"Snow White" (a smartphone photo)

"You lovely pain" (a poem)

*Note: This poem was written during a migraine crisis, when I was lucky enough to be functional. Maybe these words was a way for me to curse the pain away, maybe....

Dear pain,

you who run through my brain

and you're warming up my blood

You lovely pain,

that your voice, so sharp,

is puncturing my ears

Dear pain,

you I can hear in silence

calling my name

You lovely pain,

that I can feel your touch 

upon my so fragile skin

"Again, and again, and again" (a poem)

You can stab me

again

and again

and again

and for as long as you like

Twisting the blade making sure that I won't survive

But I will rise

from the ashes you burned down

Each single time

I'm going to pick up every piece,

reassemble and rise

again

and again

and again

You can stab me 

as long as you like

but I'm ready now;

ready to fight

The chicken with the big dreams

And that's the phrase I used to describe myself to someone the summer that passed.

I'm a coward, a proper chicken, 

but there's a certain point when you'll have to toughen up, exit your comfort zone and do something to come closer to the things you want from life.

It takes courage, faith, work and good breathing,

 but then when you stand and you see (literally or by imaging it) what you've done you feel....

like a totally powerful person, 

like anything can happen, 

like you can accomplish anything,

 like happiness (well not "like", it's pure happiness),

like "if it feels so nice why I spend so much time chickening out of it?!",

like you finally got it (and definitely not by chance)!!

And you're reading this from the girl who was too afraid and insecure to have her own band, to show off her art, to sing something she wrote in front of others, maybe sometimes to lay eyes on a guy she really liked, to think herself as an artist, to follow her 100% real goals for life...

but so long.....!!

What's coming next?

Cause I'm ready.

"The memory" (a self-portrait)

"The Umbrella Story"

To my friend (you know who)...

It was a summer night, a couple of months ago, and I was sitting in my living room with a friend who had an issue with a guy. I could put myself in her shoes and I payed attention to what she was saying.

 So, as we were talking, at some point I was laying back in my armchair, cool, drinking my soda from a glass with an umbrella on top (the ones they put on cocktails) and looking at my friend thinking that "oh her problem was tough and I was so lucky to be free of this kind of problems for a while
(during that period I wasn't so much interested in getting involved with anybody and I was all about myself and being free of guy problems and stuff).

It turned out that later on I would have the same problem she had.
And the times I remembered that moment with the umbrella drink in hand are soo many!

For one more time I realized that in life, whatever happens to the person next to you has great chances of happening to you too.
It's a "you-'re-next" thing.

Two lines by Brothers Grimm

From the moment I read these two lines I fell in love with them. 

They have become something like a mantra for me, 

sometimes I even quote them out of the blue, just because they're so lyrical and perfect!