The burn in your cheek on a cold snow day
The wind blowing in your face
Numbing all of your feelings
Including the ones
You once had for me

Tell me, did you forget?
The snowflakes falling right before our eyes
Like the dreams I had that crashed to the ground
Crowded
Melting
Disappearing

The white surrounding everything
Every sidewalk, every inch
Has it failed to cover up your black heart?

The sky losing its sun
The trees losing their leaves
And you, losing me
Is all I could think of
Remembering that cold December.

Hush little baby, not a smile is shown
A poet is going to write you your own favorite poem

If that poem won’t rhyme
Don’t you cry, it’s not a crime

Why would a baby want a diamond ring?
They would be happy if you just dance and sing

What’s there to see with a looking glass?
Everything you’ve ever loved will never last

The only thing that will break is your heart
Might as well give up now and fall apart

Baby, do you want a cart and bull?
Nothing will make that emptiness full

Rover will die, and then you’ll cry
Everyone eventually will, including you and I

Your horse and cart will fall down
As well as your dreams, shattering all over town.

The silence now pierces my soul
Grieve is a grey mist in the air
Like a funeral with four people
Burying their respective
Broken promises

The way you conquer me
In a bottle of wine
Like I was an object
Made out of clay
So easy to form
Into a doll
Or a ball

You taught me people make mistakes
In the name of love
And how pain feels
When you refuse to kiss the scars
You have made

The way my voice shivers
When I say no
The way my hands shake
Like a paper not finding its way
Back to the novel it belongs to

I keep having dreams
Of finding wounds on my hands
And glass shards
I realize
I do not miss your touch
Printing me to be yours
A property of glass
Everything that you have
Put together in me
Is shattered now
My glass hands
My glass heart

Your voice makes me weep
Because what once was magic to me
Now makes me bleed in despair
Breathing you is poison
Distance was never a hinder
Although now I wish it was

Everyone can see it in my eyes
The crack, the glass
Everyone can see the broken in me
A woman so broken
I bleed shattered glass
And ink

Somehow, you will always smell like home
And I will always lose myself in you
With you, I wrote love poems
And now, sad poems too.

Somehow the pain in my chest is always synchronous with
The times you refused to say you love me
Like there are two identical sides of sorrow
One you give, and one you cause me to be

What I need is love, as clear as the city lights
Reflecting like a painting on the sea
A love so loud, a melody, even the deaf could hear

I need to be loved like the sunset is on fire
Or the birds fall off the sky
There’s no time to be infinite
All we have is now

If in your future
Between the cars, the towers
My face to you is unclear
Just close your regrets with your eyes
Remember, I have always tried to be here

Silence was overwhelming
The tension was in the air
As if we were in a warzone
And no one wanted to be the first to give up
But for us, neither of us wanted to give up
Promises that we will never leave

The way you broke that silence
You shattered the glass everywhere
And what left your mouth were not words
But a warm breeze on a cold night
That melted the ice cubes
Residing in my heart

You taught me love is not a mistake
And how love feels when you kiss my hand
The way your voice sounds
When you tell me I’m a gift sent from above
And that we are meant to be
With words that belong to a poem
Now found their way to me

When you touched me,
I felt like a flower that blossomed
Emerged between the cracks
And everything that has fell apart in me
Somehow fell back together
As if your hands were made out of glue
And my body is a puzzle piece
Nobody told me that being in love with you
Is better than all novels

I want you to send me your voice in a postcard
So I can hang it next to the flower you once gave me
I want to breathe you, I want to feel you
Because distance is overrated, beauty is overrated
But love, love is above all ratings

Everyone can see you in my eyes,
Soaked in my skin
As clear as a tattoo
Everyone can see how I am a woman in love
A woman inked with love
Inked with you

I always want to tell you
How you smell like home
Like something that got lost along the way
And I’m mostly not good
With love poems
But with you, somehow.
I always have something to say.

You detach me from myself
Like a two hours nap
And I cannot tame
The demons inside of me
Carving your name
In the walls of my skin

The tears on my pillow
Are the only wet dreams
That I have
Because everything
We ever were
Now tattoos my cheeks
With sorrow

I cannot comprehend
How you like to squeeze my heart
Like a little stress ball
And I would go back
To hand it to you
All over again
Every single time
Your lips whisper
“Stay”

How are we stuck?
In this endless cycle
Of me, loving you
And you, using this love
To read the lines in my palm
And to keep me crazy enough
To love you
And sane enough
To cry because I do

Have you ever wandered to the beach
But didn't get to see the shore?
Have you ever spent centuries trying to sleep
Although the sun, never have risen anymore
Have the walls within you shattered like a bullet through a glasshouse, but you failed to make a noise?

I once had a dream
I have visited the black long dresses people I once loved at my funeral
I tried to escape but the flowers they have laid above my casket formed an unbrokable shield
A sadness so deep with it's no longer a feeling but a madness with no cure for
You poured salt over the wounds i seeked for you to heal

Grab my hand
Pull me away from this sea
I'm drowning though I once knew how to swim
Pull me away from my misery
Cure this insanity residing within
Rescue me, I cannot stand on my own two feet

Rescue me, have me yours to keep.