“Show me a hero, I’ll write you a tragedy.”

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cor Unum

July 5th, 2022

Grand Central has always been my favorite place in the city

It’s like a heart

Pushing and pulling red blood cells to different parts of the body

People commute through the veins of Manhattan

All have objectives

All have a destination, whether they know it or not

All have a reason

It’s sunlit stars shine so bright even during the day

Just look up and you’ll see

Gods and Goddesses engraved in stone watch as time passes by

I feel connected to this heart

I just feel like an outsider

That these anti-bodies will soon attack

Like I am not supposed to be here

But I admire it all the same

I’ll Try

June 12th, 2022

I see it around me,

I know it’s there, constantly.

But since you left I can’t reach it anymore.

Sailboats, green leaves, shimmering reflections of lights

Refreshing summer wind paired with flowers that make my nose itch incessantly.

Living music, friends, fathers and their daughters giggling in the sunlight.

I can’t help but feel detached,

for you left me sitting here alone.

The only one who understood my thoughts.

Age 19,

Burying her father,

A good man,

Lost.

I don’t know if I will find happiness again,

The happiness I foolishly misunderstood as melancholy,

Without you Dad.

But for your sake, I’m going to try.

Can’t wait to talk to you about it.

I’ll see you, when God allows.

Love you, Megs