rk - Hello Poetry

rk Jul 2020

juneau

i saw glaciers in your eyes,
icy plains and lost streams.
i felt you fill my lungs
your salt water burning
with each new breath,
drowning in you
with every exhale.

#love #soulmate #lover #friend #consuming #drowning #nature #devotion #missing

rk Jul 2020

pearly dewdrops

i kissed you
and tasted the light of the stars
& the apricot dawn all at once.
your lips had something wild in them
as if you were birthed,
from lightning itself
as if the sea had strung you together
from her most precious pearls.

- it's 6am and i'm falling again.

#love #lost #heartbreak #soulmate #lover #passion #devotion #nature #wild #longing

rk Jul 2020

ancestors

i bathe with charcoal and roses
and spray nettles in my hair,
i cover my body with moon oil
and whisper my secrets to the stars
when i'm silent i can hear them
dancing in my blood
when i feel lost and truly alone
i feel their tender fingers
brushing my hair,
with their gentle voices
singing in my ear

r i s e
sweet child, we are with you
r i s e
sweet child, we will guide you.

#love #nature #truth #ancestors #power #strength #past #memories #emotion

rk Jul 2020

depression cherry

and i loved you
in a golden crescendo
of moonlit sunsets
sweet amber kisses
and honey soaked lips.

- if i welcome death, it is because i know i have loved so intensely that it ate me whole.

#love #lost #heartbreak #soulmate #lover #friend #passion #devotion #kiss #memories

rk Jul 2020

sanctuary

i can no longer remember
your voice with such clarity
when you'd say my name
in those moments
of temptation
yet i have learned
that hands can remember too,
they twitch and burn
feeling for you in the dark
searching for the fingers
that once wrapped around them
like a phantom limb
the memory of you
scorched into them
too deep to be lost.

- each night my soul leaves my body and finds you.

#love #lost #heartbreak #sadness #soulmate #lover #friend #passion #longing #memories

rk Jul 2020

morte

now i understand,
that i have always
been enough

i just wasn't
enough for you.

#love #lost #heartbreak #sadness #soulmate #lover #friend #memories #lonely #pain

rk Jul 2020

scrapped knees

365 sunsets
yet i still remember
how your fingertips
danced along
the curve of my hips,
and how much it hurt
when you walked
out the door.

i guess that is the gift
of feeling too much
there will always be
too many memories
slowly burning,
too many words
to describe how i felt.
forever picking
at the wound,
leaving me aching.

- and i will gladly break it, i will gladly break my heart for you.

#love #heartbreak #soulmate #lover #affection #memories #lost #sadness #pain #heal