Me

The Waiting

The impatience fermenting in my fingers deoxygenates my frayed mind, yet I smoke a cigarette to clear the stagnant air. Then I play with chopsticks to pick up a pearl, but it rolls off to the oyster it quickened from. I change clothes to find my statement piece, but a fancy hotel is the wrong place to toss dirty underwear in after lying to strangers and making love in the hallways. I long for a callback, but the seconds keep stripping my will, the only thing I will write down on these napkins, with lipstick, inevitably. --Elda Mengisto

due to personal reasons i’ll be:

I love adding a lil heart or rose or strawberry emoji at the end of conversations. Its like giving ppl a little forehead kiss goodbye.

You're not grown until you know how to communicate, apologize, be truthful and accept accountability without blaming someone else.