<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:05:03 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@michellpiala/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[There's One day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you ever felt so lost, so numb, that you don't even want one more chance to make up for all those things you've done wrong. You don't want another sunrise to tell you that this day could be it,— the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/michellpiala/@michellpiala/there-s-one-day</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/michellpiala/@michellpiala/there-s-one-day</guid><category><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 02:53:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/54TLbcUcnRm4Bw8fmw3Y3ebiYW61dkW16qTycFmcdcUZhbV3fyy9wNVMfqzgnzsPMGCEj7KXXie6vJN3AWtaZQYA7iwYYwA8VQeDpMzdoKTGBsBTpTfxs9DQBtehZwuX5WiZW7B3C?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Am One]]></title><description><![CDATA[It only takes One to say the 'Pain stops here.'—by taking all the burdens of your ancestors and start tabula rasa.| It only takes One to end the fire in the woods that keeps rolling on generations—creating]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/michellpiala/@michellpiala/i-am-one</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/michellpiala/@michellpiala/i-am-one</guid><category><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 14:53:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eMZ5S6jWg1CktBmG1VLNKm42KJEZVkkCVYi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Sing. You Glow.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I stood at the corner wide-eyed, Can’t fathom the feeling bursting tide. You sing and you glow in the dim light, Everything about you is special as gold—promising like night. You may not know the impact]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/you-sing-you-glow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/you-sing-you-glow</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2020 09:12:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjW4PvRk9nXBzqrPWMsMTjNrXDPFFf11LN6JgekEXfSprFc8KXqioA6vywVKPwPzntXRni8uzs1TuQG5ke7wffCdfd47uvtySRaxDsXhMfMDG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Refuse To Accept]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am disheartened with everything that’s going on. I can’t believe that bigotry, supremacy, racism is still an issue in year 2020. People continue to hate, but why? Because we fail to communicate. We try]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blacklivesmatter/@michellpiala/i-refuse-to-accept</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blacklivesmatter/@michellpiala/i-refuse-to-accept</guid><category><![CDATA[blacklivesmatter]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2020 18:45:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5K2XFM7Z6m9x6cDC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ray Of Sunshine | Spoken Poetry]]></title><description><![CDATA[My ray, you are my darling ray! From a far you are everything but gray; Never would I have thought of your buried truth, How could you be warm while drowning in soot. My ray, you are my sweetest ray! Your]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/spokenpoetry/@michellpiala/ray-of-sunshine-or-spoken-poetry</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/spokenpoetry/@michellpiala/ray-of-sunshine-or-spoken-poetry</guid><category><![CDATA[spokenpoetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:42:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5JyqYHi8okXF3oYz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Ray Of Sunshine]]></title><description><![CDATA[My ray, you are my darling ray! From a far you are everything but gray; Never would I have thought of your buried truth, How could you be warm while drowning in soot. My ray, you are my sweetest ray! Your]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/my-ray-of-sunshine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/my-ray-of-sunshine</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2020 07:23:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5JyqYHi8okXF3oYz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite The Pandemic]]></title><description><![CDATA[DESPITE THE PANDEMIC I am sure we could carry on, for We are God’s people. We are His chosen one’s and we belong to Him. In my life I’ve had multitude of experiences where my hopes were dampen with fear]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive/@michellpiala/despite-the-pandemic</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive/@michellpiala/despite-the-pandemic</guid><category><![CDATA[hive]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 14:25:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5K3iFfhWdAqxK3tJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excerpt From ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive/@michellpiala/excerpt-from-tuesdays-with-morrie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive/@michellpiala/excerpt-from-tuesdays-with-morrie</guid><category><![CDATA[hive]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2020 22:35:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5K2sVMEpqVZsAbzn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Spoken Letter For Ma’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi mama! You look so much like me, I know. Because everyone can tell. The way you smile, the way your nose wrinkles in annoyance and the fear and sacrifices in your eyes. Me, you and my brothers are the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive/@michellpiala/a-spoken-letter-for-ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive/@michellpiala/a-spoken-letter-for-ma</guid><category><![CDATA[hive]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5Jz4cWzh638BpkP8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Split Of The Two Me’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed to nod and says what she's supposed to say, and some other, deeper]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freespeech/@michellpiala/the-split-of-the-two-me-s</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freespeech/@michellpiala/the-split-of-the-two-me-s</guid><category><![CDATA[freespeech]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 23:08:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5Jyx2gCdxnRhFYez?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile Says Hope]]></title><description><![CDATA[I tend to feel stuck and lost in a constantly changing sphere, in a place where everyone seem familiar. 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A book that could make me exhausted and yearning for life that I wanted to live, and at the same time could leave me with so many experience]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bookswerecommend/@michellpiala/orphan-train-or-bookswerecommend</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bookswerecommend/@michellpiala/orphan-train-or-bookswerecommend</guid><category><![CDATA[bookswerecommend]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:28:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5K3S9kxuMxCoJdKU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Princess Even Without A Castle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tell me, did you feel it too? That cosmic connection the first time I saw you? Yes or no, deep in my heart I knew, You're a precious soul—not a hint of doubt, it's true. You've crossed many perilous paths,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/our-princess-even-without-a-castle</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/our-princess-even-without-a-castle</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 10:40:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5K2Uh6WEp2jF3qsc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear Is Their King]]></title><description><![CDATA[I went back to the treacherous city, Back to the place I tried to run away from; Fear is their king of wickedness and madness, Who'd plunge you down deep into the darkness. I have always been afraid, Spend]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/fear-is-their-king</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/fear-is-their-king</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:07:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5K36MaLgUUuFLCUe?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear or See?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I used to hear everything, Noise, laughter, waves, cries, howling of the wind; I used to see everything, Friends, heartache, fear, rain, lovers kissing on the street. Now I can’t neither hear nor see,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/hear-or-see</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/hear-or-see</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:21:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5JynLz6wJmxpgko8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare Her Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[![]I am hurting. More than physical pain. But I have faith. And that’s what keeps me going. For how long? I can’t tell. That’s why I’ll keep on praying. Given a chance, I would like to bargain— Trade something]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/spare-her-life</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/spare-her-life</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2020 21:13:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/NTy4GV6ooFRnQt6V6gjbhkXPNdCHjszxhtMGC5WyaWXx5cBdY65kYnakpQpPTAHYssCUh5QkYp2WtZ6DhH4DdAuVNXtVMLcHv76UQaWZXD5Sr1Yt8EsDQcRksZez1DdH1NDhUU6Y3GvordjTwPFQxdXNCph1hsCyLeNFyDQ2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Full Cycle Of Fear]]></title><description><![CDATA[I woke up from a deep sleep, A tormenting trip inside a long, scary pit, Forced myself to breathe—exist, In fear that I’ll be gone in a blink. It’s crazy how we, people think, Scared of living, scared]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/a-full-cycle-of-fear</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@michellpiala/a-full-cycle-of-fear</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michellpiala]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:33:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Y2iXpRRkNSnseh3NuL6KUBitJTXrc5K2XqTiU1VkrqrYE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>