I am a bird who wishes she could fly.

I am a bird who only wishes to decide.

I am a bird who dreams of the abyss.


I am a bird who would like to be free –

free to do whatever she pleases.


I can feel the breeze blowing through my hair.


I can hear the wind beneath my flapping wings.

I can smell the scent of beautiful flowers and trees.


I know that one day this will be me.

I am a bird who cannot fly.


I am a bird who is caged inside.

I am a bird who dreams of the world she wishes to see.

I am a bird with clipped wings.


But I know that, someday, 
I will be that bird who is set free.

-Alina  Muradyan

Some people don’t change.
Or is it that we wish something better for them?
Better for everyone.
But they are whom they are;
so is it that
people don’t change,
or people can’t accept them? –
accept them for whom they are,
like we’re supposed to?
I guess that’s the big idea, but
how do you accept those who don’t accept themselves?
Some people never change;
those people just don’t fit in your life.
They can’t be the person you want them to be.
So there you stay,
destined to hope for something better,
but letting go of everything that matters.

- Kaila Bayes

Two strangers in a circle of life,
together tangled in a binding of faith.
They walk alone, trying to find each other,
not knowing who the other may be.

Always, have they been thinking –
thinking of that special person that they want in their life.
But they have not yet found each other,
because they are still walking along the path.

The path takes them here, and not there –
far, but not near.
They keep walking, and walking,
and from the path they never stray.

They know that it will lead them somewhere –
somewhere in which they belong.
They feel the strength of the faith that pulls them together –
a feeling that seems like forever.

Finally reaching the ending point of the path,
they see each other, and don’t say a word.
Their feelings begin to skyrocket;
they run to each other and just stare each other up and down.

They begin to tell each other their life stories,
about how they have been waiting for that person.
Together, forever, is what they said,
and together, forever, they were, until their death.

- by Eric Avalos