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Day and Night

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Apollo really works hard everyday, huh. There are days when the sun shines ever so brightly but there were also days where its light don't reach me. In that darkness and amongst the sea of tears, I was able to realize things that I should. --things that can change me... for the better. I knew from the start that I cannot have everything that I wanted. But not getting what I yearned for happened really frequently now that I think I don't deserve the good things in life anymore. However, it also made me think that what if, I am meant for something greater and that the universe is just saving me from immense pain? "I'll let the universe do it's own thing and i'll do mine." I hope I can maintain this notion as I condition myself everyday. This journey to self love is tedious and hard. But i'll continue to work for it just like how Apollo gets into his Chariot every damn day to do his duties. I'll strive for it just how I did before. Yo...
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Rebirth

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I once heard that hatred, oblivion, woe, fire, and wailing seem to accumulate in a land called Elysium. Each intense emotion represents a river of the underworld in greek mythology. Out of those 5, this one river seemed to capture a part of my longing soul.  Ameles potamos or Lethe.  It was said that souls that would spend the eternity in the greyness of the Asphodel Meadows would drink from the River Lethe to forget about their previous life [1] and before rebirth. [2] In my 19 years of existence, I was sheltered. Not only on the external things in the world, but also from myself. And somehow, I find myself longing for freedom. Liberation from these shackles that confine me from what people expect from me. And what I expect from me . I remember the nights in which I stain my pillows with the tears from my silent cries--because I thought that I am not enough. I thought that I am never enough. In a part of my world dominated by woe, I want to forg...
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