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CJ Feb 2022
When I leaned on your chest
your heartbeat was racing
I held on to that bliss
Nevermind if this is temporary

With your hand on my hip,
we were going places
I didn’t need anything else
And in that moment,
I felt truly alive


-c.s.
CJ Jan 2022
I keep going back to old messages
Your pesky reminders
Check-in calls
Pictures and all
They’re all very dear to me now

I could vividly remember
holding your pale hand
Kissing your cheek
Hugging your frail body
And telling you I love you, endlessly

You’re up there,
and that is clear
I just find it surreal
that you’re not here

-c.s.
#loss #sadness #reminisce
CJ Dec 2021
Don’t get with a writer
if you’re not gonna stay
because she’ll remember your eyes
piercing into hers
Your lips—
the words you whispered
in your candle-lit room
and the smell of your hair
as you both fell into the night
So don’t get with a writer
if you’re not gonna stay
because she’ll make something
out of those sweet nothings
and she will write about it
until her mind bleeds



-c.s.
CJ Nov 2021
There were tears in your eyes
the last time we said our goodbyes
and you held us
in your fatherly embrace
there at the airport
you were our escort

But now there are tears in our eyes
because why does it have to be your turn
to say goodbye?
all we are is just agonizing, endless rivers of sorrow
everyday wondering
if you'd still be there by tomorrow

- c.s.
#sorrow #goodbye #hurt
CJ Nov 2021
It's 4 a.m. and I'm feeling kinda blue
Here I am thinking---
how I just wanted to get to know you
But you made your way out
with same old excuses I have heard before
You made your bed, gave empty promises,
then proceeded out the door

Maybe I'm just sad
about how easy you gave me the butterflies
If only I had listened
when they told me they were nothing but
mere illusion and pretty lies

Or maybe I was too naive
to believe again
that I could find it in you
I was only hurting myself with ideas
that were too good to be true

- c.s.
#heartbreak #love #disappointment
CJ Nov 2021
One day,
she stopped believing in their narrative
when the reasoning---
---or rather excuses
started sounding like sloppy fiction
When the words that held her
didn't parallel with his actions---
and when she saw how
his persona
turned out to be
just her wild imagination


(051121)
-c.s.
CJ Nov 2021
I will never forget
that rainbow on the balcony
your voice on the line
for the first time

Beautiful and tragic, isn't it?

It would've been you
could've been me
Oh it would've been heaven
and today would've been seven



(041721)
- c.s.
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