It's a sad truth that those who shine brightest often burn fastest.

Sometimes you still have to try,
despite knowing it's futile.

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

Your smile resembles a moon's crescent and your luminance is just as iridescent.

Blue things hold a secret of calmness, like the ocean waves or someone's gaze.

And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

For the love of a rose, the gardener becomes a slave of a thousand thorns.

Never let good suffering go to waste.

You know you are in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed.

And it's hard to mourn a death that did not take a life, to mourn a love that was never felt.

Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation.

Maybe we're together in another world.

And death is so certain, an entrance to happiness.

Wrapped in the cloak of rage, I bury the echoes of sadness, loneliness, and whispers of worthlessness, a silent war I wage.

The sea speaks more honestly to those willing to drown.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

I remember, and remembering is like an open wound.

Sometimes you think that you want to dissappear but all you really want is to be found.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.