You're allowed

 from Xylia Asteria, posted by Nona

You're allowed to talk about what they did to you

You're allowed to talk about what they did to you

You're allowed to talk about what they did to you

You're allowed to talk about what they did to you

You're allowed to talk about what they did to you

You're allowed to talk about what they did to you

If they didn't want you talking about it, maybe they shouldn't have done it.

Stardust

 From butterflies rising

soulmate stardust...

the universe puts

little bits of stardust in them;

memory dust...soul traces...so we can know.

ones that say things like...

i remember you. i've been looking for you.

i couldn't come here and not find you...

i had to find you. i am for you.

and when we're near them,

they don't have to say a thing;

we feel it in our senses...

we just know.

Serendipity

serendipity

one night a star exploded

and it split right in to two

and each part became a person

one was me and one was you

we shimmered down to Earth

and lived our individual lives

but one day serendipity

decided we'd collide

your face felt so familiar

and every time you spoke

it sounded like a harmony

a song I'd always known

it was like you were an ocean

that I wanted to explore

but the waves I surfed, the depths I swam

I felt I'd swum before

it was just like I knew nothing

and yet everything as well

as if me getting to know you

helped me get to know myself

I think the universe intended

and had planned it all along

to return me to your ocean

to your face and to your song

see, it's not that you completed me

for I was never half

but it seems like the stardust in our souls

could not be kept apart

~Becky Hemsley

Finitude

 Let each sunrise

be an invitation

to live more fully.

Let every sunset find in you

a grateful and reflective heart.

These days will not last forever.

They are precious

in their finitude.

~John Mark Green

Three things

You can tell a lot

about a person

by the way they handle

these three things:

a rainy day, lost luggage, and

tangled Christmas lights.

~Maya Angelou

No one crueler

To whom do I owe

the biggest apology?

No one's been crueler

than I've been

to me.

~Alanis Morissette

One letter

loving and losing:

different only by

one letter and 

a million degrees of pain.

~jessica katoff