to my former self My darling, Wipe the tears from your face. One day you'll be laughing as you remember why you cry. It's not as bad as you make it out to be. But you should know this: you're too hard on yourself. You complicate the simplest things by doubting your ability to choose what's right. You overthink and overcompensate for problems that never existed. You don't need everyone's seal of approval to function in this world. It's actually impossible. You're still young, and you have a lot of mistakes to make in order to get as far as I've gotten. But my darling, I beseech you: Keep your head up. Do the right thing, even when it's hard. Learn to let go of your mistakes and let others make their own. You're never going to be perfect, but that's what makes you human. Yes, keep wiping those tears, the ones blurring the view of the beautiful world outside. Wipe them away so you can get back out there and start living.

Live and Let Live she walks into the middle of a crowded room; the room is silent for a moment she begins to dance to music only she can hear in her heart her fiancé watches her body glisten in the light admiring how one girl can stop time another man sees her too he is watching her body for a different reason and when she is finished he follows her and slips a small capsule into her drink twenty four hours later in the hospital room her fiancé is told she died without any pain her body rejected the poison and she slipped into a coma he weeps for his fallen angel he only wishes he would have danced with her on their wedding day just one more time