i'd lap up an apology like it was saccharine nectar.
i beg for my self-worth to be untied, unscrambled,
unknotted from perceptions of
strangers and eyes, that linger
and push inward, scorching my skin.
Lo i remain,
pensive and fickle
begging to be your humble, healing servant.
Please let me help you. Please let me save you.
I'll dash my own bandages from my wounds just to set yours.
Tell me where it hurts.
I tell you to not think of me, i'm not worthy of the thought.
May 22, 2022
May 22, 2022 at 1:44 PM UTC
my old pleasures turn to pain
twist my ankle, make me buckle at the knees
i’m grinding rocks between my canines
i trip up, scuffed up knees
pain roars at the wound
red slowly appears
but all too soon it’s wiped up
bandaged and clean
it scabs in a few days
but the ivory streaks and shadows
those will not leave quick enough
Mar 31, 2022
Mar 31, 2022 at 9:43 AM UTC
i'll let myself fall for you,
sweet apocalypse
proud unshaken sunflower
cream clementine of dawn
cacophony of harmonies.
yours is the sunlight and the joy that day brings
you are the crimson of dusk and crescent of Selene
Jan 23, 2022
Jan 23, 2022 at 2:36 PM UTC
i’m the rook
that took to my branch,
tree of silhouette lightning,
pecking the pelt off my prey
i’m casting them away for the sport of it.
if i take off,
like how the tide that comes and crashes,
foam and salt spitting,
eventually draws back, retreating back to the sea,
i won’t return in the same familiar form.
thorns for feet, a midnight beak.
i’ll take refuge in knowing you shan’t
remember me
but i’m the rook that pierced you,
strung you
hung you on my tree.
Nov 28, 2021
Nov 28, 2021 at 5:06 AM UTC
filling my mouth with toothpaste
to attempt to lift or at least
mask the stench of bitter bile
forced up by the continuous wrenching twist
of my stomach into an infinitely
tightening
knot
Oct 24, 2021
Oct 24, 2021 at 9:26 AM UTC
how many songs you have written
just to get me out of your mouth
Oct 21, 2021
Oct 21, 2021 at 5:46 PM UTC
i may not fall for you but
i'll warm the left side of your bed for a time,
soothe the storm
Oct 21, 2021
Oct 21, 2021 at 5:32 PM UTC
i struggle to put it into words
i miss the scent of the crook of your neck
the place only i knew
planting sweet kisses behind your ear
tangled late at night
each other’s so innocently
Oct 17, 2021
Oct 17, 2021 at 3:57 PM UTC