i feel like potential is dripping out of the tips of my fingers
golden ochre spilling across every surface
staining everything it touches
marks and scar of waste to show that all i do is fail
use it use it use it
make use of this potential before it leaves you, my mind screams
use it use it use it
so i do i do i do
and slowly ochre turns to a shimmering bronze
i can't pay it any mind
Aug 11, 2023
Aug 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM UTC
i am not easy to love
i whisper it into the breath i blow across the cup filled with steaming tea
i am not easy to love
i trace the words into the stone at my finger tips as i gaze at the water rushing over the edge of the cliff
i am not easy to love
my mind chants as i open my palm to catch the fallen dice
all this time later, a decade and a half, it was time to write the truth in stone for us both
“i am not easy to love”
Aug 7, 2022
Aug 7, 2022 at 11:57 PM UTC
what is time?
is it the hours my eyes are open
is it the breaths i take between your words
is it the months before we speak again?
does it matter when i still fall in your arms
Jan 3, 2021
Jan 3, 2021 at 12:43 AM UTC
there's only one true love in everyone's life
its what they've always said
it consumes you, eats you up from the inside out
steals your breath and your heartbeats
and almost assuredly they'll love you too
feel all the same things in all the same ways
but im not sure i believe them
because i've loved a million times in a million different ways
some loves are quiet and unspoken
grown from the warmth that thrums in my veins when they smile and thank me for the coffee I brought them
others are the pillars of my soul
made of a consuming sensation of peace when i rest my head on their shoulder
and the rarest of loves makes my heart sing
songs in languages that I could never learn
touches that are followed with three small words
I live to love
in all of its ways
Jun 15, 2020
Jun 15, 2020 at 5:20 PM UTC
run from me darling
run while you can
i'll be here
till the end
oh
find me
find me in your heartbeat
so run
run from me darling
but you know
that im close
run
run from me
i'll be close
don't you know
Jan 12, 2020
Jan 12, 2020 at 2:39 PM UTC
i tidy all the words you've ever said
delicately place them in the box
with all the words i never said
because its time to let you go
Feb 20, 2019
Feb 20, 2019 at 12:23 AM UTC
here and now
i swear to myself
i'll love someone better
next time
Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018 at 11:13 PM UTC
dance with me
under the stars in pale moonlight
skirts catching in our legs
our smiles only a breath part
dance with me
one last time
Aug 15, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 at 10:38 PM UTC
When my grandfather passed I found a butterfly
Yellow and small hovering around my shoulders, lightly kissing my cheeks with every flutter
I walked five feet, then ten. Bidding farewell to my new friend.
And yet, the friend followed me no matter how far I strayed
And so I returned home to my mother, the yellow butterfly following behind
Then her eyes widened with shock, and, a touch of happiness
Her smile turned bittersweet as she pulled me into her arms
'Look dear,' she said, pointing at my new friend.
'There's your grandfather, he's come to visit.' She reached out with her fingers and the butterfly settled on them.
'How could that be grandpapa, Mama?' I asked, curious as ever.
'When a loved one passes, their spirit visit us in the form of butterflies.'
Twenty years since. butterflies have followed my every step.
I've begun to wonder if they announce the passing of a loved one or prepare me for my own
Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018 at 9:38 PM UTC
I can't stop wondering what could've been
If I was braver, if you were shyer
Something in my soul tells me that we fit like puzzle pieces
I feel it in the way we speak with glances
The way your body shifts and moves closer when I'm near
The way the colour blue reminds me of your eyes and warms my heart
There's something about the way you say my name soft but sure
Like you're tasting every letter
I don't know if we still have time.
Jun 10, 2018
Jun 10, 2018 at 10:01 PM UTC