Jess Costalez

Feminist.

Silence rides shotgun wherever hate goes.

[Andrea Gibson @andreagibson]

I spent a lot of years flirting
with my expiration date.
It makes sense—to be wooed
by the finish line of sadness.
Infinity sends me nudes
every day. I won’t deny
she looks amazing, but I’m taken. 
My hand now promised 
to writing every page of my story

except for its end.

[Jess Costalez @JessC4911]

Maybe, just maybe, the seeds of compassion, patience and understanding we have been forced to learn this year will bloom in us bright enough to make the ache worth it. Even the possibility is worth the try.

[Jess Costalez @JessC4911]

❤

[Andrea Gibson @andreagibson]

If only shame
could wash us clean,
but that is never
how healing works.
Nobody ever won
anything from thinking
the whole world was
out of their league.

[Andrea Gibson @andreagibson]

What I know of hate
is that it will never
beat the love out of me.