Bite Sized

the sky told me a secret glitter stars fill me with prophecies it’s the truth, it’s the truth it’s true form warms me with gaiety i am happy my smile stretched till it breaks and joins the stars i will join the stars some day, we all will which star were gifted is the product of our mortal use you must be happy give your life to the sky not enough, smile, make it break so wide and join the stars you must prove that your worthy the sky told me the greatest secret that i am cho

The absence of stress, mixed with childhood naivety, was a sweet escape we only found at Nana’s house. It seeped from the walls, into the food, and through the Steve Harvey Morning Show, trapping our jubilation. Her house was a sanctuary—whether it came as a tight hug or a quiet game of Scrabble. Prepubescent struggles and clashes with our parents always led my cousins and I to her old barn-style house in the woods. What was once called a punishment became a place of comfort

A Summer Without A Like These past couple weeks of my life, I have held a brain in my hands, earned my driver’s license, read fabulous novels, and cried real tears. I’ve laughed from my belly, watched the sky change colors in silence, and allowed myself to simply exist in the world around me. And honestly? It all began with one spontaneous decision: deleting Instagram.