Susan

Someday, when the evening grows too quiet and you reach across the emptiness for the warmth I used to leave beside you, I hope you understand that I never wanted to become a stranger. I stayed until there was nothing left of my dignity but the little I could carry out ... #poetry #spokenword

There's something beautiful about knowing that somewhere in the middle of an ordinary Thursday, while you're busy surviving the world, somebody is smiling at the thought of you, somebody who has already decided that no matter how long the day becomes, no matter what they've got going ...

I had made my peace with the darker creatures of this world, learned the shape of their shadows and the language of their hunger. I knew which gardens held thorns, which lovely paths led nowhere good, and I had lived long enough to recognize the things that could destroy a man. I knew the ...

There is a grief unlike any other, the kind that comes when you discover that the hands you held for so many seasons belonged to someone you had never truly known. You begin wandering backward through the years, and every beautiful memory feels like evidence of ... #spokenword #poetry

I knew there shouldn’t be another date because I already knew what the next one would cost me. I would have loved her. Completely. Stupidly. Without keeping anything in reserve, and then she would have destroyed me. Completely. Ruthlessly. Maybe she would have tried to love me too. Maybe ...

There are people who leave because love became impossible, and others who leave because your usefulness ran out. Wisdom is learning the difference, but closure is in the moment you stop chasing an explanation from someone whose absence has already given you one. -Samuel Decker Thompson #poetry

You found the empty rooms inside them and filled them with every tenderness you knew, hoping that being loved gently might teach their heart a new language, but in the end, they returned your kindness in the only language they had learned, and somewhere between meeting them and ...

Some people love you like weather, warm when it suits them, cold when it doesn’t, and you spend too many nights wondering what you did to change the season ... #spokenword #poetry

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There are people who hold us like water in their hands, careful enough not to spill us, yet never willing to drink deeply. They walk beside us through every season, offering warm smiles, shared silences, and promises wrapped in delicate paper ...

Sometimes, what hurts the most is not that people leave, it is that they forget how many times you found reasons to always stay. -Samuel Decker Thompson #poetry #spokenword

I think we are standing on opposite sides of the same wreckage, both of us exhausted by the ridiculous business of trying to find love amongst people who only seem capable of letting us down, as if that was the assignment handed to them at birth; to catch our attention just long enough to ...

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The one who was always meant for you doesn’t hesitate, doesn’t wound you and call it confusion, doesn't leave you twisting in the winds of uncertainty. They stay. They care. It’s that simple, and that rare. -Samuel Decker Thompson #poetry

Somebody always leans in harder. That is how it goes. One of you wakes up already thinking of the other, already carrying them like a weight that feels good to hold, like something worth the ache. The other moves easier, answers when they feel like it, keeps their distance just enough, maybe ...

Some men will leave a goddess, other men will stay for a demon. It was never about your beauty, never about perfection, never about the peace you brought into his life, never about how well you cooked, sucked, or fucked. It was always about the man and the character within him, or the lack thereof.

I haven't learned much in this life, but one thing I do know is they've been lying to you, that pain in your heart won't ever subside, they tell you it'll get better with time, but the truth is It'll just find a better place to hide. -Samuel Decker Thompson

I still expect to find you somewhere in my future, to feel that quiet spark when our eyes first meet. From that moment on, I know I will care about everything you are doing, and everything you will ever do. I'll be fascinated simply watching you move through the world, I want to be there to ...

She did not ask him to change, she simply loved him as he stood before her, and in her gentle light something within him shifted, pieces he had carried for years … quiet disappointments … small regrets … they loosened their grip as though they no longer belonged. Her love did not reshape him, it ..

You need not know the ending to begin the story. The pages will turn without your permission, softly, like wind through an open door. There is a quiet grace in not knowing, in trusting what has not yet arrived, in believing that somewhere ahead, regardless of your meticulous planning or ...

Hold no harsh judgment for them; people move through the day dodging one calamity after the next, dropping things they never meant to lose, forgetting tasks like leaves slipping off a branch. It is rarely personal, life is often much heavier than they make it appear, so give them grace. But ...

Love vs Fear Steadfast love arrives softly, like morning through a half open window, not demanding, only certain of its place. It gathers the scattered pieces of you and holds them without question, as if it has always known the shape you were meant to take. Fear is a small thing, really ...

I don’t want to be tied to it, I don’t want to carry it forward, I realized I'm not scrolling through those memories anymore. I’m done reaching back for something that already let go. I’m done feeding a bond that was built on breaking me. I no longer need to return to what hurt me. I no longer ...

OK...I have a mild addiction to Law & Order: Criminal Intent, on Charge! TV from 9:00-Midnight, Mondays thru Thursdays. The Vincent D'Onofrio episodes especially.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Charlie Cox is still fantastic as Matt Murdock and making Daredevil take the backseat in early episodes was a good narrative choice. Vincent D'Onofrio as Mayor Kingpin is not only one of the coolest things the MCU has done, but has huge implications going forward for characters like Spider-Man.