MY IDEAL LIFE

Samantha Hope Boulgarides

my ideal life is like feeling sunshine through opaque curtains. My ideal life is waking up and knowing my family is safe. It is writing about the good times more than the bad times. My ideal life is waving to me as it dangles from a parachute 300 feet in the air. My ideal life has clean clothes to wear and doesn’t cry after they get off the phone with their mom. It doesn’t cry because they get to see their mom and not just hear them. My ideal life is bleeding blue ink onto a page I haven’t had the strength to reread in years. My ideal life is holding the hand of every person I meet leaving little fingerprints of blue and black ink overlapping to make a heart.

Digital Photograph.