"Why one writes is a question I can never answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me – the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.
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"We also write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely … When I don’t write, feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing."
('The New Woman', 1974)

Faster, harder, better, stronger.
Not too sure that I'll last much longer.
Smoke in the air, clear my mind.
Higher and higher, where you'll find
Places you have never been before.
Keep you wanting more and more.
A feeling like this, eternal bliss,
Is it possible for it to actually exist?
Escape from reality once more,
Running from my mind, all thoughts out the door.
Take me away to another place,
A different time, a different face.
Just me, myself and I,
Spread my wings, and watch me fly.
Fly away, higher and higher
From this burning passion, this aching desire.
Wanting, needing, begging, pleading,
These feelings I have are not deceiving.
My heart, my mind, my body, my soul.
All of these things which make me whole.
Only needing your touch to fulfill what is inside.
Brace yourself, hold on for a wild ride.
Light and dark, brilliant yet unknown,
Dare you delve deeper into what I have sown?

Art
Bounces  
Calmly in a blissful
Daze.
Enlightened thoughts
Feathered with blackened
Grace.
Haunting lullabies
Illuminated by crying
Jokers,
Killed by shattered
Laughter and
Melancholy
Nights.
Oppressed by
Parasitic critiques,
Quick to judge the
Ravishing and
Sentient
Topics.
Unsuspecting to all, we
Visit the bleak and cold
World where
X-rays replace the blistering,
Yellow sun, and overshadow the
Zealous moon.

I am
      just a
               lovable ghost.

This name I get called by my host.
Here one minuet...
                                  gone the next,
   Though
                          I never came,
                          and never I left.

You will never know,
The pain you left me in,
I thought I was over you...
But I'm not.
It still eats away at me,
From the inside out.
It's like I'm rotting away,
And it's getting worse and worse.

One million me memories and,
One million tears.
Cause by you,
And you alone.
Make no mistake,
You did what I thought impossible.

You broke my heart.

I always wonder why it still hurts.
Even after all these years,
You still manage to make,
One million memories,
And one million tears.

I wish you could know,
How much you hurt me.
How you ruined me,
How you stifled my trust...

I'm beginning to think,
The wound you left,
Will never heal,
And the pain is unbearable.

But don't worry,
I don't resent you,
Nor do I regret our friendship,
Because they are part of my one million memories.

All I hate,
Is that they come,
With one million tears.

Your eyes aren’t eyes.
They’re bees.
I can find no cure for their sting.

Your eyes aren't eyes
They're telescopes
The deepest layer of my heart  I cannot hide

Your eyes aren't eyes
They're knives
I cry when it pierces my heart open

Your eyes aren't eyes
They are bows and arrows
I can be an archer's fan in archery sport

Your eyes aren't eyes
They're home
I can see how wonderful my life  in there

Your eyes aren't eyes
They are magic potion
I melt I die upon a gaze of your eyes..