Acts of Desperation

by Megan Nolan

Love itself sustains and validates the rotten moments you would otherwise be wasting while you practise being a person,

One of the saddest things to feel is that nothing in the world is new, that you have exhausted all your interactions with it.

How lucky I have been that so much of my pain is from fearing the loss of what I already have,

Wheedling is cowardly, and violent. When you change someone’s no to yes by wheedling, you have stolen from them what does not belong to you.