“Keep up your determination and drive, because you have the willpower to fight off your weakness.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am exactly where I need to be—and that is in a better place mentally and physically.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“So many people dragged me into the pit of hell with them. What they failed to realize was that I refused to become settled and make it my home. I’ve walked out of the pit of hell. I can smile. I am happy because I am finally free.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“Togetherness makes me feel loved, wanted, needed, and at peace—because we all are changing each other’s lives for the better.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I don’t know which is worse—your parents forgetting about you or having a parent who knows you exist, but doesn’t want you.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“If you let them paddle the boat, you are either going to starve or you are going to drown.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am trying to help myself.
I am grateful for myself because I am seeking help.
I am taking seeking charge of my life.
I am going to recover perfectly.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I finally know how to love myself. I do not need anyone’s approval or anyone to love me in order to love myself.
I am truly and wholeheartedly in love with myself—and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“This week
in live current
events: your eyes.
All power can be
dangerous:
Direct
or alternating,
you, socket to me.
Plugged in and the grid
is humming,
this electricity,
molecule-deep desire:
particular friction, a charge
strong enough to stop
a heart
or start it
again; volt, re-volt--
I shudder, I stutter, I start
to life. I've got my ion
you, copper-top,
so watch how you
conduct yourself.
Here's today's
newsflash: a battery of rolling
blackouts in California, sudden,
like lightning kisses:
sudden, whitehot
darkness and you're
here, fumbling for
that small switch
with an urgent surge
strong enough to kill
lesser machines.
Static makes hair raise,
makes things cling,
makes things rise like
a gathering storm
charging outside
our darkened house
and here I am:
tempest, pouring out
mouthfulls
of tsunami on the ground,
I've got that rain-soaked kite,
that drenched key.
You know what it's for,
circuit-breaker, you know
how to kiss until it's hertz.”
Source: Why Things Burn
“I am a testimony. What was once an unknown outcome is now known.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside