jade-louise
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” -Alan Bennett / I am a truth-teller and I want to listen to yours. Your stories are interconnected with mine. I am a Law Student, but I believe in Fairy Tales and rationality and magic and logic all at once. I believe in the beauty of the world being a Paradox. / / The most real things in life are not what we can see, but what we can feel.
There's a part of me
That cannot be bound
By any ties of time & space
It's the part of me
That lives
In all the corners of the world
I've yet to step
And in the hearts of all the people
I've yet to meet
And in all the decades and centuries
that led until the day of my birth
This is the part of me
That aches at night
And wakes me every morning
Reminding me
What it means
To be alive
Sep 21, 2023
Sep 21, 2023 at 2:11 AM UTC
I don't want to give
the monsters in me
A chance to slay you
Before I have my chance
to slay them
Only to find out
These monsters might make me whole
And maybe I will keep them after all
Because maybe these monsters
Fight for the parts of me
You love the most
Sep 17, 2023
Sep 17, 2023 at 5:45 PM UTC
We were like zombies
With coffee running through our veins; and
Unconscious thoughts travelling through our fingers
While the world was falling to our feet
And each day
We picked up our weapons
Our keyboards and our coffee
And we fought
The war of the American dream
Only to wonder
Who we were really fighting for…?
~JLH~
Sep 21, 2020
Sep 21, 2020 at 6:11 PM UTC
It's flower crowns
And shimmering gowns
Its dancing with a broken heart
Looking together
But feeling so apart
It's a mustang's engine coughing into the night
And stepping through the gymnasium's doors
Into the light
I thought Homecoming was about coming home
To everyone else
Not realizing Homecoming meant
Coming Home To myself
Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 2:41 PM UTC
*The universe is full of pretty mysteries
That I can feel, but cannot see
One of those pretty mysteries
This universe has made
Was me*
Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 at 2:00 PM UTC
I sit under the moon
And the night takes hold of me
It steals me away
Until Dawn
It hands me back to the sun
And I will rise for daylight
But in between
Being taken by the night
And being given to the day
I will dream
I will see this earth's
Brightest and darkest moments
And I will see everything in between
I will see it in my dreams
And then I will rise
And I will live in the sunlight
Only to be taken by the night again
And see all the world's color
I see it in my dreams
Every night
Aug 12, 2018
Aug 12, 2018 at 1:38 AM UTC
She had no idea
What she looked like
Until she found herself on paper
She was no longer
Just a collection
Of cells, skins, and thoughts
Limited by
Where she ended
And the world began
Words on paper
Turned her insides out
And the outside entered in
This is how she entered the world
On paper
It began with a poem, from a stranger
The poet's despair, hope, and bliss
Whispered to her own despair, hope, and bliss
The truth of another
Unlocked the truth of her own
Then she dreamt the dreams
Of her most distant ancestors
Her world stretching bigger
The trees began to inhabit her
The truth of their roots
Rooting within her
Writing
Unlocked the secrets of Strangers,
The Secrets of her ancestors
And the Secrets of Mother Nature
And she found herself there
She shared their truths
First she found herself on paper
Then she found herself in the world
May 31, 2018
May 31, 2018 at 4:16 PM UTC
It's when the sun sinks down
When the coyotes start to howl
I feel my thoughts knotting and rising
The web in my brain spreading, criticizing
I want to lull into a sleep so white
That the thinking can't hold tight
Its the time of night
While the world sleeps tight
My body feels the weight
Of my minds loud awake state
"Anywhere but here"
But taking the first step
To going anywhere
Means I must first learn to be here
May 27, 2018
May 27, 2018 at 12:34 AM UTC
*My insides are raging
Like my feelings are on fire
From my fingertips to my toes
Untempered, this flame will be dire
The way I see it now
Is that if I share my feelings
They can make me fly
But if I keep them to myself
My own fire might burn me
Until I die
I go up in a flash of flames
I'm afraid my feelings will burn me
They are so painful
I feel like I can't just be
So I fly with my flames
Instead of just fighting the truth and sitting
I share my light with the world
Instead of flames just licking and spitting
I resurrect from this hole
Like a Phoenix, I light the sky
My flames turn darkness to light
So from fire, I fly*
~JLH~
Feb 16, 2018
Feb 16, 2018 at 11:41 AM UTC
Thoughts fall from her head to her heart
The sky strewn in ribbons of stars
Falling in trails of wishes, such a piece of art
She thinks she’s insignificant, just so small
Just a collection of blood, skin, and secrets
But what if she realized, the sky could fall?
That the butterfly effect was true
That the world existed perfectly
Because of people just like you
~JLH
Aug 9, 2017
Aug 9, 2017 at 7:23 PM UTC