Category Archives: Relationships

Pure Emotion

have you ever…

loved soo hard, it hurt
cried so hard it healed
laughed until you cried
felt so right time froze

i have
ryan

Editorial Note: Sometimes, in quiet moments, I recall many memories. This was one of those moments. Somehow, they seemed to all fuse together to form a new memory, a new understanding. At times the feelings I write, though originally precipitated by a certain individual or situation, find new meaning and new expression as my life progresses. The love I’ve had for one finds new expression, heightened experiences, and deeper meaning in another. The pain I felt once can build bridges of understanding. Laughter always soothes the soul and makes things bearable, no one point in my life has a monopoly on that. I experience it with newness each time. And each memory I form is unique and though I can never again live one in exactly the same way, each has beautiful meaning to me, and none can steal that from another.

Talking Shirts

Shirts hanging
People passing
Some ignoring
Some are gasping

Words of pain
Anger & hate
Tales of hope
Tales of tears

Offensive words
Different now
Empathizing
Understanding

Why this hurt
Unthinkable pain
To so many?
Inexcusable

Where was God?
Come bitter cries
Some pass on
Some survive

Survivors live
To tell the tale
To open eyes
A glimpse of hell

The message remains
Stop the hate
Stop the violence
Recreate

Tears welled
Heart stirred
Thoughts changed
Change occurred

Somberly written by Ryan

(Clothesline Project @ UVSC)