HelluvaGirl

A modern-day Cinderella story. Can’t collect myself to listen to the 2 volume of the audiobook #yawn

Evening:

Mum, are you going to sleep in your clothes?

Noon:

Mum, you just went outside wearing the same clothes you slept in.

Mental note: change. And cut the damn hair.

Pia had one of her brightest moments last week.

We were driving to the kindergarten in the morning and, as I was slowing down at the red lights, she said:

Mummy, those boys and girls don’t know what we want.

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no matter how little
i mean to you
i love you
anyway

for love is not
an object of trade
you give me yours
i give you mine

it is a sovereign state
i’m only a pilgrim to
not an owner
a guest

you enter
in its magnifying light
and all you bring
grows hundredfold

i think i’ll stay
to be a gardener
i’ll weed out everything
not worth to grow

in that rewarding light
i’ll burn dead stems
infertile origins
and aspirations

before i know
there’ll be no you
no property or name

i’m on my way

I look at couples as if they lived on the planet called Mutuality, and I was hanging in outer space, watching the strange species, feeling slightly sick.

I flinch hearing those people say the word “soulmate”. Do they even know the meaning of the word? It feels like nobody knows it but me. And I wish they didn’t find out. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo: intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com