With an expert like flourish of your hand and a deepening crease in between your brows the belt cracks across my face and I close my eyes to accept my fate.
Stormy weather on the sea Tearing us apart everyday Only knowing this kills me Realizing you’re growing faraway Me and you staying together can only mean You and me can sail through any weather
Never taking “no” as an answer, Always swearing we’ll be together. Disguising your tears and trying to hide In the end you never wanted me near. Maybe I was blind and you couldn’t hear
She looked at the world through squinted eyes But the moment she opened her eyes She saw the world in a wide-eyed wonder and She could not be content with squinting anymore
not one of my best, I wrote this last year on my bus ride home
There are flecks of Salt on my tongue, The sea replaces the Blood in my veins, and I can feel the sand on my skin. But the sting of the Air in my lungs remain.
Probably one of my favorite poems I've written and one of the firsts.
Listening to her heartbeat As I lay in our bed Unwise to the shaking of my hands Relaxing into her heat Easing ourselves into the threads Napping sweetly in our own wonderland