Author Archives: Tammy Le

told me i’m gold but once the heat went on for too long you didn’t want to stay to check if you were wrong. t.l.

i want a love so pure so transparent, so simple but i crave pain and complexity. i want to be happy but i’m the one who lives in a lucid dream waking up to find myself already dreaming again. i want to less sensitive but a falling leaf can make me feel delighted and wantContinue reading “contradiction”

why is it normal to laugh together and cry alone and not the other way round? t.l.

sadness, like a beating heart everyone is given one whether you like it or not some hearts beat aggressively some go slowly some stay still can we still feel sad after death what is it about sadness that is so irresistible why do the eye water keeps flowing under bridges from a pool of sadnessContinue reading “water under the bridge”

there’s a hole on my tooth and my tongue always manages to find it the human body is so good at finding imperfection like how I always know where to look for the wrong, the bad, and the ugly even if all of my other twenty eight teeth are fine there will always something brokenContinue reading “cracked tooth”

maybe there’s something wrong with me that’s why i’m so comfortable hiding behind these pages, imagination and delusions and scenarios that never happened, i love creating them and i’m getting so good at doing the things that take me far away from reality, melodies and out of tune keys if your don’t listen too carefully,Continue reading “off keys”

Live and let live i have that tattoo as my first, in a language i couldn’t speak even in my dream i knew nothing of this world of how cruel it can be when i’m the only one who can make everything happen all the joy, and misery as long as i’m in control, i’mContinue reading “real”

who are we but little pieces of undone eternity? t.l.

when something dearly is gone forever all you wish was a little bit of touch a little bit of sound a little bit of their sense they must have left some around on the floor, at the corner of the bed at the front door, where they used to rest. you tried to relive theContinue reading “for Miu”

when the light gets too bright we can see all the ugliness all the things we didn’t like we’d rather stay in the dark fooling ourselves with unnecessary things searching for eternity for love from another being we can’t escape death so we kept denying, we’re just a bunch of chemicals existing for a briefContinue reading “meaningful”