The Voice That Couldn't Stay Silent

I wrote these pieces during my adolescence, when everything felt permanent and feeling too much was simply the way I existed. I loved deeply, sometimes people, sometimes illusions. I held on to loyalties that were never returned. I stayed silent when I should have spoken, and those silences slowly became heavier than any words I could have said. When I did not know what to do with everything I was feeling, I wrote. Years later, I returned to that colorful notebook without knowing what I wou...