It has been a simple truth for me, the realization that even I, the secure, take all I own for granted, wanting more people can end up with nothing. The push of debt, struggling from pay check to pay check, cutting back in times of hardship. The truth lies in front of us: we are the homeless people, the ones living in poverty, the ones that search for the next meal, and in an instant of circumstances, we are the homeless. People no different than ourselves, families no different than our own. The faces that we turn ours from are the reflections of the reminder that we could be there too.
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Edge of Becoming
Looking down from the edge, I feel bravery rise inside the vastness— alarming echoes of the past ringing through my chest. I take a brea...
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If I sat quietly inside my mind, I might be able to pinpoint the absolute. If I stir up the passions and beauty of all that I feel, I could...
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My lips are wet, tasting the honey of passion. Moist and tender to touch, sensuous prowling for desire. Enter the suggestions I have see...
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I reached forward to take the hand, a saving hand of encouragement and strength. With all my doubts and pity for my every cell, I took it a...

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