Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.