cass - Hello Poetry

cass Mar 2017

Maybe that's why you forgot me before I left.

cass Mar 2017

Remember when we were kids, and our future careers weren't limited to the two page career option list?
I remember.
We were unlimited potential then.
You and I were just phrases on a chalk board.
But.....
for some reason the dream died.
We got old.
We forgot.
But I,
I still remember.
I'm holding on.
I will not loose the child in me again.
She is unlimited potential.
I will keep her close.

Mar 2017

ren

Sleep

He's an ocean.
He gathers my worried thoughts and tosses them to the breeze;
He carries me through bumpy waves and tempest seas.
When he's near, my insides throw themselves against my skin,
Just to be closer to him,
Just to be closer to him.
And none of it is tragic,
Because when I'm with him my heart beats steady in my chest,
And none of it is sin,
For when my organs need rest,
He lulls me to sleep again.

cass Mar 2017

It's ok

When the world seems to crumble...
remember
hold on
wrap yourself in the warm hands of your loved ones
sleep
learn new things
write
dream
do
become
know there will be more to come
cry
just be
and then one day you will be able to take those photos out
play those songs again
eat at that restaurant
drive down that road
one day
but that's ok if today isn't that day
your ok
you will be ok
I promise

You know those Chinese tea cups? And how if they chip or crack they fix them, by using gold to glue them back together. They highlight the mistake. Illuminate it.

cass Mar 2017

Untitled

So I will write like I promised you. I will let every memory run on the page leaving inky memories
of us
of me
of someone new.

cass Mar 2017

Ends have beginnings too.

I remember the first time you said you loved me.
I remember.
I held to it.
I felt the world tip and sway when you lips finished moving.
You said it.
I remember the first time you told me I was it.
I was the one.
I remember.
It felt as though we were living in sensational color.
We lived for each other.
Your exhale was my inhale.
We held each other like mothers held their babies.
Every moment was spent reveling in new things we had to show each other.
I gave you the parts of me no one had ever seen,
and in return you did the same.
Tears fell from your eyes, I kept every one
every one.
But it ended.
And in some way it ended me too.

cass Feb 2017

Clean

People receive sober chips for staying clean for 24 hours
I've been clean from you for over 72 hours and all I have is a half empty jar of kisses that remind me of you