I only have two hands

and so every day

I have to decide

what I can carry.

regret

is a waste

of a hand, 

and so is 

anger.

one hand

is almost always 

reserved 

for hope.

(the other holds tight to you.)

-Kristina Mahr 

Burning

You are shaking fists & trembling teeth.
I know:
you did not mean to be cruel.
That does not mean you were kind.

What is left here?
Only the quivering of the trees,
only the rippling of the lake.

Head in lap, check.
Sorry, check.
I won’t do it again, check,
check, check.

Sometimes, I think you forget.
I am not God.
I do not forgive.

-Venetta Octavia

The world is full of painful stories.

Sometimes it seems as though there 

aren't any other kind, and yet I found

myself thinking how beautiful that

glint of water was through the trees.

-Octavia Bultler 

A tragedy when a mature mind 

and a romantic heart are in the 

same body.

-Nizar Qabbani

 You remember your first love because they show you, 

prove to you, that you can love and be loved, 

that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, 

that love is both how you become a person, and why.

-John Green-Turtles All the Way Down

Spellbound

The night is darkening round me,

The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.

The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.

Clouds beyond clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes below;
But nothing drear can move me;
I will not, cannot go.

-Emily Bronte