a ten word story - Hello Poetry

May 2015

glassea

a ten word story (viii)

sometimes,
i'll try to recall
who i was
before you

it doesn't matter that i never succeed.

May 2015

glassea

a ten word story (vii)

if you're looking for love
she left three years ago

i can give you her cell if you want...?

May 2015

glassea

a ten word story (vi)

it's not enough to feel alive
if you're killing me

May 2015

glassea

a ten word story (v)

irony's got nothing on
this dramatic, overblown
love of ours.

think shakespeare: romeo and juliet, othello and desdemona, hamlet and ophelia. they are not us. we are ten times as mad and a hundred times as passionate.

May 2015

glassea

a ten word story (iv)

i know who we are,
just not who i am.

alternate title: incubus

May 2015

glassea

a ten word story (iii)

you were made
to suffocate
my light.

i let you.

now, it's too dark, but i don't regret it.

May 2015

glassea

a ten word story (ii)

i'm terrified
that i will lose you
to my dreams.

the worst part? they're not nightmares.

May 2015

glassea

a ten word story (i)

apathy
has settled in my bones
and choked my lungs.

(can you hear me?) (i can't.)

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