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Where Are You?
In Where Are You, I explore the quiet ache of searching for what feels lost. The quiet tension between searching and waiting, exploring how we navigate uncertainty, memory. I reflect on the emotional landscape that forms when something important slips out of reach and how the patience required to trust it may return in its own time.
What is Beard Oil? |
2025 Guide to Beard Care Basics
Beard oil is the foundation of a healthy beard. This 2025 guide explains what beard oil is, how it benefits both your facial hair and skin, and how to use it for maximum softness, shine, and comfort. Learn the key ingredients, why it works, and how to choose the right beard oil for you.
Engineered Obsolescence Explained |
How the System is Rigged Against Working People
Engineered obsolescence isn’t just about disposable products. It’s about systems designed to keep people economically fragile, replaceable, and dependent. This essay explores how modern economic structures reward short-term profit, treat labor as expendable, and quietly normalize instability as the cost of participation.
Have We Met Before?
This poem was born from that haunting moment of recognition—the sense that a stranger’s eyes hold memories you’ve forgotten. “Have We Met Before?” is a whisper from another life, a yearning for something lost yet familiar, where love and remembrance blur like shadows across time.
Phantom Limb: A Nocturne |
A Psychological Horror Short Story
I woke to the impossible—my shadow moving without me. The house held its breath as the dark pressed close. Every step deepened the divide between body and self. A psychological horror short story about identity, fear, and the haunting space where the self begins to split.
Still Time
This poem reflects on the quiet spaces between motion and memory—the pause before change, the echo after a dream. It’s about learning to breathe within the rush of time, to notice the small moments that keep us grounded even as everything continues to move forward.
The Wrong Play
I’ve spent my life pretending to be someone else — an engineer, a writer, a version of me that fits what others expected. But when I write, I feel the edges of who I really am, even if the words don’t make sense. This is what it means to question your memories, your past, and your place in the world — and to keep writing anyway.
The Red Flower
I wrote The Red Flower as a quiet reflection on observation and wonder. It’s about the fleeting moments that capture attention unexpectedly, the small details that stick with us, and how poetry can help us honor beauty and contemplation in the rhythm of daily life.
My Untold Story
Through “My Untold Story,” I wrestle with creation, control, and consequence. I watch my characters breathe, stumble, and fade within unfinished pages. This poem captures my intimate reflection on the creative process, the burden of imagination, and the ache of seeing the stories I long to tell remain untold.