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Apr 2019 · 1.7k
Lotus love
Vanessa Apr 2019
Under the light of the moon.
You’re still a mystery to me.

And every night in my dreams I wonder
if you hear the soundtrack of my soul.
Like I hear yours.

Please know, You’re never alone.
Just continue to bloom.
As I will too.

Until then, I’ll search these
muddy waters for you.
My lotus love.
Apr 2019 · 286
Vanessa Apr 2019
I tick
Tick
Tick
Like the clock upon your wall
Don’t drown me out
Even if you try
I’ll always be there in your head;
The white rabbit of your mind
Dec 2018 · 871
Skin
Vanessa Dec 2018
I want you to
write poems
on my skin
with your hands
Dec 2018 · 200
Stuck
Vanessa Dec 2018
I feel stuck.
Because everyone I love
Is every which way -
And where do you go
When all you want
Is all of them.
In one place.
Dec 2018 · 275
Untitled
Vanessa Dec 2018
Don’t mistake my innocence
For the catalyst in your healing

I am not a bird in a cage
You get to release when
You finally feel free
From the pieces I helped
You glue back together.

Just to whistle me back when
Old wounds always relapse

Craving the morphine of my existence
The cure from the bottle they
Once drank from.

But don’t you forget -
My wings don’t give second chances
For the people who abuse the healers.

Without your second thought
Watch me fly away from your hands
But never coming back.
Dec 2018 · 211
A Reminder
Vanessa Dec 2018
Forgive yourself.
For loving them.
Dec 2018 · 242
Pieces
Vanessa Dec 2018
We are born afraid
Of the shattered pieces that come
Maybe we are supposed to break
For the gold cracks of light
to shine through us.
Dec 2018 · 442
Soil
Vanessa Dec 2018
I don’t want to just
Scratch the surface.
I want to bury myself
with the soil of you.
Dec 2018 · 743
Moon
Vanessa Dec 2018
Tell me stories of the man
Who loved the moon so much
He bared his soul to her every night
Dec 2018 · 262
Waves
Vanessa Dec 2018
The waves of my heart,
Call out to your shore.
Dec 2018 · 944
Warrior
Vanessa Dec 2018
In this sacred place
Within me
Are the eyes I never knew
The wiser version of me
The temple of my soul
Watching over me
Painting out my path
Of who I am
Calling out my name
And who am I?
“Warrior”
Nov 2018 · 863
Smoke
Vanessa Nov 2018
Smoking out my window.
Crisp autumn breeze.
Candle barely alive.
I swear to myself.
I’ll have to let you go.
But just like the smoke I blow out.
It always comes back in.
Oct 2018 · 1.0k
Fire
Vanessa Oct 2018
I’ve searched my whole life.
For the fire that is you.
But every time I’m close
Upon that smoke filled path
I can only play with the white haze
I still can’t face the fire.
The fire that is you.

— The End —