Elise

Elise Mar 2013

My soul can't tell time
All it knows is that everything is right when your soul is with mine
My soul cannot speak
But..
If my soul could sing
Maybe you would hear it
And come home
Back to me

Elise Mar 2013

Je Suis Le Vent

Take me into your skin
I am the air
Inhale me into your lungs
I’ll help you breathe
Keep me under your wings
And just float

Elise Mar 2013

Darkness

In the absence of light
I traced your outline with my finger tips
Your body seems to whisper
It tells me secrets
That I'll
Never
Forget
~

Elise Mar 2013

East Side of the Island

"Lost soles"
Read the tree

That was hanging
With shoes

Maybe it is our feet that lead us
We all do get lost

I went to a cafe sometime last year that had a shoe lost and found
It always stuck with me how they named it "Lost Soles"

Elise Feb 2013

A Word To The Wise

A word to the wise:
When I tell you that
I woke up at 4 am
It doesn't mean I couldn't sleep
It means I'm miserable
It means I hurt
And I guess I've brought this on myself
Seeing as though I just wanted a hug
But arms are never long enough to reach me
When I need it most
I know I'm awful
And when you tell me to smile
It feels wrong on my mouth sometimes
You seem to get exasperated telling me I look beautiful
In the pictures that I'm taking
Just to show you
I'm together
In my eyes being broken can not touch the face of beauty
And you say its to early to be sad
But you don't know its already been 5
Hours
How I've already fought back tears
While you
Were still asleep
Depression doesn't choose a time of day
Usually
I didn't want to tell you but now the minutes we're apart
Scream
We've been wasted
When all I wanted was a hug
And you just wanted a smile

A slightly different direction

Elise Feb 2013

But maybe I wasn't meant to

I'm no good at remembering how to breathe
I didn't when you kissed me
I didn't when I was told all men die
I didn't when the beauty of the world revealed itself to me
The air caught in my throat
If not I might have spoken and killed the silence that hangs between words

I'm no good at remembering how to breathe

Just maybe, that's how it should be
Life happens between breaths

Elise Feb 2013

Sleep.30w.

As you wrap your arms around me
Breathe into my aching lungs
Reach beneathe my skin
Touch my soul with your fingertips
Leave me with traces of you

NCM