I Am Buraot

I awoke with the sounds of it. The door was being rattled, and the knob was shaking violently. The panes are getting hammered it seems by swooshing cloaked hands. I looked around to see where I was. From the window I could see the giant tree across my window swaying hard on its sides, like [...]

I was a kid when I saw on TV this woman dressed in yellow, wondering why lots of people are hovering all round her. Endless confetti kept pouring like rain from the cloudless skies. Millions of people swarming all over the streets, flashing their smiles and their hands with the “L” signs. Their loud chants [...]

It was a desolate wasteland, a mix of hot sand and ragged dirt. There was no air except for the few occasional breezes that blow like hotter than summer. From the broken cracks on the ground, you can see the scorching air rising up above it like debris trying to flee a burning magma. Even [...]

I have traveled the Great Plains… With endless corn fields and cascading hills of greens. I saw the crops sway back and forth with the invisible afternoon breeze. I could see more cows than people. But the people are friendlier and very eager to see another soul. The skies are always clear, free of polluted [...]

During the entire course of my life I have faced the most formidable things there can be: choices. I have had to face it, not once, not twice, but so many times I could hardly remember. Why do we have to choose? Why do we have to ponder deeply, and waste so much time, effort [...]

I have a dream. I dreamed of lilies and wildflowers that have begun to spring on the dry desert sands of the gloomy northwest. The immaculate smell of freshness fills the waterless air that roamed the land for centuries, reinvigorating it with new flavor and crispness like raindrops till the arid wasteland. I could hear [...]

I tried to rearrange things. My fragmented thoughts, unsettled mind, unbalanced life. I still am trying to pick up the pieces. Shattered dreams, hopelessness, and the battle with pessimism. Honestly, I do not know where to start… Life itself is overrated. Hyped up and glorified like a wonder drug you often see on commercials. Death [...]