never began?”
― Ramayana Roxas, At 23

“I imagine giving up. No more peering through windows, mourning the loss of a life that could never again be mine. No more hopeless desire. No more uncertain future. No more terror.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“See," she said,
"I can hold on to you while everything else changes."
And she thought she was safe
and so, in that safety, could face whatever was
to come.

And then all of a sudden that you is gone--
that person, that family, that home,
that job (maybe even that occupation), maybe even
that country, that world--
and there's nothing to hold onto at all,
and that self, that life, is gone as well,
and yet more self--truer self--than ever before.
And how can that all be so true
at the same time?
And yet it is.”
― Shellen Lubin

“I long for insomnia or the nightmares again. At least then, I knew I was alive.”
― Kelly Covic, Insomnia