I made you a playlist of all my favorite songs
I made you this play list it reminds me of summer love
the one we once had but then faded into fall
I hope that you hear it so you know that I care
I made you this playlist cause i miss you being here .

I am still pulling small fragments of you from my soft skin
Still finding pins of you in small places
Scrubbing until I bleed I still find pieces of you buried
My body rejecting parts of you that I have long ago grown over
Removing splinters that irritate and hurt me
I feel like I have removed all of you
And some new piece gets pushed forward
I can’t wait until I am free of you
Until I push out all of this poison

The moody piano played
The man stood crying in the shower
she closed the door quietly behind her

look in the mirror
what do you see?
ugly
liar
cheater
..or is that only me

look in the mirror
maybe there's more
then this perfect person
you've been striving for

It’s okay to be hurt and it’s okay to be sad.
You can’t be happy all of the time,
That’s a part of life.
I’m sorry that things turned out this way,
You’re between a rock and a hard place
But I’ll help you get out of that hard place, I swear.
Trust me and make me trust you
So that we can help each other.

I remember
sometimes

her voice would quiver

like paper lanterns
dancing in some
foreign nighttime glow

I fancy
sometimes

I knew that sweet tremble

at a tea ceremony table
beneath Chinese skies
many years before

it first caressed my ear