C Phillips

C Phillips Jan 2013

Exposed

My three words whispered
leave your heart
knowing,
how to let mine go

C Phillips Jan 2013

One day

i need to know that
i will one day
feel whole,
despite the distance between

C Phillips Jan 2013

...
Destroy the weeds
that bury
your happiness,

awake your heart
...

C Phillips Jan 2013

Breadcrumbs

Now I feel ashamed for
using up all the happy
to try and create
what you only held
with your fingertips

C Phillips Jan 2013

I cannot pretend
that you would fit perfectly
with my grey existence
for you,
that is, all of you,
would make everything

so
unbelievably
colourful.

C Phillips Jan 2013

...

Memories of you
whisper forth
sweet smiles

i cannot control

...

C Phillips Jan 2013

Nothing

Unspoken sentences carry the weight
of heavy syllables that
yearn to be unleashed
b
u
r
n
i
n
g
holes into pages,

Its all better
left unsaid.