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This piece sits in the tension of wanting and losing, of not knowing which kind of pain will follow. It explores longing, identity, and the quiet struggle of becoming someone you didn’t plan to be, while still choosing to move forward anyway.

A short, straightforward, blunt poem about the internal conflict that arrises when self-restraint and lingering desire collide. Between refusal and want existing at the same time without resolution. It moves through anger dissolving into something more vulnerable, and what remains after the anger fades, and what lingers underneath even when we insist we will not return to it.

A revisited poem from my archives about transformation, devotion, and the strange alchemy of loving someone who feels like they change everything they touch. The Alchemist lingers in that space between admiration and transformation, and the strange way some people can feel like they transmute the world around them.

Written after a night out in Boston, this poem came from unexpectedly finding myself in Mission Hill, a place tied to an earlier version of my life. It explores nostalgia, memory, and the strange way certain places can hold onto who we used to be, even as we keep moving forward.

Inspired by a Robert Frost poem discussed in class (the title now lost to memory), this piece explores the quiet weight of inertia, the ache of stillness, and the pull toward motion and connection. With threads of introspection, Hawaiian language, and poetic uncertainty, the speaker reckons with what it means to remain unseen—and what it might take to move. The meaning is yours to interpret.

After years of doomscrolling and passive consumption, I realized I wasn’t engaging with art—I was escaping from boredom. This post explores how I’ve been retraining my attention, reigniting critical thinking, and learning to meet good storytelling halfway. From analyzing film to letting myself rest without guilt, this is about reclaiming my relationship with art, one intentional choice at a time.