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I want to write you something. Something that will take your breath away. I want to string together the perfect amount of the perfect words so perfectly that when you read them if you didn't feel about me the same way I felt about you, you would then. I want to sing for you. A song unlike any other. A song whose words only you could appreciate, sung in a language only we can understand. Our own Love song, unmatched. So beautiful that it resonates within your spirit and keeps you. I want to dance with you. From the moment I return home until you beg me to leave you alone which you won't cus you want to dance with me too. Endlessly. Exotically. Excitedly. Earnestly. I want to build with you. Home. Love. Our own traditions and additions to the blindly accepted regimens of life....

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gone

she's leaving today. and she wonders what she means as she writes those words. how much of her is going? how much of her will be here when she gets back. only time will te...

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On the humanities

An excerpt from an essay entitled: Learning How to Learn. (Honors Law Substantive Quarter Paper: The essence, relevance, and importance of the humanities) 14 April 2008. It was Plato who asserted that, "if [one] cannot retain what he learns, his forgetfulness will leave no room in his head for knowledge" (Rosen). And that is the most prominent result of the Humanities method of teaching: knowledge- knowledge true and unforgotten, knowledge of how to think and not just what to think. It has become the heartfelt conviction of the Humanities to equip its students with the tools necessary to succeed professionally, and, considering that we never stop learning, knowledge of how to be an effective learner is essential in any professional's life. It was an academic environment such as this that...

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alone downtown

me, as zach <3 crowded noisy chaotic beautiful downtown single silent serene simple me no camera so I take pictures with my words instead it's ok they hold the memory longest wondering and wandering unlost but unready to meet the found meanwhile a biker I wonder where he's going I wonder where he's been a bird in the distance finds second home in a building's broken barricade the simple things nourish me as I (choose not to) await the complexities of tomorrow I will be here when they are ready for...

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monster in the mirror

this plague, my spiritual leprosy eating at the very essence of me causing me to ignore the other facets of me as this disease starts to define the very presence of me so I stay up at night trying to fight off this devilish need to be wanted and comply, pre-hear wishes and take heed I no longer can allow this desire to consume me but somehow am still attracted to the beauty of he I question how, knowing, I still revisit that place in the comfort of my room I seek understanding the answer arrives and I see her face betrayed by the monster in the mirror so here's my dilemma: I need to be single. It's good for me right now. It's best for me right now. BUT I also need to be needed. Nonono wanted. I need someone to cater to and care for and console and caress and all that. I don't really....

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