Kara Troglin

this night is all too familiar for me.
the loneliness of my cluttered apartment, the soft eery glow emitting from the kitchen, cool silent air seeping in through the windows.
i feel it in my bones again. it won't go away. it's never gone away.

the tears, the choking and screaming, collapsing and laughing.
moods like the changes of the season.
her darkness a secret to the afternoon.


i'm living with my loneliness again, something i've known for far too long now.
a young single woman in her dreamlike world.
a garden growing inside of her chest
like love sprouting itself around her.

i woke up and this is who i became.

lovely. complex. mad.

everyone thinks they have figured out the lives of those around them, but little do they know that this young lady, this one right here has fooled you with her smile.