I wish I could always feel how I do alone in the woods
I run through the trees breathless
Alive and awake and wild
Consumed by the trees
Every shade of green blinds me
I listen so hard to the birds and bugs and wind that I can't hear my thoughts
So free and reckless and untouched save for the the sun
Some days I think the forest wants to swallow me whole
and sometimes I think I just might let it
To disappear in the soft emerald folds of Nature's body
And just be this free wild thing
It's tempting
If it weren't for the mosquitos
I might just never come back

hey there pretty brown eyes
with your summertime laugh
make me smile 'til my jaw aches

playing with my hands
like you don't even know
how it makes my breath catch

long hair catching the light
liquid sunshine strands
tickles my neck as you lean into me

soft voice like the mountains
calling my name
butterflies hot in my stomach

your perfect lips
catch mine and i can feel your smile
and taste your ice cream kiss

anger is a corset
red and tight
constricting my insides
until i can't breathe

anger is a corset
hot and laced
gasping for air
i can't get it off

anger is a corset
rigid and suffocating
unburden or asphyxiate
i am consumed

my sneakers drum out a rhythm
on the pavement but
running from you is impossible
when every lyric
that blares from my headphones
holds traces of you