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45 · Oct 2020
VII
callie joseph Oct 2020
VII
you are love
set me on fire
you have haunted me
with your desire
i'm finally real again
44 · Aug 2020
it’s time
callie joseph Aug 2020
to listen to novo amour
to submerge my many
identities convening like bubbles
under the beating of the rain
and let them sink
to the bottom of the sea

to listen to novo amour
and open my soul to the air
red and bruises
like the ones on my knees
i belong on the concrete
or beneath it

to listen to novo amour
and let my hairs matt
twisting and black like the thoughts
raging in my fingertips
and never turn on the shower

to listen to novo amour
to never ever ever leave my room
leave my bed
leave my ceiling
to never stop being sad
and never stop listening
43 · Jun 2020
4 am
callie joseph Jun 2020
The cotton of tender sleep
stings as it is pulled from my eyelids
warm, dry breath,
my head hurts, looking to the ceiling
she's in my room.
Mother.
She couldn't sleep again.
43 · Jun 2020
if i'm in love with you
callie joseph Jun 2020
why do you scare me so much?
why am i so afraid
42 · Aug 2020
it
callie joseph Aug 2020
it
spread like disease
uttered beneath a breath
and every atom collected it
filling
and darted in a moment
to the trees
telling the secret
to the sky and it rained down
into the minds of men
and
made its way
to the masses
but
what's it
to you
callie joseph Jun 2020
while lights flashed around her
she was happy in every broken way
41 · Aug 2020
you saw the words
callie joseph Aug 2020
and now you'll never be hurt again
41 · Aug 2020
i live
callie joseph Aug 2020
for the moment
i will start singing
in the shower
again
40 · Mar 2020
on death
callie joseph Mar 2020
beneath cross crossing black roots
they descend
our nutrients their sustenance
our bodies back to the earth
ashes to ashes

we sank slowly
first in a white dress
blowing the dew stained daisies
and then
the ground got greedy
and ate us whole
39 · Aug 2020
i learned a secret
callie joseph Aug 2020
about my lover
last night
that i shan’t share
become if i was
to disclose
the truth of her
beauty
the guilty would
throw themselves and converge
in their masses at her
holy feet
their sole redemption
and this truth
the only
precious truth of the heavens
is that i love her so
39 · Jun 2020
impulsivity
callie joseph Jun 2020
is the enemy of progress
******* up, to prove a point, is never worth it
37 · Jun 2020
to the gals
callie joseph Jun 2020
don't settle with an aura,
when
we have atmospheres.
35 · Jun 2020
when you have anxiety
callie joseph Jun 2020
it often takes more courage to fail
than to succeed
I just failed. yay me.


SUCCESS IS DEFINED BY HAPPINESS
35 · Jun 2020
you are a god
callie joseph Jun 2020
raving eyes and riots
extend ferociously
beaming from your veins
you command a height
you are the universe
experiencing itself
you are war

and peace
coolness and balm
if only you'd allow it

let it settle itself
my little wildfire

— The End —