Those lies you spun like a spiders web
Took place, built homes,
Inside my head.

I'd spent so long searching for the light outside of me,
I almost didn't notice
It shining from within.

She pinned me to the wall
Breath heavy, legs a p a r t
Like the most beautiful canvas
Begging for art.

There are no words, no carefully stringed sentences, no clever use of metaphors, alliteration, punctuation and full stops,
that allows us to crop and capture,
the rapture,
of love.

Without even trying
She commands my attention
Her body and mind
The worlds most beautiful inventions
And I have every intention
Of showing her
Just what a masterpiece
Every inch of her
Is.

I can give you everything I have, but it will never be enough; because right now you're not enough for yourself.

When waves of sadness washed over me
And began to pull me under
You taught me how to swim.

Take all that love and care,
You have to share,
and give them to the person who needs and deserves them most,
the ghost
of yourself.

I take my hands
And lace them tightly around your trembling heart,
I pull you in close
and promise you a fresh start
using
hand picked words of art
you place your palm
in mine
as we embark and unwind
the knots within your mind
together we find
solutions for the pollutions
that others have left behind.

Home is
The scent
The taste
The feel
The sound
The sight
Of you.

Loving her comes as naturally as breathing,
I inhale her and exhale her
Every single time.

My free spirit got swept away by the wind
i haven't been the same since.

Just the sound of your voice
Causes the corners of my lips
To rejoice
Upwards.

And til the ends of eternity,
shall i carry your heart carefully,
inside me.
Til the stars no longer shine,
til poetry no longer rhymes,
shall i hold your hand in mine.
Til the sea, no longer meets the shore,
shall i love you today, tomorrow and
forever more.

Every time we kiss I taste happiness on my lips.

just because you can't see the stars it doesn't mean they're not shining.

You make the ordinary extraordinary.

And being in your arms
felt like coming home
and there was no scent more reassuring
Than the sweet smell of your cologne
as it enveloped me
in sanctity, security,
as the purity of your love
set sail so gently
upon my frail, abandoned, shipwrecked
body.

This applies to every single one of you. No matter how little you may believe you are worth, I swear to you, you are worth more, way more than you could ever imagine, in your wildest dreams. You are worth the same as those you value most, that girl with the body you aspire yours to be like, those people that you envy for being so naturally beautiful, your closest friends, your family. You are worth every piece of happiness, hope and health. I promise. You are not a diagnosis or a statistic, defined by criteria, percentiles and numerical figures, no. You are so much more. You are more than the inches around your waist, the abs on your stomach, the lbs that creep up and down on the scales, the self defeating thoughts, the highlighting of your insecurities, the constant regrets.
You are the air you breathe, the laughter that slips between your lips, the fight that you said you had ran out of months ago. The love you share and feel, the smiles that sweep across your face, those moments where happiness feels so close that you can almost taste it. You are daylight, the sun, nightlife, clubs and music and drunken confessions. You are a shining star, the scent of your favourite perfume, your most treasured memories crammed into ink and squashed between frames.

Never doubt that you are more.

2013 ©

Throw down your ammunition
i have enough to tear myself apart.

I want to feel
my legs shake,
as you create an
earth quake
inside of me
that'll leave me quivering
for days.

You pulled the foundations I'd spent years forming
Right from under me

This applies to every single one of you. No matter how little you may believe you are worth, I swear to you, you are worth more, way more than you could ever imagine, in your wildest dreams. You are worth the same as those you value most, that girl with the body you aspire yours to be like, those people that you envy for being so naturally beautiful, your closest friends, your family. You are worth every piece of happiness, hope and health. I promise. You are not a diagnosis or a statistic, defined by criteria, percentiles and numerical figures, no. You are so much more. You are more than the inches around your waist, the abs on your stomach, the lbs that creep up and down on the scales, the self defeating thoughts, the highlighting of your insecurities, the constant regrets.
You are the air you breathe, the laughter that slips between your lips, the fight that you said you had ran out of months ago. The love you share and feel, the smiles that sweep across your face, those moments where happiness feels so close that you can almost taste it. You are daylight, the sun, nightlife, clubs and music and drunken confessions. You are a shining star, the scent of your favourite perfume, your most treasured memories crammed into ink and squashed between frames.

Never doubt that you are more.

2013 ©

Im falling apart,
pick a character, play your part.
Its okay darling
Im a lover of the arts.

If you listen carefully enough you can hear her voice break as her words smash off the rocks of her insecurities.

Love like fire
Is a very beautiful and dangerous thing.

Life is a maze,
Some of us get lost along the way.

If you were a book
I would run out of ink underlining all of my favourite things about you.

My anxieties have a way of strangling me
And snatching life from under me
Better than any noose
Ever could

How many opportunities
Do we miss
Because we're too afraid
To take the risk

Why is it so hard
for us to accept ourselves as we are,
and yet so easy to pick out our
imperfections and scars
and allow them to taint and tar,
combine and define
the picture we paint
The person we are,
and the person we believe we should be.
The staged presentation
we allow others to see.

There's no better feeling than waking tangled up in her skin.

Look into my eyes,
There are no lies,
I have nothing to hide,
Allow your worries to subside
And wash away,
In me,
An Ocean of sanctity, security, honesty.

I spent years building up a picture of you
A scenic view
Only to open my eyes and realise
The holes in the cracks
The gaps in the tracks
You'd fell through

You scribbled out my innocence
With poisoned ink
That flowed from your tongue
Lies wrapped in little green ribbons
Tumbling from the corners of your lips
Trickling down your chin
Until eventually,
You started tripping over them.

When every bone in your body aches to be relieved through death, When it hurts to breathe, when the thoughts and ideations of self harm cut you deeper than any blade could and the thought of suicide is one of hope not fear, when the burdens you bear are so heavy you feel them weigh every inch of you down, when you wake up with regret that you made it through another night, when you feel like you're drowning in the millions of tears that have parted from your eyes, and yet you march on anyway, you throw away the pills, you put down the blade, you pick up that fork of food and you eat, you don't turn to a bottle or drugs, you dig deep within yourself for the fight you swore you had run out of months ago and you carry on with life, that is the rawest and most admirable strength there is.

Your insecurities,
all those flaws you believe to be impurities,
are beautiful,
to me.

Most peoples hearts break,
Mine?
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And though we're apart
She promised
To stay tangled up in my heart.

Words can be one of the strongest painkillers.

You cradle my name beautifully
Between your berry red lips.

I had no idea what I was looking for, I just knew that you were it.

When I hold your hand in mine
I have the entire world
At my fingertips.

I would bleed every pen dry
The sun right out of the sky
The truth out of every lie
In a bid to list
all the reasons why
I love you