Our sleepovers consisted
Of playing house and she insisted
That I be the boy
And she be the girl
My first kiss
Was unfinished
We were sent to bed
But not to sleep
We kissed under the blanket
And footsteps interrupted
Then light ambushed through the door
And shame came knocking
On Sundays Leviticus followed me home
Lived outside of my bedroom
And visited unannounced
Just to remind me that it existed
Jun 22, 2019
Jun 22, 2019 at 2:45 AM UTC
It comes fluently
Like a first language
Guilt is the accent I've learned to hide
Letting lies slide off my tongue and fly
Like birds released in a breeze
Can never be seized from the sky
I wish it wasn’t so easy
But the muscles in my tongue have been trained in resistance
Enough to push the weight of all my secrets underneath it
Jun 9, 2019
Jun 9, 2019 at 1:15 AM UTC
Erasing evidence
Is as easy as touching a screen
Checked it off my to-do list like
Some trivial deed
And the memories
Neglected effortlessly
I trampled
The dwindling fire you were bending over backwards to redeem
My burden of guilt released like
Wind and rain
Extinguishing our
Final flame
May 26, 2019
May 26, 2019 at 2:32 PM UTC