Already buckled in the backseat
I’d want to come to the grocery
And while you’d push the basket
I followed after so closely
We dug up weeds and planted poppies
Gold and vermillion
And I remember I felt my heart drop
When you said you can’t be friends with your children
I remember thinking
If you can’t accept me then how will I accept myself
you taught me everything
If you can’t accept me how will I accept myself?
And I’m not gonna get my confirmation
But I really want to make you proud
I know it’s not what you expected
It’s harder to say some things out loud
I didn’t get the chance to tell you
She told you before I could say a word
And then I didn’t want to talk about it
I ran away, I lost my nerve
You gave me all the space I wanted
That was four years ago
until it seemed like you’d forgotten
Until I moved to Chicago
And I was thinking
If you can’t accept me then how will I accept myself
You taught me everything
If you can’t accept me how will I accept myself?
And I just want to feel accepted
But I really want to make you proud
I know I’m not what you expected
It’s harder to say some things out loud
Dec 26, 2020
Dec 26, 2020 at 2:11 AM UTC
i pull away
i don't know what to say,
it's too familiar
my apprehension
at simple questions,
at gentle whispers
we'd spend our evenings
chasing feelings
we'd try to capture
hypnotized
by those lattice lies
we manufactured
but i can't talk
i missed so many calls
and i can't think
i just can't get involved
i'm on a break, i just can't take this,
i'm suspending consciousness
my reality
has lost all consonance
but, oh,
there's nothing much i miss
and, oh,
i just wanna stay like this
Sep 22, 2020
Sep 22, 2020 at 12:02 AM UTC
a deterministic acidity
encircling, dizzily,
with futile steps and fruitless glances
I took my chances
and still I managed to glue on a smile,
at least, until the train
Jul 9, 2020
Jul 9, 2020 at 10:14 AM UTC
Vermouth turns to vinegar
Her sweet youth imprisons her,
A reverie soured with age
Jun 13, 2020
Jun 13, 2020 at 1:35 AM UTC
Her gaze got the best of me
Burning bright and mahogany
Conversation-soliloquy
I framed my fervor in filigree
hollow gestures, a pantomime
She just wanted to pass the time
Nearly twenty, too juvenile
To be anything more than tactile
A crowded room, a compact tableau
I still look for her where I go
A stubborn habit, it’s hard to quell
Maybe too callous, but I meant well
A little less than fortuitous
Resolution eluded us
Two strings, discordant synchronies
My pride, my wounded dignity
Sep 6, 2019
Sep 6, 2019 at 7:01 PM UTC
Her breath was halcyon
We were my axiom;
I was her peace
Piecing pictures out of nothing
Pretty words, I caught her bluffing
Then the release
Jul 31, 2019
Jul 31, 2019 at 11:06 PM UTC
Peel me mangos
And the pain goes and mixes with the fruit’s sweet flesh,
Dripping fresh and bitter-sweet
You still come to me when I’m asleep
to whisper pretty nothings in my ear
until my brow sears each passing thought with your image
I imagine you as timid as at our first meeting, as bold as at our last, your laughter repeating on and on and on
on our last day you kissed me sweetly, the taste of mango on your lips
Jul 24, 2019
Jul 24, 2019 at 10:27 PM UTC
Come under the mango tree
In its shade she is waiting
Singing songs of the past
Bitter, bitter poetry
As the sun goes on blazing
As her eyes turn to glass
Jul 24, 2019
Jul 24, 2019 at 5:54 PM UTC
I ran from you as fast as I could
Bitter wormwood on my tongue
Like a violin unstrung
What is my purpose
Was it on purpose?
To think that we could stay the same
My burning cheeks, my hidden shame
I still am wordless
May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019 at 1:04 AM UTC
i’m a flytrap in Saran Wrap
Definition clingy
shouldn’t be satisfied to be qualified
as the gum that’s stuck to your shoe
This anxiety could be all from nowhere
It might not be real
But honestly and actually
it’s just how i feel
Apr 22, 2019
Apr 22, 2019 at 4:22 PM UTC