Writing

it's true, i would miss you.
you wouldn't be a door away anymore, and it would hurt.

Click.

Fawkes the phoenix towers over the Avengers headquarters.
I snap Darth Vader onto Fawkes' left wing.
He laughs.

I wonder-
Has this sliver of light ever felt so warm?

When I was in seventh grade, my teacher put on our desks a pop quiz, and question one was hard, but question five was harder (was the colonization of America inevitable?) and I stared at that question because I couldn't stop thinking about my home

No matter what, it will get better.

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” This is what is stated in the Constitution that every human being deserves — and yet not all of them have obtained it.

Pain. Burning, hot, searing. Invading like a species from two countries away, determined to bring its roots down into the soil of my muscles and live off of my anguish as if it's a parasite.