“Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and, most disturbingly, caring about nothing.”
— Mahbod Seraji, Rooftops of Tehran
— Mahbod Seraji, Rooftops of Tehran
Life
and all its good and bad and ugly things
scary things which I would like to forget
beautiful things which I would like to remember
—the whole messy lovely true story of myself
pulses within me.
I believe that the sun shines
if not here, then somewhere.
Somewhere it rains,
and things will grow green and wonderful.
Somewhere inside me, too, it rains,
and things will grow green and wonderful.
Sometimes my insides rain from the inside out.
And then I know
I am alive
I am alive
I am alive
and all its good and bad and ugly things
scary things which I would like to forget
beautiful things which I would like to remember
—the whole messy lovely true story of myself
pulses within me.
I believe that the sun shines
if not here, then somewhere.
Somewhere it rains,
and things will grow green and wonderful.
Somewhere inside me, too, it rains,
and things will grow green and wonderful.
Sometimes my insides rain from the inside out.
And then I know
I am alive
I am alive
I am alive
— Eve L. Ewing, from “Affirmation,” in Electric Arches