Artist Sarah Long

She says, “life calls you to ask.” So you have an experience and it makes you think things, and those thoughts about those things cause the effect of feelings, also known as emotions….

I could never be in love with you because I was always with time. Either I was running out of time or running with my time lines and deadlines, or cutting myself off…

I know they think I’m strange. I don’t dress up much and I don’t go to Starbucks and I don’t talk to people about things that suck. But what they don’t know about…

Love can’t exist when fear is in the way… Fear. The separate self… The voice that tells you lies about who you are and what you’re capable of. The voice that wants to…

Like, you know the feelings of a new crush? When it’s so fresh and the sex, it’s so good at first. So you want it all the time and it feels like a…

I wasn’t always this way. But. People change. Or do they? Maybe we just become byproducts of who we think we should be. I dunno. I’m just daydreaming’ about all the things I…

The lines around my eyes that hides the pain I’ve been in… But I don’t think about my lines the same way I did. Now I like my lines. They remind me of…

My peach pale skin with blemishes from the zits I had when I was a kid… From all the sadness and all the anger. All the grief that built up inside my lungs…

I put makeup on today to cover up my face, that way there, when other people look at me, they won’t see what I see. They’ll see what I want them to see….

I put makeup on today to cover up my face. But I know it’s not the real me, and now I wonder why I would do such a thing. Maybe it’s me trying…