Author: Of Hearts and Pens

  • The Romantic Calamity Cycle

    In the arms of another, we hopeAs we wake from a lonesome dreamOnly to findThe aching abyssOf a once-filled cavityWe yearn a former’s loveAnd we mourn their riveting touchA look in the eyeA kiss on the cheekTrue love, delivered by dovesBut a dream is not an answerA dream is a…

  • Love: A Tree That Waters Itself

    Love: A Tree That Waters Itself

    Of intangible things that are hard to define, love may rank the highest. Perhaps our language simply isn’t yet complex enough to explain a force that profoundly electrifies the world. So how do we even begin to wrap our heads around it? Maybe love is a phenomenon that isn’t meant…

  • A Place in Your Iris

    A Place in Your Iris

    And even so At the edge of the world Their face now wrinkled Our pace twice as slow Their eyes are just the same As ever,𝖔𝖋 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖕𝖊𝖓𝖘🫀

  • Introducing “Of Hearts and Pens”

    Introducing “Of Hearts and Pens”

    Life can simultaneously destroy and invigorate you – a flame that warms the soul but burns you when left untamed. Will the spirit of life forever drown us, or can we learn to wade its waters and find peace on the shore?  Inspired by personal experiences, I’m here to place…