Whenever my soul is calling for expansion, I become fearful and sorrowful. My chest develops this sharp squeeze that lingers for weeks or even months. I get restless and start feeling a stranger to everything and everyone around me.And then is when I know I am done with my learning in that place. Those people, … Continue reading Expansion
Author: Isabela
What We Can Not Say
"I wanted to ask you and tell you not one thing, but a thousand. And while I couldn't do that, the talking did not end there; it kept on going in my mind for what it seemed like years, and it feels as if there is no longer day and night in my life. I … Continue reading What We Can Not Say
Ennui
"I have succumbed to ennui and desperation," he says in a low voice."I can hear everything that you are not saying, and the only thing I can do is stare at you with the hopelessness of a man who is about to die.I must have loved you in a thousand lives, else, how would my … Continue reading Ennui
Nirvana
I was, for over a decade, on a quest for the miraculous. Went looking for shamans, priests, wanderers, and madmen. Spoke to the rich and mighty, walked the paths of those who got lost, went from hedonism to stoicism, made money and lost money, made a fool of myself, fell in and out of love, … Continue reading Nirvana
Poem
Unending Love I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…In life after life, in age after age, forever.My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,In life after life, in age after age, forever. Whenever I hear … Continue reading Poem
NOMAD
If only I would have known that once I am gone, I will be forever neither here nor there. I belong to the world now, and my heart will always be longing for something, somewhere or someone.
It’s in the eyes
"Your eyes have the most beautiful smile."
World
There are songs that have lowered themselves so deep in my being, I have now taken the shape of them. The same goes with books and good movies. You meet with a character that can completely change your perspective on the world. Or you feel how thanks to a good plot or interpretation, an idea … Continue reading World
Untitled
How to measure the depth of a connection? Watch how your best hidden insecurities come to the surface to suffocate you at the thought that someone might see them. Your most horendous fears and firey desires burst out of you in a magnificent whirl. You feel like you've come alive and shot yourself dead a … Continue reading Untitled
The Good in Them
When people are good you just know. And I don't mean the good that is inherent to all of us, the one found beneath layers and layers of anguish and misery and experiences. I mean the good that has preserved itself at the very surface of a human being, despite all the challenges their soul … Continue reading The Good in Them