Ruza Aldin

Joined July 2019

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What I can't tell my family . Content Warning.
Note: Some of this is kept vague in order to keep identities hidden, which is why some titles are repeated. Grandma: You will not live to see the full extent of the hell you have helped create.
By Ruza Aldin2 months ago in Confessions
Here's what might happen when your dog dies:. Content Warning.
You're going to be finding their hair for a long time afterwards. It might make you cry. You don't even want to clean it up. It's a piece of them, and they're gone.
By Ruza Aldin10 months ago in Petlife
How to be an informed voter
It's difficult to know where to find unbiased information about your local elections. Here are a few websites that I've found over the years.
By Ruza Aldinabout a year ago in The Swamp
I don't want to live through another Trump presidency.
When I shared McSweeney's list of the damage that Trump has done, my uncle laughed at me. I thought that the people who raised me taught me about integrity. I thought they believed that lying is wrong. My dad warned me about the sex offender's in my grandma's neighborhood, and warned me that it wasn't safe to walk alone.
By Ruza Aldinabout a year ago in The Swamp
Good Grief
When Dessa first asked, They say there's good grief But how can you tell it from the bad? I had never even considered the question.
By Ruza Aldinabout a year ago in Beat
Assorted Acrostics
In highschool, we were challenged to write poems that read the same up and down as they do left to right. I wrote all of this in one day.
By Ruza Aldinabout a year ago in Poets
Look. Content Warning.
God cannot look at me today. I have sinned, so I must offer a sacrifice to absolve myself. Then he will be able to look at me again.
By Ruza Aldinabout a year ago in Poets
The ache of a wasted life is more than I can bear. Content Warning.
We met at the olive wood, you and I, when you were sick and I was lonely. We found company there, you and I-- but not in each other.
By Ruza Aldinabout a year ago in Poets
young Old Wise fool
I'm a young old wise fool stumbling in light who boldly shrinks yet fights yet avoids confrontation I'm an open
By Ruza Aldinabout a year ago in Poets
the wolves are out. Content Warning.
The wolves are out tonight. They prowl the streets, looking for blood, not satisfied. They will never be satisfied.
By Ruza Aldinabout a year ago in Poets
Waves of Fire. Content Warning.
Fire like waves-- severe passion blossoming, crashing into the walls built around hearts, hardened to protect the tender flesh inside,
By Ruza Aldinabout a year ago in Poets
Just keep swimming
Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Where was that song from, again? Just keep swimming, just keep swimming. The movie. The movie with the... the fish.
By Ruza Aldinabout a year ago in Fiction