Green
Like moss, ripe avocados and my favourite sheets
Brown
Like oak, roasted chestnuts, and tasting chocolate on your tongue
Blue
Like the ocean, your boxers and the sky just after sunset
Oct 20, 2023
Oct 20, 2023 at 12:32 AM UTC
You sit and admire the flowers so long
That you start to spot the thorns
But you smile and smell them anyway
With hands made to stand firm
You loosen and tug the weeds out
Allowing space for new growth
With seeds you collect and plant
Building my garden
better than I ever could
Oct 19, 2023
Oct 19, 2023 at 11:50 PM UTC
I collected the parts that people liked
Dug up the roots to see how they grew
And planted them in my own garden
So when you say my garden is beautiful
I say thank you but I know
Because I built it for you
Dec 7, 2021
Dec 7, 2021 at 11:13 PM UTC
I saw you today
I saw you slip your hand down the back of her spine
You did that to me before
I saw you smile and laugh and make jokes
You did that with me before
I saw you in the way I wish I had seen you all along
A preditor picking his next victim
I saw you try to make eye contact with me
My hands shook and my breath caught in my chest
It wouldn't have before
Oct 23, 2021
Oct 23, 2021 at 10:57 PM UTC
Covering ourselves in night cream, we fight our wrinkles, and buy anything that says anti-aging.
We want our skin to stay frozen.
Frozen in a time when we didn't even appreciate the glow of young skin.
Spent our entire youth hating what we saw in the mirror and doing everything we could to keep it covered.
Under thick masks and dark outlines we tried new products, techniques, designs,
Searching for one that made us feel pretty.
We let - no - we pay doctors to stick long needles into our soft features and change them with chemicals making us less human and more plastic
and that's just our face
our bodies? we do so much worse
Starving ourselves till our heart shrinks in the only thing running through our brains is you are fat, you are fat, you are fat, and who is to blame us when everything we see is telling us to believe that
“I run so I can eat” “I work out because I love food”
These words are printed on shirts that we wear when we should feel powerful but instead send the messages that you don't deserve to eat unless you earn it
Burning every last calorie until we are empty again
We work so hard on fixing our bodies, but maybe that's not what's broken maybe the repair work is needed in our heads and in our hearts tweaking until we can find a connection of love between our bodies and our minds.
The same genuine love you have for your mom, or your dog, or your daughter
Unconditional, Everlasting,
When will we learn to love ourselves?
Oct 23, 2021
Oct 23, 2021 at 10:45 PM UTC
That’s the secret trick
But then again
There are some nights
That even when you flip,
And lay back down,
Some tears soak through,
But then again it’s just some nights,
Flip the pillow over
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020 at 11:15 AM UTC
His eyes are pale blue oceans that shimmer with the sun,
they look right through me and there's nowhere I can run.
His breath is cool against my neck and sends shivers down my spine,
I'm drunk off his words and his presence blurs my mind.
Like tunnel visions, all I see is him,
and when he's gone all I feel is where his hands have been
Feb 28, 2020
Feb 28, 2020 at 4:21 PM UTC
The sound of your breath steadies me, it makes me feel alive,
It makes me notice my own breath and the way I feel inside.
Your part in my life reassures my that I am really here,
Without you, who's to say I didn't make it all up from fear.
Feb 28, 2020
Feb 28, 2020 at 4:12 PM UTC
I cleansed my sheets of you today
Spread out the sheet and tucked in the corners with extra care
Laid a blanket down, taking a moment to spread my hands across it, feeling the softness
Crawling into it felt odd at first
I knew you weren’t in it anymore
You weren’t wrapping yourself around me and keeping me warm while I slept
You weren’t protecting me from the world around me so I could have a moment at peace
That wasn’t you anymore
So now I have these sheets
Clean, fresh, warm, and not you
What a relief
I pull the sheets in closer, closer
Breathing deeply into them and asking them to keep me warm and safe
Holding me all night while I try not to dream of you
Nov 25, 2019
Nov 25, 2019 at 1:35 PM UTC
Kiss me passionately
Like your lips
And my lips
Are our lips
Flowing in synchrony
Pushing hard against each other
And pulling away in the most
Tense moments
Breathe in me
Take me and hold me above the ground
While I drown in you
And the water
Pours from my lips
Just from the touch of your kiss
Nov 25, 2019
Nov 25, 2019 at 1:21 PM UTC