By: Katelyn Tijerina When I was eating three meals a day and exercising daily. When I weighed a little more than 160 pounds standing at 5’4” you came to me, put a hand on my shoulder, titled your head and said “I’m concerned for your health” I started to eat less. Three meals became two […]
by: Katelyn Tijerina No school? Awesome! No school? Oh no! I get to stay home with Dad! I have to stay home Dad! This morning Dad made me waffles I stayed in my room until he dragged me out by my shirt My sister and I played Barbies I had to take care of my brother […]
“You point the gun at me as if it’s some sort of threat” The perpetrator stood in confused silence while the laborer went on “You point the gun at me as if I haven’t sat on the cold wood of my apartment and cried, putting the taste of stinging metallic in my mouth, tasting the gun powder, feeling the trigger and willing myself not to for the sake of my mother. You point that weapon and me as if I haven’t wondered how bad it would feel if I swallowed the jumble of pills in my hand. You threaten my life as if every time I am near a railing at a height the thought ‘what if?’ doesn’t float into my mind.” His voice rose and the perpetrator was downright terrified “As if every time I held a knife, I put it to my wrist then dropped it with shaking hands. I have come to close to Death to fear it, Death is a friend I’m all to welcome to invite in,
“Demons run when a good man goes to war” Moffat, Steven. Doctor Who “A Good Man Goes to War.” Season 6, episode 8, June 4, 2011. Kindness is not born out of love. Kindness does not come from sugary sweets that melt slowly in your mouth. Kindness is not made of the giggles and love […]
“A Quarter Life” is raw and true, Mr.Pufpaff talks about the tragedies and hardships of life while using lyrical language…
By: Katelyn Tijerina Every once in a while you must change the way you see things. so in my four wall prison of my household, in the confines of my flour wall room, entwined in the comforter of my four-sided bed; I change the way I saw things. I sat with my legs hanging off […]
By: Katelyn Tijerina I hated myself for no other reason then I was in love. In all her blonde beauty who makes me feel more than myself, Forbidden by the person, I’d sworn my faith. He held me back from what I suspected true happiness was. I met her on an evening walk, she cried […]
By: Katelyn Tijerina I looked at him Like he was a planet,A cause for exploration,Amusement and wonder He looked at her Like she was a star Fascinated by her beauty And captured by her light She looked at him Like he was the Sun An annoyance but once gone Would be noticed It hurt, not that I wasn’t his constellation But that he was herSun and she was […]
By: Katelyn Tijerina Dear Diary, The world has fallen into chaos. Ignorance runs the world. People blindly follow what they are told. Where have the questioners of the world gone? I wonder if this is our future, Transported into books like hunger games and divergent. Stories warn us of the dangers of an all too […]