Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.

Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.

A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.

I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.