My Garden

in the sun and in the rain
and in the day and in the night

pain is a flower
pain is flowers

blooming all the time.


- Charles Bukowski

The Flower

Each wound is perfect,
encloses itself in a tiny
imperceptible blossom,
making pain.

Pain is a flower like that one,
like this one,
like that one,
like this one.

- Robert Creeley

Star

Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.

To Love

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.

― Arundhati Roy

I'm the one

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

― Jimi Hendrix