Fall, the season where you walk outside and find yourself filled with quiet joy as the leaves shift from yellow to orange to red, and...

1511, 1868, 1950, 2019. What do these years have in common? These are dates when our people got tired. Tired of the oppression, of living...

Maybe was the last time? If loving you was easy, why does it hurt me? I watch you leave all the time, but this time it hurts. It’s like I...

Watching that window from my bed. The night there, it’s so beautiful. I love this room. I wake up. I walk down the stairs. It’s 7:00 am....

Illustration: Mihajlovna/Getty Images/ The Guardian I dream about her,  like I’ve met her before.  Like I know how many freckles her face...

Climbing high, in the breeze of the night Circling the unknown, in an endless fight, Fearful of the depths where shadows grow Beating the...

She just wanted fresh air In a night full of despair, She just wanted to be free Like the darkness of the sea, The more numbness she felt...

Playing hide and seek, under the open sky, Heart beating faster, under hidden lies With every new game, a truth unfolds Innocence lost...

I can hear the echo resonate within, The way the sound waves push back at every surface of my body, At every frequent bounce with the...

I tell the night my secrets, My eyes are wide awake And heart barely beating. I tell the night my secrets, My hands won’t stop shaking As...

In an age where affection is a death sentence and loneliness is the cure; where the embrace of a loved one will harm more than help and...

A safe space where one can find tranquility. A safe space where one can find comfort. A safe space that does not just meet its main...

Like a small bouquet that does not have any flowers; just thorns. That is how I see them. A clump of them, but that do not necessarily...