she catches constellations in
her dreamy eyes.
in daylight, she runs through
tall grass, clovers, cattails
she searches for sunbeams, for
a speck of hope to satiate
her appetite. she
dresses her spiral curls
in dandelions, lilacs,
whatever lives in bloom.
she carries daydreams,
among wounds,
bathes in the creek,
alone, washes them clean.
every muscle untensed,
every fear released
when she walks in a room.
Sep 26, 2024
Sep 26, 2024 at 1:46 PM UTC
here, 26, and by the sea
where my body finds
the first rest it has
ever known
i close my eyes
i go back in time
i travel into the mountains to
find her
myself, a small child,
braided hair and shellshocked
i ask her if she wants to
catch fireflies in a mason jar,
she does so with splendor.
i ask her if she has ever seen the ocean
i ask her if she wants to come with me
i ask her, softly, if she wants to leave
we drive to the coast
she picks the music
she delights in the journey
i arrive and save her
just in time,
that she may never know
the taste of blood.
on her lap, her jar of fireflies,
a little light to
guide us home.
Apr 27, 2024
Apr 27, 2024 at 8:16 PM UTC
i arrive enigmatic,
i carry confusion to
the sane mind,
i carry truth, cut the
curtains, for just a moment
freeze time.
i leave quick.
i leave fingerprint stains
on darkness
i leave bloodstains on
broken paradigms.
i leave lipstick stains
on broken hearts,
and i leave all the same.
i seek within,
find comfort in
the aesthetics of
solitude
sights and sounds
as fresh as rain.
i watch long shadows of
telephone lines,
bending trees
highway signs
blurred and blending
as if one
a landscape of freedom,
the freedom of emptiness,
the unknown.
what is done, is done.
nothing to lose,
no such thing as home.
Apr 14, 2024
Apr 14, 2024 at 12:13 PM UTC
i am free
bottomless as the sea
i used to think
there was nothing
quite as poetic as
a wound
did i forget how gentle
the soil feels?
how powerful the
crashing waves,
how quietly a flower
blooms?
the lullaby of crickets
the warm nights that come in june
and that once in a lifetime
the sun eclipses the moon
Apr 11, 2024
Apr 11, 2024 at 8:49 PM UTC
god said the wage of sin is death
so i've been paying all the tolls and
counting down my breaths
but i feel like we're in eden
naked, unashamed
pure as the day we were born
your touch so relieving
forbidden, sacrificial
and i'm bleeding down
a crown of thorns
Apr 11, 2024
Apr 11, 2024 at 8:46 PM UTC
in the pool of your mind
in the calm of your wave
i sink forever
just us together
floating through tide,
not a soul to save
held in your palm,
the moon pulls us closer
to an early grave
Apr 11, 2024
Apr 11, 2024 at 8:45 PM UTC
static on the television
reminscent of an empty mind
flat lines and falling snow
today i'll sleep away the sun
tell you that i'm doing fine, and
at night go where the wind blows
no sense of direction, no guiding star
no compass to show the way home
i need divine intervention
i've gone too far
it doesn't matter
i don't know
Apr 11, 2024
Apr 11, 2024 at 8:43 PM UTC
in your eyes
a reflection of me,
as if you froze time and
reversed it.
same gifts, same wounds
half blessed and half cursed.
of course it's beautiful,
of course it hurts.
i never met you for the first time,
i just wondered where you'd been
can you unfreeze time,
shrivel up space,
and find me in the end?
Apr 11, 2024
Apr 11, 2024 at 8:40 PM UTC
<b>C</b>radled by night time, stars sharp as syringes
<b>A</b>ngels mingle with demons, shed their wings one by one
<b>N</b>obody cries, no one calls home, no home to call, nowhere to run
<b>I</b> survive into the morning, the sun sets, they say a girl is a gun.
<b>B</b>reaking bread, breaking bones and hearts
<b>U</b>nder the bridge, the train cars pass
<b>M</b>arried to the game, till death do us part.
<b>A</b> quiet pain, the kind that doesn't bleed, but leaves a scar.
<b>C</b>an you promise me you'll think of me when the ugly turns to art?
<b>I</b> bargain with God, I'll change, just let me make it another night
<b>G</b>otta get myself together, gotta get myself right
<b>A</b>Anchored in pure darkness, I can still remember daylight
<b>R</b>egrets don't care the weather, and clouds won't disperse
<b>E</b>levating myself, come back down feeling worse
<b>T</b>raffic passes overhead, together we dig graves, the truth lurks
<b>T</b>his was fun while it lasted
<b>"E</b>verything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."
Apr 11, 2024
Apr 11, 2024 at 8:37 PM UTC
you stole the song off my breath,
you stole the sweet off my smile,
i'll hit this blunt until there's nothing left
and stay hollow here a while,
and there's nothing left
between the forest and the fire,
so i'll watch it all burn down
and just pray the flames grown higher.
do you think that they remember me?
the girl with doll eyes who gave into them endlessly
and covered up their lies.
i was a child,
too small to reach, yet still to big to cry.
sometimes the lesson doesn't teach,
sometimes the phoenix doesn't rise,
and the ash remembers me
as the one who got away.
i try not to think too much,
and there's just not much to say,
and if the sky were to fall down,
how much would it weigh?
on my shoulders, getting older,
but as young as i was that day.
for now, i'll just get high,
stare into the wall,
sink into this place where
there's nothing left at all.
time moves faster every day,
and still i feel so small,
trapped inside this place where
there's nothing here at all.
Apr 11, 2024
Apr 11, 2024 at 8:27 PM UTC