Tammy Le

Where is safe?

I’m exhausted with the news lately. Why is it not safe to be anywhere? Your homes, your workplaces, your schools, your churches. Where is safe now? I don’t know how it feels to travel across to ocean, to go to the promised land, to get a new life. I don’t know how it feels whenContinue reading “Where is safe?”

I don’t blame you

I don’t blame you for pulling me down when all I wanted is lifting up to the clouds I don’t blame you you were trying to protect me you said, I was too weak for sailing the big sea. I don’t blame you for trying to stay grounded I don’t blame you for all we’veContinue reading “I don’t blame you”

Rain

If only we can talk about pain as easily as we talk about the rain yes, it was sunny yesterday but today is a different day. No matter what the weatherman said you’d never know what’s coming one minute it was rainbow the next it could be a thunder show. And sometimes, when it seemsContinue reading “Rain”

for dear life

there was laughter there were tears there were times we thought one of us would leave but when the sun reappears we are still here as I volunteer to love you for dear life. t.l.

Cyclone

chances might have brought us together but god, what I would give to know that choosing to stay is like fighting against bad weather swimming upstream with a broken nose driving down the highway with my eyes closed loving you is like chasing down the biggest storm until you get to the hurricane eye it was worth it, evenContinue reading “Cyclone”

shy cat

a shy cat looks out the window it sees the world, the wonders it yearns to step outside to smell the grass to go seek and hide but it’s too afraid afraid of the noise and strangers’ face fighting itself every day one step further to overcome its most terror. t.l. (introvert scaredy cat)

Pearl

oh pearl, turn me into something beautiful swallow me up and spit me out I swear I will be faithful. a grain of dessert sand wishing it was buried deep in the Pacific ocean I know it’s unlikely to meet but will you come and make me magnificent? t.l.

greater love

there’s no greater love than a lover who has been pushed away while you’re running off to Wonderland you forgot how it began, how they stuck by you all this time. you know they will always find a way to be right next to you again and again. t.l.

blue birds

as night falls, and I start to roll with it keep myself in these four walls until the world finally disappears I understand the fears they creep up on you like falling leaves like shivers, like hungry thieves but you mustn’t surrender you are not a fragment of people’s judgement you are not a burdenContinue reading “blue birds”

Goldfish

I have a little goldfish from dusk to dawn, she swims around in her little pond from this minute to the next she already forgot how she was born she asked me, “where do I come from? is it the big sea? or did I come to you in a storm?” she hated when I changedContinue reading “Goldfish”