Let your beauty shine
through this earth-worn shell.

Show your love to all
with this dirt-***** body.

Point others to you with
these ****** hands and
whisper words of comfort
through these cursing lips.

We want to help the broken
and the hurt but
our cold hearts won't melt.

These clouded eyes can't see
past their own sorrows.

You bring the widows and orphans
and watch us stumble past them.

How lost,
how defiled are we,

*Your chosen people.

I will not hurt(you) no more
I will not fake(for you) no more
I will not break(your heart) no more
I simply will not be (yours) no more.

His name melted on my tongue
and was breathed out like a sigh

If the artist were to love the writer
and she him,
surely,
their souls would never
untangle.

i stood on his shores
and marveled at
the thunder and roar
he made when he broke
against the sand.
he drew me in
with a shade of blue
i'd never seen before.
and it was only when
i felt him pull me in
that i remembered,
i don't know how to swim.

He exists in a world
a little higher than hers,
filled with more
colors and shapes
than she could ever
dare to see.
She traces the lines
he created and longs
to feel what he feels,
to taste the same
inexplicable tinge in the air
that he breathes,
But her eyes don't see,
she doesn't feel
and her lungs can never know.
And that's why she
needs him so fiercely,
why she clings so tightly
to her painter.

If it wasn't love,
the hole she felt
in her chest
told her it was
***** close

Thank you
for doing everything right.
You're my favorite story
to tell,
still so surreal to me
that I dare not
defile you with
my clumsy pen and page.
Rest assured,
my soul remembers every detail.
And if life were to
ever bring you back my way,
I'd love you still

If I danced with the sun,
would you curse my shade,
or take care of my shadow?
Let lost things
be rediscovered,
give in to wishing with me.
Taste the height of our adventures as
we race towards heaven
darling.
Learn to love Life,
who has always loved you,
who might love me

It was the time when
                                     you drunk called me
"Just to hear your voice"
              that I noticed you.
It was the time when
                                     we skipped class to lay in bed on that rainy day
"Just to be alone with you"
               that I liked you.
It was the time when
                                     we went grocery shopping & ate dinner in our underwear
"Just to play house with you"
                that I loved you.
It was the time when
                                     we sat in the car & we cried & I begged you
"Just to love me too"
                 that I lost you

Loving you is like
intentionally drinking poison-
foolish and painful.

i
write
to
discover
how
i
really
feel
about
life

If my bones poked more readily
through my skin,
would more men
long to cut themselves
on my edges?

What do you say
when someone asks you to love them forever
and your answer is no?

I can only write
    in
      the
         dark
(Is that odd?)