I hide a river inside my heart
And I bury that heart in the woods
River flows to a waterfall
The waterfall drops into the seas
All the seas make up the great ocean
The great oceans make up the whole world
So no matter where my heart would rest
Waters will flood all the continents
Because my heart couldn't contain them
I hide a river inside my heart
And darling, you will be drowning
Apr 14, 2017
Apr 14, 2017 at 1:54 AM UTC
Everyone swears I'm a tough girl but you don't know that. You've never seen it. I lose all the fight in me in your company and just crash into you easy. Muscles cease to tense up, relaxing. Alcohol tolerance, dropping. I am flirty. I am clingy. I am cheesy. I am jealous. In the safety of you, I allow myself to be comfortable and vulnerable. I find no need to watch myself. They say falling in love is a matter of chance. But I knew I decided on this. In your company, I am safe. In your safety, I chose you. And so I let myself.
Mar 6, 2017
Mar 6, 2017 at 10:13 AM UTC
Because I look at you
And my memory fails me
I forgot other people's silhouettes
Just to give space inside my brain
For the stubble on your chin
The lines around your intense eyes
Where your cheek bones incline and decline
The dews on your lips I like kissing
And how everything adds up
To the face I always miss seeing
I look at old friends
And in idle moments when my head is free
I stare at them and it's like seeing them for the first time
I realize I have not been looking hard enough
Get too caught up with the mundane
The casual talks and dates
Inductive, I go beyond the entirety of the face
And start with the features then zoom out
I am taken aback at how foreign they seem to me suddenly
How many lifetimes do I need to remember everyone else's faces?
I just spent a night memorizing yours
Nov 6, 2016
Nov 6, 2016 at 11:51 PM UTC
Nakakapaso
Sementong kalsada
Sa tanghaling tapat
Bilad sa sikat ng araw
Unang buhos ng ulan
Pagkatapos ng tag-init
Sisingaw ang init
Makakahinga ang lupa
Oct 9, 2016
Oct 9, 2016 at 1:19 PM UTC
It's crazy to be this close to you
And still be angry at the space in between.
Maybe this is why people marry--
To be so close, there's only one of the two of us.
Sep 23, 2016
Sep 23, 2016 at 11:58 AM UTC
Everything our feet step into
We try to turn into homes
If it never quite feels like one
We leave it earlier than
The ones that do turn familiar
Call it homesickness
But we also leave new familiar shelters
Seats warm, feet cold
Sheets messy, faces comfortably ugly
Call it growth and adventure
TL;DR We always leave
Aug 29, 2016
Aug 29, 2016 at 8:04 AM UTC
When was the consensus made
That I was to be every man's safety net
For when they gamble on somebody
Somebody else that isn't me
He was an acrobat who felt his best midair
She wasn't a safety net ready to catch, she is also falling
She is a house of cards tumbling down for a game not worth all the rupees
But a card game needing a gambler all the same
Apr 9, 2016
Apr 9, 2016 at 3:29 AM UTC
The problem is you assumed I was okay
I kept saying I wasn't
I couldn't do it
I need to drop them
But you insisted I was okay
Now I'm showing doing saying
Things you don't approve
Finally you're convinced I really wasn't
I couldn't do it
I needed to drop them
Because I'm still not okay
And you go crazy
With your feisty marching band
No grasp of reality, my reality
Pretending to be a friend
Treating me like a glass about to break
But I don't believe any of it
You only do the things you do
Because you don't approve of mine
And I'm done
I'm done done done
Nov 28, 2015
Nov 28, 2015 at 11:02 PM UTC
1129
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind—
Nov 2, 2015
Nov 2, 2015 at 7:15 AM UTC
Your sadness makes other people uncomfortable,
and so you learn to hide it.
You learn to cope
with humor and ***** and a busy sched.
Your body learns to smile
even when you're crumbling down inside,
to keep walking
even when you wanna fall to the ground in the middle of the road.
You've conditioned yourself to do all this
so well that even when the right people come around
who are willing to take in all your losses
and watch every single tear fall from your eyes,
you don't.
You smile.
You drink.
You keep walking.
But you can only do so for so long... how long
Oct 30, 2015
Oct 30, 2015 at 3:14 AM UTC