1. Stress constricts my chest, pulling my center downward towards the pavement. Viewing the excitement of others brings out happiness, yet an indifference that hides the pain taints the clean canvas as a drop of black ink. What of my existence? All ideas and possessions pulling at my heart string are too weak to carry: they must go. My hands forcefully rip the culmination of a past, that took and gave and left, to nothingness. My mind is aware of the empty chaos it spouts, yet the useless, torturous words keep on stretching the fragile ball of sanity left. My heart is unaffected by the rainbow of love and happiness. Fear and hopelessness and indifference and anger murk the waters and refuse to be drained. My body, full of survival needs, leeches the remaining love of those who swore to create a lovely, contributing lady and bring her to life. What conspired instead? What took root, only to detour and wilt? Of my path, i witnessed taunts, judgments, aspirations, messages full of love and anger, bystanders and proactive personalities, divides, fights, tears, hugs, kisses, and ideas. I have desired many different things; those seem of long, long ago. I have since given up on keeping up with the trivialities, feeding fire into one side or the other, simply subscribing to a passionate self identity and self worth. I do not know of many things; rather, I "wing" and "dance" and "laugh" and "observe" my way, knowing that my view is biased and temporary and extremely narrow sighted (unless those words provide more delusion?) and perhaps clown like altogether. I recognize my extreme sensitivity to even a single word uttered. The world has presented itself to me as a drama show: one that many create additional conflicts, highs and lows, and overall stress that I'm too tired to even care about. The words "pathetic" and "lazy" and "ungrateful" come to my mind, bluntly explaining my regression with a chop of a knife. People's advice fills my ears, appearing as a righteous, authoritative box of chocolates meant to sooth me, yet turns my stomach inside out and messes up with an already fragile being. Work piles up in blank pages, reflecting the 'pathetic' void already inside me.